Microsoft has kicked out its December batch of software security fixes, the final Patch Tuesday of 2017. Redmond has addressed 32 CVE-listed vulnerabilities in Edge, Windows, and Office, as well as a hole in Internet Explorer last seen in the early-oughts. Get patching as soon as possible. Leading this month’s Patch Tuesday charge is CVE-2017-11927, a bug in Windows that can be exploited by an attacker to snatch a victim’s NTLM hash, which could be cracked offline to reveal their password.
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