CISA issues emergency warning over critical Windows vulnerability

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has taken the extraordinary steps of issuing an emergency alert about a critical vulnerability in Windows. CISA issued the warning to government departments, saying it "has determined that this vulnerability poses an unacceptable risk to the Federal Civilian Executive Branch and requires an immediate and emergency action". With Emergency Directive 20-04, the CISA requires agencies to install the August 2020 Security Update to mitigate against a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Netlogon Remote Protocol. See also: Microsoft acknowledges that Windows 10 KB4568831 update is crashing Lenovo ThinkPads Microsoft is forcing the new Edge on users… [Continue Reading]