DHS Recommending MS Patch

Posted on by Peter Hesse

If you hadn’t already seen, the Department of Homeland Security is strongly recommending the patch related to Microsoft’s MS06-040 bulletin.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is recommending that Windows Operating Systems users apply Microsoft security patch MS06-040 as quickly as possible. This security patch is designed to protect against a vulnerability that, if exploited, could enable an attacker to remotely take control of an affected system and install programs, view, change, or delete data, and create new accounts with full user rights.

Kind of gives me the creeps. They don’t normally recommend specific patches, so why this one?

One thought on “DHS Recommending MS Patch”

  1. Anil says:
    August 18, 2006 at 1:09 pm

    I thought the same thing…it is hard to tell with the DHS. Are they trying to ‘branch’ out and cover more IT/tech stuff – or is there something they know and we don’t?

    Either way, always a good idea to keep your patches up to date.

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