Category Archives: Update

Critical flaw in MS Malware Protection Engine (CVE-2018-0986)

Posted on 2018-04-04 by guenni

[German]Microsoft's Malware Protection Engine has a critical vulnerability (CVE-2018-0986). All supported Windows versions are affected. Microsoft has released a security update for the affected products.

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Microsoft Office Patchday (April 3, 2018)

Posted on 2018-04-04 by guenni

[German]The first Tuesday of the month is Office Patchday. On April 3, 2018, Microsoft released non-security updates for Microsoft Office 2010, Office 2013, and Office 2016.

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Windows 10: Update Error 0x80070157

Posted on 2018-04-03 by guenni

[German]Users of Windows 10 get sometimes an update error 0x80070157 when trying to install cumulative updates. Here is an attempt to shed some light on this error.

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Update KB4099950 for Windows 7/Server 2008 R2

Posted on 2018-03-31 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has surprisingly released update KB4099950 for Windows 7 SP1. It is a maintenance update to fix the problems with the virtual network adapters (NIC problem) caused by the KB4088875 and KB4088878 security updates of March 13, 2018.

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Update KB4096309 for Windows 10 Version 1607

Posted on 2018-03-31 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has surprisingly released an update for Windows 10. Update KB4096309 should fix connection issues under Windows 10 Anniversary Update (Version 1607.

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Update KB4100480 for Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 (03/29/2018)

Posted on 2018-03-31 by guenni

[German]Microsoft released an out of band security update KB4100480 for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and the embedded version of Windows 7 on March 29, 2018.

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Microsoft will block RDP connections from clients soon

Posted on 2018-03-29 by guenni

[German]Due to a critical vulnerability in Microsoft's Credential Security Support Provider (CredSSP), the company plans to block RDP connections from unpatched clients to Windows Servers in the future. Administrators need to update all clients and servers, to avoid this situation.

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Windows 7 Jan./Feb. 2018 patches opens Total Meltdown vulnerability

Posted on 2018-03-28 by guenni

[German]It seems that things went terribly wrong. Microsoft's Meltdown updates shipped in January 2018 and February for Windows 7 (and Server 2008 R2) intended to mitigate the Meltdown vulnerability rip open a huge security hole. This allows any process under … Continue reading →

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Firefox 59.0.2 released

Posted on 2018-03-27 by guenni

[German]Mozilla has surprisingly released Firefox 59.0.1 on March 16, 2018. Now (March 26, 2018) a maintenance update to version 59.0.2 has been released.

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VMware: Updates for ESX-Server

Posted on 2018-03-26 by guenni

Just a not for administrators who are responsible for VMware ESX servers. Thcompany released various updates. Among other things, microcode updates to close the Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities are included.

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