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How Windows patches can be reversed, with the right access

Wed 7 Aug 2024 // 18:00 UTC

Techniques to, in the right circumstances, forcibly remove security patches from Windows machines so that fixed vulnerabilities are exploitable again were demonstrated this week.

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