Microsoft has decided to disable a 17-year-old video codec in older versions of Windows rather than patch multiple vulnerabilities, according to the company s security team. The bugs rate 10 out of 10 on the vulnerability-severity scale, thanks to the ease of exploitation. 83 percent of the Top 30 U.S. retailers have vulnerabilities which pose an imminent cyber-threat, including Amazon, Costco, Kroger and Walmart. Read the full article here.
Source: https://threatpost.com/rare-move-ms-disables-old-code-121109/73249/