92 pointsby robin_reala9 hours ago12 comments
  • JSTuckera minute ago
    If you want an easy way to view these I made https://wofa.dev to keep track of windows updates and security patches in a single place
  • dhxan hour ago
    Title is not correct. Microsoft didn't patch a lot of this, they're reporting patches for dependencies that other people patched and Microsoft are inheriting.

    For example, Mariner (now branded Azure Linux) is a Microsoft-supported Linux distribution. So in this list of 570 vulnerabilities, Microsoft have reported 100 vulnerabilities inherited from all sorts of open source software projects included in their Azure Linux distribution. The OpenSSH vulnerabilities are described in better detail at https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html where it implies 2 vulnerabilities were detected with Swival Security Scanner (using LLMs) and another 6 by other researchers/companies (using undisclosed methods).

    As an example of one of the OpenSSH vulnerabilites CVE-2026-59996 which is attributed to Swival Security Scanner, Swival have published the output of their automated vulnerability detection report at https://github.com/Swival/security-audits/blob/main/openssh/...

  • charonn06 hours ago
    It seems like bug hunting might be the one area where AI is actually making the world a better place.
    • beebmam2 hours ago
      99.9% of people complaining about AI making the world a worse place would be fully happy with AI if they shared in the economic benefits of automation.
      • azinman2an hour ago
        Not if it ends up deskilling society and taking away what brings us meaning in life.
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        • ivell34 minutes ago
          I don't see why AI would deskill what you love to do. People still do embroidery even though mass manufacturing exists. If you love something you would continue doing it irrespective of automation.
          • wood_spirit7 minutes ago
            For a lot of people it’s not the job that is rewarding it the role having a job gives them in life and home life. Financially contributing to the household through earning it through work is a meaningful and rewarding thing that can define the near total of how good you feel about yourself thing even if you don’t like the job?
          • ares62330 minutes ago
            Yes. I love eating pieces of string. I'm partial to wool myself, really filling.

            I suppose you're a cake enjoyer, miss Marie Antoinette?

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      • parineum41 minutes ago
        I've been benefitting from automation my entire life. I don't see why anything would change when that automation is driven by language models.
    • ashleyn5 hours ago
      How many were introduced by misuse of AI coding/vibe coding though?
      • miffy9004 hours ago
        highly unlikely for many of them. SharePoint, bitlocker, Active directory, hyper-v, rdp, DHCP and MSMQ are all software/technologies that have decades of history and long pre-dated LLMs. seriously, do people not realise it was entirely possible to write insecure or bad code before LLMs?
        • shakna3 hours ago
          Sure, that's true.

          It is also true that Copilot is currently in use developing Bitlocker and Sharepoint. So I wouldn't be confident saying it was one or the other.

        • pjmlpan hour ago
          Especially if they made heavy use of offshoring, which I would bet they did.
      • DANmode5 hours ago
        How many were known, and put on the roadmap because war got hot?
      • stackghost5 hours ago
        At Microslop? Evidently, lots.
  • fuckinpuppers3 hours ago
    This is great. Now ask Mythos to make windows suck less and let it go crazy.
  • ReactiveJelly3 hours ago
    They should patch that Global Device ID thing

    :^)

  • devin2 hours ago
    How many are chained, and how many patches are defense-in-depth after discovering chained paths to that flaw?
  • freitasm6 hours ago
    I wonder how many bugs will be introduced with these fixes...
    • hulitu2 hours ago
      They don't introduce bugs. They introduce feature experiences.
      • gredan hour ago
        Emergent product roadmap in action.
    • ronsor6 hours ago
      No bugs, only intentional backdoors
  • lousken6 hours ago
    It would be nice if microsoft had windows update for .net, visual c++, office, windows, edge ... just all their software in one updater, but that would be too easy...
    • netsharc6 hours ago
      Isn't that... Windows Update? At least last time I looked it would update .net runtimes, Office, what else? OK, Visual Studio has its own update mechanism. Edge is part of the OS, isn't it?
      • miffy9004 hours ago
        it's still an opt-in setting though. Windows and OS-components like drivers and Edge do get auto updated yes, but to enable Microsoft Update, you still need to turn on a setting in the Settings app. even setting up a new PC/laptop with windows, this is off by default.
      • ihsw6 hours ago
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    • jayd163 hours ago
      It did work that way for .NET versions but the patches and upgrades caused too many bugs and incompatibility. Folks would install old .net versions anyway.

      The pattern moved to packaging in all your dependencies.

      Winget/Microsoft Store etc could auto-update your apps even with packaged .NET DLLs, though.

    • nobodyandproud6 hours ago
      You mean…service packs?
  • naturalmovement6 hours ago
    Sounds like a lot but compare it to Edge also being patched for 428 Chromium CVEs this month.

    If 20 years ago you told me a single piece of software had 428 vulnerabilities I wouldn't have believed it.

    If Chromium has that many security bugs, perhaps the move fast and break things approach of spraying diarrhea masquerading as code into a keyboard — in a rush to add new features no one asked for — needs to be reexamined.

    • sellmesoap2 hours ago
      20 years ago a malformed packet to winsock would crash the computer, 5 years later installing win2k on my buddies computer (no router/firewall) a few minutes after we finished the install "windows will reboot in nn seconds" whelp time to re-install without a network connection... we've added a lot of layers since win2k, mostly in the name of ease of development, and I don't feel like we've met that goal but we sure found a way to get a million monkies behind a million typwriters, and now we're aiming to replace the monkies with simulated monkies. Time to smell my fingers and fall out of the tree ;-D
    • tokioyoyo6 hours ago
      20 years ago software wasn't as much battle tested as today, had way less feature set, was less connected to the internet, and etc. 428 CVEs looks small, assuming not all have CVSS 9.8 or something.
    • georgemcbay6 hours ago
      > If 20 years ago you told me a single piece of software had 428 vulnerabilities I wouldn't have believed it.

      For something as complex as an operating system or a web browser, even one from 20 years ago (say, Windows XP or IE/Firefox) I wouldn't have believed there were 428 vulnerabilities either, I would have assumed there were much more than that.

    • encom2 hours ago
      >features no one asked for

      Google asked for them. That's all that matters.

    • dylan6046 hours ago
      Even if it had the Microsoft logo attached? Windows was always known to not be the most secure of products. I can't imagine anything else from the same company would be any better
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  • gerdesj7 hours ago
    "Microsoft attributed the burgeoning patch counts to vulnerability discoveries aided by artificial intelligence."

    If only real intelligence found the fucking things instead.

    As ye sew, so shall ye reap!

  • d01007 hours ago
    An employee just got phished by adding a number to a legitimate deviceAdd login route that bypasses 2FA and adds a device with full access to office and mail

    Probably working as intended...

    • shakna3 hours ago
      Sounds like one of ADOs recent security misconfiguration vulnerability announcements. The customer is blamed, for not quite hardening everything the right way, when ADO config is... A sizeable task.
    • xorl6 hours ago
      I always click NO to these, that's full human error. edit: The underlying issue is that they send a 2FA before asking for a password at all.