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		es56yhse6 on Jan 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Micr... Interesting comment on reddit: > Within the federal space, we've been making unprecedented plans for patching systems as soon as this patch is released today. In my agency we're going to be aggressively quarantining and blocking unpatched systems beginning tomorrow. This patch has been the subject of many classified briefings within government agencies and military. https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/eoll74/all_hands_...

Bluecobra on Jan 14, 2020 [–]

The Department of Homeland Security issued an emergency directive today for federal agencies to patch their systems within 10 business days:

https://cyber.dhs.gov/ed/20-02/

mzs on Jan 14, 2020 | [–]

And that's for civilian systems. The only other time I can recall this happened was with the DNS vuln.

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