{"id":5336,"date":"2021-05-13T08:43:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T12:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=5336"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:16:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:16:14","slug":"microsofts-patch-tuesday-fixes-55-flaws-3-zero-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/microsofts-patch-tuesday-fixes-55-flaws-3-zero-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s Patch Tuesday Fixes 55 Flaws, 3 Zero-days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Microsoft has fixed a total of 55 vulnerabilities after the three zero-day vulnerabilities were recently discovered and patched on Microsoft&#8217;s Patch Tuesday in May 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three zero-day vulnerabilities have been publicly disclosed but are not known to be used in attacks or exploited in the wild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Threat actors are expected to analyze the patches to create exploits for the vulnerabilities, with the vulnerability likely to be more exploited for Microsoft exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is therefore recommended that security updates be implemented as soon as possible. Of the 55 vulnerabilities fixed, four were rated critical, 50 important, and one moderate.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/microsoft-may-2021-patch-tuesday-fixes-55-flaws-3-zero-days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Bleeping Computer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has fixed a total of 55 vulnerabilities after the three zero-day vulnerabilities were recently discovered and patched on Microsoft&#8217;s Patch Tuesday in May 2021. The three zero-day vulnerabilities have been publicly disclosed but are not known to be used in attacks or exploited in the wild. Threat actors are expected to analyze the patches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-5336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5358,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5336\/revisions\/5358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}