Windows 10: New ALERT Issued to MILLIONS of Users

Windows 10 has a new alert issued for millions of users who use the operating system, here's what Homeland Security recommends you do now.

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Windows 10 unfortunately, there is a new alert issued to hundreds of millions of users worldwide due to a very serious problem that has been discovered for computers running the operating system. We are talking about a new vulnerability for Windows 10 that leaves users open to hacker attacks, and the situation is as serious as it can be, unfortunately, which raises many question marks regarding security.

Windows 10 has this alert issued by those from Homeland Security, yes the famous American federal agency, a division within it, considering that the operating system has a huge security breach that needs to be resolved. Those from Microsoft have recently released a series of updates that solve no less than 87 vulnerabilities discovered in Windows 10, including one that Homeland Security says is very dangerous.

Windows 10: New ALERT Issued to MILLIONS of Users

Windows 10 has the vulnerability identified among the several dozens of vulnerabilities that have been closed by those from Microsoft already, so if you have a PC with this operating system, it would be good to solve your problems very quickly. Homeland Security says that closing this vulnerability in Windows 10 should be done urgently by computer users, so you should install the updates from Microsoft right now, if they are still available.

“Microsoft has released security updates to fix remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting the Windows Codecs Library and Visual Studio Code. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) encourages users and administrators to review Microsoft's security advisories for CVE-2020-17022 and CVE-2020-17023 and apply the necessary updates.”

Windows 10 has security patches released every month, the purpose of which is to solve various vulnerabilities that are discovered, and now we are talking about the same thing, which needs to be solved urgently by users. Microsoft did its job, and brought the situation back to normal, but it is also necessary for people to install updates for Windows 10 so that they remain safe, because Microsoft solves problems for nothing, if people do not install their patches.

Windows 10 in 2019 it had a lot of security and performance problems, but now Microsoft is trying to solve everything as quickly as possible so that users are not too affected by unforeseen situations.