Monthly Archives: April 2018

Windows 7/Server 2008 R2: Total Meltdown exploit went public

Posted on 2018-04-24 by guenni

[German]Microsoft's Meltdown security patches released since January 2018 has created a new vulnerability called Total Meltdown in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Now somebody has released exploit code on GitHub to exploit this vulnerability. Here is an attempt … Continue reading →

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Internet Explorer Zero Day vulnerability used in the wild

Posted on 2018-04-23 by guenni

[German]Microsoft's Internet Explorer has an unpatched vulnerability. Security researchers have now discovered that this zero-day vulnerability is being exploited by a APT group to distribute malware.

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Windows 10: RS4 Insider Preview – current state

Posted on 2018-04-22 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has cleaned up some things concerning the Redstone 4 Insider Preview builds this week for and fixed some problems. So let's have a few about the current state.

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Flash is fading away, drops down to 4.9 % usage

Posted on 2018-04-22 by guenni

[German]There are still the good news. Adobe Flash seems, as planned, to disappear from use by the end of 2020. At present, the usage drops down to 4.9%. Here is a short summary of the topic.

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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Windows 10 Lean on its way?

Posted on 2018-04-21 by guenni

[German]Is Microsoft experimenting with a lean version of Windows 10? A SKU 'Windows 10 Lean' could be coming in the Redstone 5 branch in this fall. here are a few information.

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Microsoft April 2018 patchday issues

Posted on 2018-04-20 by guenni

[German]In April 2018 Microsoft released a couple of updates for Windows, Office and other products. In addition to the known issues already reported by Microsoft (Known Issues), some updates lead to further problems. This article outlines some problems that have … Continue reading →

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VirtualBox 5.2.10

Posted on 2018-04-19 by guenni

Oracle released the virtualization software VirtualBox version 5.2.10 on April 17, 2018. This is a maintenance update which should fix some bugs.

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Java SE Version 8 Update 171/172 released

Posted on 2018-04-19 by guenni

Oracle released the update for Java SE 8 to version 171 (and 172) on April 17, 2018. The update to version 171/172 is a security update that closes security holes (see also Oracle Security Advisory April 2018).

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Google Chrome 66 released

Posted on 2018-04-18 by guenni

Google has released Google Chrome 66 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. The desktop version includes an autoplaying content blocking feature.

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Windows Defender extension for Google Chrome

Posted on 2018-04-18 by guenni

[German]Protection against online threads (phishing, malware websites) etc. for the Google Chrome browser? Microsoft makes it possible with a chrome extension.

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