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Ars Technica: Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk

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Ars Technica: Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk

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Subject: Ars Technica: Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:07:02 -0400
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Ars Technica: Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk Link: https://rootbadger.com/shortened/stvbx5wez allow-attackers-to-fill-hard-disk/

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From: Thomas Whitmore <thomas.whitmore@maplepost.org>
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Subject: Re: Ars Technica: Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:42:33 -0400
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This is the sort of security bug that sounds almost dull until it turns into an outage. Disk-fill attacks are cheap and nasty; patch, yes, but keep an eye on free-space alerts too.

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Thomas W. / keep the receipts
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