Yoran, who was a founding director of the Department of Homeland Security's computer emergency readiness team, urged all organizations to prioritize patching their systems quickly.Īn advisory sent by the NSA on Tuesday said “the consequences of not patching the vulnerability are severe and widespread.” government to share its discovery of such a critical vulnerability with a company. The company said it has not seen any evidence that hackers have used the technique.Īmit Yoran, CEO of security firm Tenable, said it is “exceptionally rare if not unprecedented” for the U.S. Microsoft released a free software patch to fix the flaw Tuesday and credited the intelligence agency for discovering it.
