The Shadow Brokers alleged in a leak Friday that the NSA had known about several vulnerabilities in Windows operating systems that allowed for various computer systems to be taken over remotely. But Windows consumers should not be at risk to the vulnerabilities that were revealed as long as they've downloaded the latest security updates — within the past month or so. If you're still sticking to older versions of Windows, however, you could run into a problem. Microsoft said the patches have been fixed for anyone running Windows 7 and beyond — meaning that if you're a Windows XP holdout, you are vulnerable. Those running versions of Exchange older than Exchange 2010 also are not protected.

Source: Washington Post April 17, 2017 15:38 UTC