One million Windows systems still vulnerable to 'wormable' BlueKeep RDP security flaw

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Microsoft deemed BlueKeep RDP flaw so serious it even supplied a patch for Windows XP

Almost one million Windows systems remain vulnerable to the "wormable" BlueKeep security flaw, almost two weeks after the release of a security patch by Microsoft. BlueKeep, indexed as CVE-2019-...

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