BlueKeep freakout had little to no impact on patching, say experts

BlueKeep freakout had little to no impact on patching, say experts

Admins snoozing on patching despite reports of active attacks


The flurry of reports in recent weeks of in-the-wild exploits for the Windows RDP 'BlueKeep' security flaw had little impact among those responsible for patching, it seems.


This according to researchers with the SANS Institute, who have been tracking the rate of patching for the high-profile vulnerability over the last several months and, via Shodan, monitoring the number of internet-facing machines that have the remote desktop flaw exposed.


First disclosed in May of this year, BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708) describes a bug in the Windows Remote Desktop Protocol that allows an attacker to ..

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