Category Archives: Windows

Patchday: Issues with SCCM, McAfee & Crypt32.dll (Jan 2020)?

[German]Are there issues caused by updates from the last patchday (January 2020), when the file Crypt32.dll was patched. A reader sent me a question about this topic. He is using McAfee and SCCM in an enterprise environment. Currently McAfee seems … Continue reading

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Prognosis: Mass migration from Windows to macOS

[German]Exciting prognosis, which has just fallen into my hands. Dean Hager, CEO of the software provider Jamf, has given some forecasts for innovations in 2020. One is that we will see a mass migration from Windows to macOS. I found … Continue reading

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Windows 7: Internet Explorer 11 reaches end of support

[German]Microsoft axes the Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7 SP1 and declared the browser has reached 'end of support' for this operating system. This may be read now on the IE download pages.

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Windows 10 Mobile reaches end of life

A small reminder about last week: Windows 10 Mobile version 1709 (the 'latest version') received its last security update on 10.12.2019. Microsoft had internally changed the documentation so that the support ends on January 14th, 2020. But after the date … Continue reading

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Warning: 0-Day vulnerability in Internet Explorer (01/17/2020)

[German]Microsoft has issued a security advisory for a 0-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer as of January 17, 2020, which affects virtually all versions of Windows (because Internet Explorer is the browser that is present in those versions). There is an … Continue reading

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

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Windows: PoC for CryptoAPI Bug CVE-2020-0601 are out

[German]The CyptoAPI vulnerability CVE-2020-0601 in Windows has several proof of concept exploits and is likely to be actively attacked soon. Chrome introduces a check in the browser and there is a test page for this vulnerability.

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Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19546

[German]On January 16, 2020, Microsoft released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19546for insiders in the Fast Ring. Here is some information about it.

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Windows 7: Vivaldi also offers support for 18 months

[German]Also, the developers of the Vivaldi browser have presented their plans, for Windows 7 SP1. This operating system will be supported by the browser at least until mid 2021.

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Windows Server: Vulnerability CVE-2020-0609 in Remote Desktop Gateway

[German]A small security note for administrators running Windows (Essentials) Server 2012 and Windows Server 2016/2019 with the Remote Desktop Gateway role enabled If you want users to be able to access the RCE vulnerability CVE-2020-0609 on ports 443 and 3389, … Continue reading

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Patchday Windows 10-Updates (January 14, 2020)

[German]On January 14, 2020 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft) several cumulative updates for the supported Windows 10 builds were released. Here are some details about the respective updates.

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