A bug in the latest version of Windows 10 slows down PCs – Geeko
As usual, Microsoft publishes its monthly corrective patch. For this edition of August 2020, the Patch Tuesday comes to seal no less than 120
vulnerabilities within Windows. Seventeen of these are considered “critical”, the maximum level of severity for
Microsoft.
And if the American company fixes these security breaches, it comes a little late for some. Two flaws were indeed identified and exploited by hackers long before Microsoft offered a fix. We speak of “zero-day” vulnerabilities in this case.
A loophole known to hackers
The first zero-day security flaw is found in the Windows operating system. By exploiting this bug, an ill-intentioned person could “bypass security devices and load badly signed files”, specifies the Redmond firm, which would allow it to usurp an identity.
The second “zero-day” breach concerns Internet Explorer and more precisely its script engine. Kaspersky cybersecurity researchers have warned Microsoft that hackers had detected a flaw that allowed them to execute code remotely in the Internet Explorer script engine. The vulnerability also appears to be present in other native Microsoft applications, including the Office suite.
If Microsoft has confirmed that certain vulnerabilities had been exploited before the publication of patches, the American company does not share the technical details concerning them, in order to avoid making the job easier for hackers. Microsoft obviously invites its users to install security patch of the month.
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