Is Microsoft Playing Us?

why don't we jump right into our first topic of the week which is of course the Wi-Fi takeover attack that has got all windows users being warned to update now Microsoft has confirmed a new and pretty alarming Wi-Fi vulnerability in Windows which has been rated 8.8 isn't that great out of 10 in terms of severity using the common vulnerability scoring system the vulnerability assigned as cve 2024 D3 00078 very memorable does not require an attacker to have physical access to the targeted computer although physical proximity is needed since it uses Wi-Fi and exploiting this vulnerability can allow an unauthenticated attacker to gain remote code execution permissions on the impacted device that's bad that's super bad so they can just execute code very bad very bad all window all windows versions what do you mean by all windows versions you mean like 10 and 11 do you don't mean 95 do you because I don't think that has Wi-Fi could you make that work somebody's probably somebody's probably done it don't don't don't tempt them yeah hack a day and those people you know what those people do they said it couldn't be done so I so I committed six years of my life to getting working like Apple Air tag find my support on Windows 3.1 like we we know we that's I believe you I believe you do something productive I think it's like all reasonably modern um what do you mean those people you know who I'm talking about I did read a warning somewhere that they were saying if you're running like not currently supported versions of Windows that you might want to you know upgrade your windows because those are ALS so impacted ooh so this is big update I was kind of big update conspiracy the lot of this a lot of this kind of especially the like advice from Microsoft it's just like actually I I suspect it's less conspiracy theory and more not giving a about it's like yeah we told you it wasn't supported come on figure it out get on with it but you could tell there's a it felt like there's a little bit of come on in Waters you can move the Windows button over to the left and bring back the show the desktop thing come on in the search sucks and there's ads everywhere oh my God you got wrecked with that I heard it happen all right so let's continue on with this yeah Microsoft has confirmed that with no special access conditions or extenda circumstances none of those are needed apart from the proximity requirement an attacker could expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component Microsoft also warrants that an attacker require re Ires no authentication as a user before exploiting this vulnerability nor any access to settings or files on the victim's machine before carrying out the attack furthermore the user of the targeted device does not need to interact at all there is no link to click no image to load no file to execute now I wanted to add at the end we're not Security Experts nope especially not me Jake sent this in the infrastructure chat like 20 minutes before we went live and I was just like this is breaking news looks serious if you're interested in this you should find like Security Experts online or something and read what they have to say about it we don't know much about it we just read it right before the show thanks Forbes whatever just go update your system come back if you want to learn more check somebody else out that's it

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Length: 3min 48sec (228 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 18 2024