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Although you'll get the patch if you perform a full Patch Tuesday download and let the update complete. The full patch involves updating Microsoft's bootup code in your hard disk's startup partition, and then telling your motherboard not to trust the old, insecure bootup code any more.

For Microsoft Edge, deleting specific cookies requires a deep dive into the Settings menu. Now, from the right-hand list of settings, select the Manage and delete cookies and site data item.

In a new report by Cisco Talos, researchers explain how the Greatness phishing platform launched in mid-2022, with a spike in activity in December 2022 and then again in March 2023. The phishing service will automatically inject the target's company logo and background image from the employer's actual Microsoft 365 login page.

Microsoft has rolled out Patch Tuesday updates for May 2023 to address 38 security flaws, including one zero-day bug that it said is being actively exploited in the wild. Eight of the flaws have been tagged with "Exploitation More Likely" assessment by Microsoft.

Your humble vulture is a glass-half-empty-and-who-the-hell-drank-my-whiskey kind of bird, so instead of looking on the bright side, we're looking at the two Microsoft bugs that have already been found and exploited by miscreants. The two that are under active exploit, at least according to Microsoft, are CVE-2023-29336, a Win32k elevation of privilege vulnerability; and CVE-2023-24932, a Secure Boot security feature bypass vulnerability, which was exploited by the BlackLotus bootkit to infect Windows machines.

Microsoft is hoping to curb a growing threat to multi-factor authentication by enforcing a number-matching step for those using Microsoft Authenticator push notifications when signing into services. In October 2022, Microsoft introduced number matching as an option, as well as other security features like location and application context, in Microsoft Authenticator.

For May 2023 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has delivered fixes for 38 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, including a patch for a Windows bug and a Secure Boot bypass flaw exploited by attackers in the wild. "Historically, we've seen three separate examples where Win32k EoP vulnerabilities were exploited as zero days. In January 2022, Microsoft patched CVE-2022-21882, which was exploited in the wild and is reportedly a patch bypass for CVE-2021-1732, which was patched in February 2021 and also exploited in the wild. In October 2021, Microsoft patched another Win32k EoP, identified as CVE-2021-40449, which was linked to a remote access trojan known as MysterySnail, which was a patch bypass for CVE-2016-3309. However, it is unclear if this flaw is a patch bypass."

Microsoft has released security updates to address a Secure Boot zero-day vulnerability exploited by BlackLotus UEFI malware to infect fully patched Windows systems. According to a Microsoft Security Response Center blog post, the security flaw was used to bypass patches released for CVE-2022-21894, another Secure Boot bug abused in BlackLotus attacks last year.

Microsoft has released security updates to address a Secure Boot zero-day vulnerability exploited by BlackLotus UEFI malware to infect fully patched Windows systems. According to a Microsoft Security Response Center blog post, the security flaw was used to bypass patches released for CVE-2022-21894, another Secure Boot bug abused in BlackLotus attacks last year.

Today is Microsoft's May 2023 Patch Tuesday, and security updates fix three zero-day vulnerabilities and a total of 38 flaws. Today's Patch Tuesday is one of the smallest in terms of resolved vulnerabilities, with only thirty-eight vulnerabilities fixed, not including eleven Microsoft Edge vulnerabilities fixed last week, on May 5th. Three zero-days fixed.