{"id":512,"date":"2012-03-29T01:07:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T01:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2012-03-29T01:07:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T01:07:43","slug":"microsoft-releases-critical-windows-update-to-patch-vulnerability-in-remote-desktop-protocol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/microsoft-releases-critical-windows-update-to-patch-vulnerability-in-remote-desktop-protocol\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Releases Critical Windows Update to Patch Vulnerability in Remote Desktop Protocol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-538\" title=\"blog-life-preserver\" src=\"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/blog_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/blog-life-preserver.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"217\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Late last month, Microsoft released <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/bulletin\/ms12-020\" target=\"_blank\">Security Bulletin MS12-020<\/a>, a &#8220;Critical&#8221; level system patch which resolves a Windows system vulnerability through which remote attackers could gain access to affected computers.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability, which concerns Microsoft&#8217;s Remote Desktop service (&#8220;RDP&#8221;),<strong> affects all versions of Windows; unpatched systems that have RDP turned on are at risk of remote attack.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the time of release of the patch, Microsoft believed that a successful exploit utilizing the RDP vulnerability would be developed by hackers within a month; however, a bare-bones attack program, capable of locking up or crashing target computers, was released &#8220;into the wild&#8221; <strong>the same day the patch was released<\/strong>, surfacing on a Chinese website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Island Technologies urges all Windows users to take the following steps immediately:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Make sure Remote Desktop is turned off<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Apply the Windows System patch<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As always, Island Technologies&#8217; Tech Support Team is here to help &#8212; if you have any questions or concerns about this Critical Windows vulnerability, please give us a call at <strong>(818) 832-2310<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last month, Microsoft released Security Bulletin MS12-020, a &#8220;Critical&#8221; level system patch which resolves a Windows system vulnerability through which remote attackers could gain access to affected computers. The vulnerability, which concerns Microsoft&#8217;s Remote Desktop service (&#8220;RDP&#8221;), affects all versions of Windows; unpatched systems that have RDP turned on are at risk of remote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/microsoft-releases-critical-windows-update-to-patch-vulnerability-in-remote-desktop-protocol\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,73,77,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-solutions","category-security","category-services","category-tech-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}