{"id":1336,"date":"2008-01-20T08:20:42","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T01:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2008-01-20T08:20:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T01:20:42","slug":"don%e2%80%99t-dawdle-on-microsoft-latest-batch-of-patches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/don%e2%80%99t-dawdle-on-microsoft-latest-batch-of-patches\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t dawdle on Microsoft latest batch of patches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re like most folks you are taking your time installing Microsoft\u2019s latest round of security patches. However, you may want to get your rear end in gear.Specifically apply <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/security\/bulletin\/MS08-001.mspx\">MS08-001<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/security\/?p=790\">which was released on Jan. 8<\/a>. That patch fixed a Transmission Control Protocol\/Internet Protocol (TCP\/IP) processing vulnerability that was critical for XP and Vista.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability if left unpatched could lead to a worm attack. <a href=\"http:\/\/securitywatch.eweek.com\/exploits_and_attacks\/ms08001_open_door_for_the_next_big_windows_worm.html\">Ryan Naraine interviews<\/a> the hacker that brought the bug to Microsoft last August and the details are worrisome.<\/p>\n<p>read the rest of this <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/security\/?p=817&amp;tag=nl.e540\">article here\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re like most folks you are taking your time installing Microsoft\u2019s latest round of security patches. However, you may want to get your rear end in gear.Specifically apply MS08-001, which was released on Jan. 8. That patch fixed a Transmission Control Protocol\/Internet Protocol (TCP\/IP) processing vulnerability that was critical for XP and Vista. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,35,29,30,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-scams-and-hoaxes","category-spam","category-spyware","category-viruses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}