{"id":8381,"date":"2015-07-21T19:21:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T02:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riguy.com\/?p=8381"},"modified":"2015-07-21T19:24:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T02:24:03","slug":"critical-windows-security-flaw-and-fix-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/?p=8381","title":{"rendered":"Critical Windows Security Flaw and Fix Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released a major Critical Windows Security Flaw and fix. By critical, I mean they went outside of their normally rigid &#8216;patch Tuesday&#8217; [twice a month] schedule and released this fix on-the-fly, so to speak.<\/p>\n<p>From Mashable:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;The flaw is in the way the Windows Adobe Type Manager Library handles OpenType fonts. In practical terms, if someone running Windows visits a website that contains embedded OpenType fonts or a specially crafted document, an attacker could execute code on his or her computer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights,&#8221; Microsoft wrote in a security bulletin.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Windows update tool in modern Windows OS can handle this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/07\/21\/microsoft-windows-patch-critical-flaw\/\">Critical Windows Security Flaw + Fix Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released a major Critical Windows Security Flaw and fix. By critical, I mean they went outside of their normally rigid &#8216;patch Tuesday&#8217; [twice a month] schedule and released this fix on-the-fly, so to speak. From Mashable: &#8220;The flaw is in the way the Windows Adobe Type Manager Library handles OpenType fonts. In practical &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riguy.com\/?p=8381\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Critical Windows Security Flaw and Fix Released&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[371,291],"tags":[391,301,481],"class_list":["post-8381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-windows-10","tag-cybersecurity","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-8-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8391,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381\/revisions\/8391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}