Ramblings of an old Doc

 

Look for and make sure you update your Windows when you get this emergency patch to an exploit allowing remote code execution.

The flaw was discovered when a horde of emails leaked after a breach of an Italian surveillance vendor Hacking Team…which is less than above board:

“The Milan-based vendor sells surveillance software to governments and corporations, and markets zero-day vulnerabilities that its clients can use to silently infect targets with the firm's software.”- Gregg Keizer

The MS flaw is in the Windows Adobe Type Manager Library, which handles the rendering of OpenType fonts, a format co-created by Microsoft and Adobe. The update patch is MS15-078.

You can read more here: Computerworld.

Source:

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2949589/malware-vulnerabilities/microsoft-patches-windows-zero-day-found-in-hacking-teams-leaked-docs.html


Comments
on Jul 20, 2015

Nice.

Thx, Doc.  Hadn't been offered up on 2 of my rigs so went & fetched it.