Monthly Archives: April 2019

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Adblock Plus filter can be exploited for malware attacks

Posted on 2019-04-17 by guenni

[German]The Adblock Plus extension (or it's filters) used in browsers can be misused to inject malware or manipulated what's displayed. This is difficult to detect, says a security researcher who has now now publicy disclosed this vulnerability. Eyeo, the developer … Continue reading →

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Windows vulnerability CVE-2019-0859 is exploited

Posted on 2019-04-16 by guenni

[German]In April 2019, Microsoft closed the CVE-2019-0859 vulnerability in Windows with a security update. Kaspersky security researchers have observed multiple attacks attempting to exploit this vulnerability in Windows 7 to 10. Advertising

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Useless Media Creation Tool for Windows 10 V1903 released

Posted on 2019-04-15 by guenni

There are reports, an updated version of Microsoft's Windows Media Creation Tool (MCT) has (allegedly) appeared, which can be used to create an installation medium for Windows 10. Unfortunately this MediaCreationTool1903.exe program still won't download the install image of Windows … Continue reading →

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Is Microsoft's Outlook.com hack worse than admitted?

Posted on 2019-04-15 by guenni

[German]The access of unauthorized third parties to Microsoft's email services such as outlook.com or hotmail.com was deeper than Microsoft first admitted. More details are slowly coming to light. Advertising

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Windows 10 V1903 has issues with AMD Raid drivers

Posted on 2019-04-15 by guenni

[German]Users of AMD systems should take care when using Windows 10. Currently it is not possible to install Insider Previews builds of Windows 10 May 2019 update, because the raid drivers cause issues and prevent an upgrade. Advertising

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Microsoft’s mail services (outlook.com, hotmail.com) hacked

Posted on 2019-04-14 by guenni

Microsoft's email services were hacked and attackers could access email accounts (@msn.com, @hotmail.com, @outlook.com, etc.) of users of these services. Microsoft has confirmed the hack. Advertising

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0-day vulnerability in IE 11 allows to steal files

Posted on 2019-04-13 by guenni

[German]There is a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer that allows attackers in all versions of Windows to access and steal files. However, Microsoft has no ambitions to patch the vulnerability immediately. Advertising

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Patchday Microsoft Office Updates (April 9, 2019)

Posted on 2019-04-12 by guenni

[German]As of April 9, 2019 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), Microsoft has released several security updates for supported Microsoft Office versions and other products. Advertising

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AVAST and Avira confirms April 2019 Update issues

Posted on 2019-04-12 by guenni

[German]The manufacturers of antivirus products, AVAST and Avira have officially confirmed that their products will cause issues with Windows after installing April 2019 Windows updates. Advertising

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Windows 10 V1809: Slow down with Update KB4493509?

Posted on 2019-04-12 by guenni

Just a brief information and a question, if anyone can confirm this. There are reports that the update KB4493509 slows down machines with Windows 10 V1809 extremely. Addendum: Avira confirmed such an issue. Advertising

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