Multiple U.S. Government agencies are urging Windows 10 users to update as soon as possible
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When the technical director of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) Cybersecurity Directorate, and the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), both urge Windows 10 users to take action and update as soon as possible, you might suspect that something serious has happened.
You would be right.
As I predicted in an article called "New Windows 10 ‘Extraordinarily Serious’ Security Warning For 900 Million Users," published early yesterday morning, the monthly Patch Tuesday update from Microsoft disclosed a particularly concerning vulnerability in Windows 10.
Even before Microsoft itself disclosed the details of CVE-2020-0601, a Windows CryptoAPI spoofing vulnerability, the NSA had confirmed the importance of both the flaw and the fix. Anne Neuberger, director of the NSA Cybersecurity Directorate, warned that the issue "makes trust vulnerable."
Indeed, it was the NSA itself that discovered the vulnerability and reported it to Microsoft. This is, Neuberger confirmed, the first time that the NSA had publicly disclosed a vulnerability to a software vendor.
Now another U.S. Government agency has boarded the vulnerability warning battle-bus and urged Windows 10 users to apply the Patch Tuesday updates as soon as possible. CISA, via the National Cyber Awareness System, has published an alert titled " government issues critical windows update alert
