Microsoft Releases RPC Patch Out of Cycle

      by Wyatt Walter

Today Microsoft released a very important patch. It’s very rare that they deviate from their standard patch schedule and this patch was apparently one of those rare cases. The problem is reported to affect file sharing through the Windows Server service using a flaw in their implementation of RPC. Windows systems from Windows 2000 to Vista and even Server 2008 are vulnerable. If you are unfortunate enough to to be running Windows, please patch right away. I’m not a doom-and-gloom kind of guy, but when discussing RPC zero-day vulnerabilities, all I have to mention is “Blaster worm”. The update can be found via Windows Update.

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