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Security updates releases on Microsoft: Ransomware discovered a wormable threat similar to WannaCry

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Microsoft has taken many steps to release the security updates for widely-used Windows operating systems like Windows 2003 and XP. The organization took this move as a part of its May 14 Patch Tuesday, due to the discovery of a  wormable threat  that could be a major threat similar to the WannaCry ransomware attacks of 2017. The WannaCry ransomware threat was quick to spread across the world in May 2017 due to the vulnerability that was widespread among devices running older versions of Windows and Windows XP. On May 14, Microsoft released 16 updates that target at least 79 security issues in the software and the Windows. Now let’s have a look at the CVE-2019-0708, CVE-2019-0863, and vulnerabilities. Remote desktop services vulnerability- CVE-2019-0708 The CVE-2019-0708 vulnerability is in remote desktop services into supported versions of Windows, including Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008. It is present in devices powered by Windows 2003 a...