NSA Warns Microsoft Windows Users: Update Now Or Face 'Devastating Damage'

From Forbes: I can't recall ever seeing the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) jumping in and warning users of Microsoft Windows to check if their systems are fully patched and, if not, to update now or risk a "devastating" and "wide-ranging impact." But that's what has just happened.

In an advisory published this week, the NSA has urged "Microsoft Windows administrators and users to ensure they are using a patched and updated system in the face of growing threat." That threat being BlueKeep, which has already been the focus of multiple "update now" warnings from Microsoft itself.

The NSA warning comes off the back of research that revealed just under one million internet-facing machines are still vulnerable to BlueKeep on port 3389, used by the Microsoft Remote Desktop feature, with nobody knows how many devices at risk within the internal networks beyond. The potential is certainly there for this threat, if exploited, to be on the scale of WannaCry.

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