Monthly Archives: January 2019

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Office 365 down (January 24, 2019)?

Posted on 2019-01-24 by guenni

[German]Short question: Can you reach Office365.com? It seems, that Microsoft Office365.com services has a massive outage in Europe, Africa and Middle East. I received two user messages on January 24, 2019, that Office365.com is not available. Advertising

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Using Sysinternals Sysmon 8.0.0? Update to 8.0.4

Posted on 2019-01-24 by guenni

[German]A quick tip for admins who use Sysmon from the Sysinternals system monitoring tools. There is a memory leak in version 8.0.0, which has been fixed in the updated version 8.0.4. Advertising

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Windows-Tool UserBenchMark – is it trustable?

Posted on 2019-01-24 by guenni

[German]Here's a blog post for people who love to use tons of tools onto their Windows systems. I have just become aware of the Windows tool UserBenchMark, that promises to create a benchmark of the system. I was asked if … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 V1809: Update KB4476976 (01/22/2019)

Posted on 2019-01-23 by guenni

[German]Microsoft released the KB4476976 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1809 and Windows Server 2019 on January 22, 2019. Here is a brief overview of what's new. Advertising

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Is Update KB4480977 causing high TiWorker CPU load?

Posted on 2019-01-23 by guenni

[German]Does the cumulative update KB4480977 dated January 17, 2019 for Windows 10 V1607 and Windows Server 2016 forces the TiWorker process to cause a high CPU load?  Advertising

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Micro Patch for Windows 0-Day file write vulnerability

Posted on 2019-01-23 by guenni

In Windows there is a Zero-Day-Exploit, which allows you to overwrite files without permission. 0patch provides a temporary micro-patch for this bug after Microsoft did not patch it in January 2019. Advertising

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Malwarebytes: Fix for the Windows 7 Freeze issue

Posted on 2019-01-22 by guenni

[German]Malwarebytes users recognized sporadic freezes in Windows 7 with Malwarebytes version 3.6.1.x. Malwarebytes has now released an update to fix this sporadic freezing. Advertising

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Office 2010 Update KB4462157 (Jan. 18, 2019)

Posted on 2019-01-22 by guenni

[German]A short note to users of Microsoft Office 2010. Microsoft has released the update KB4462157 on January 18, 2018 to finally add support for a new area to the Japanese calendar. Advertising

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Vulnerability in ThreadX WiFi firmware

Posted on 2019-01-22 by guenni

Within a very popular firmware (ThreadX) for WiFi chips, a vulnerability has been discovered that allows remote code execution. This exposes billions of devices to a security risk. Advertising

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Nearly 200 Extensions (Chrome, Firefox, Opera) vulnerable

Posted on 2019-01-21 by guenni

[German]Security researchers have found nearly 200 extensions for Google Chrome, Firefox or Opera that can be attacked by malicious websites. Maybe another opportunity to check, if you really need this stuff. Advertising

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