Security News > 2018 > February > Microsoft Won't Patch a Severe Skype Vulnerability Anytime Soon
2018-02-14 10:03
A serious vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft-owned most popular free web messaging and voice calling service Skype that could potentially allow attackers to gain full control of the host machine by granting system-level privileges to a local, unprivileged user. The worst part is that this vulnerability will not be patched by Microsoft anytime soon. It's not because the flaw is
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