{"id":56877,"date":"2017-04-17T08:31:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T13:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=56877"},"modified":"2017-04-17T08:31:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T13:31:07","slug":"microsoft-patched-nsa-exploits-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/microsoft-patched-nsa-exploits-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Patched NSA Exploits Before Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Microsoft Patched Exploits<\/h4>\n<p>There has been a lot of news swirling around, claiming the published exploits stolen from the NSA can be used against current Microsoft products. \u00a0According to <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2017\/04\/purported-shadow-brokers-0days-were-in-fact-killed-by-mysterious-patch\/\">ArsTechnica<\/a>, that is not the case. \u00a0Instead, Microsoft patched the exploits a month prior to the exploits being published. \u00a0However, this is causing major speculation. \u00a0Did the NSA tip off Microsoft, giving them time to patch the vulnerabilities? \u00a0Or was this merely a remarkable coincidence?<\/p>\n<h4>Moving Forward<\/h4>\n<p>As long as the PCs have been updated with Microsoft&#8217;s latest update, they will be secure. \u00a0One concern is for the larger corporations, which typically test the updates for some time before releasing them company wide. \u00a0For any organizations who have yet to complete the Microsoft update, companywide, needs to consider implementing the update immediately. \u00a0These exploits are now in the wild, for cyber criminals to do with them what they want. \u00a0Be proactive, and stay protected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Patched Exploits There has been a lot of news swirling around, claiming the published exploits stolen from the NSA can be used against current Microsoft products. \u00a0According to ArsTechnica, that is not the case. \u00a0Instead, Microsoft patched the exploits a month prior to the exploits being published. \u00a0However, this is causing major speculation. \u00a0Did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":55738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[125,4497],"class_list":["post-56877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips","tag-microsoft","tag-nsa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Microsoft Patched NSA Exploits Before Release<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Despite popular belief, Microsoft patched the stolen NSA exploits a month before they were published. 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