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A first phase patch for the critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-1472, was issued in August 2020. "The first phase of the patch was intended to address the vulnerability on two fronts: blocking both Windows-based domain members and non-Windows PCs that have been configured to disable signing/encryption as well as making changes to the Netlogon protocol for clients that cannot use the required signing/encryption," says Satnam Narang, staff research engineer at the security firm Tenable. The second patch completes the patching process for those who did not earlier implement enforcement ...

Microsoft's monthly security fixes addressed a Win32k zero-day, six publicly known flaws, and three bugs in the Windows TCP/IP stack.

Patch Tuesday sees just 56 vulnerabilities addressed this month

Security teams might want to take a close look at their own risks for a particular flaw noted Microsoft, despite the decision by the security giant to forgo the “critical" rating.