Windows Server 2019: Defender Performance Issues

[German]Will there be major performance issues during running Windows Server 2019? Then Windows Defender may be the cause, as I read a few days ago.

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Fix: Windows 10 driver blocked by core isolation

[German]Microsoft has published a support article on how to fix an issue, that drivers are blocked from getting loaded by the security feature 'core isolation' introduced in Windows 10.

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Vulnerability CVE-2020-9054 affects Zyxel USG/ATP firewalls

[German]Zyxel's USG/ATP firewalls are also affected by the CVE-2020-9054 vulnerability, as is their NAS. The vendor has released a firmware update to close the vulnerability.

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Vulnerability in ‘Intel x86 Root of Trust’

[German]All Intel CPUs released in the past five years contain an unfixable flaw, that affects the 'Intel x86 Root of Trust'. Intel tried to patch to lessen the damage of exploits. But security researcher say that's not enough to protect the system 100 %.

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Security round up (03/06/2020)

[German]At the end of the week a collection of security topics that have come to my attention over the last days and for which I do not want to create a separate blog post.

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

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Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19577

On March 5, 2020, Microsoft released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19577 (20H2 development branch) for Insiders in the Fast Ring. In the Windows Blog, Microsoft lists the bug fixes and known issues of this build.

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Security Updates: Chrome 80.0.3987.132 / Edge 80.0.361.66

Edge[German]Google has released a security update for the Chrome 80.0.3987.132 on 3 March 2020. Microsoft's developers followed on March 4, 2020 and released a security update for the Chromium Edge browser. This updates the browser to version 80.0.361.66.

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CCleaner v5.64.7613 released

[German]Today a blog post about CCleaner. There is an update to version v5.64.7613, that has been released on March 3, 2020. Here are a few details about this free software for Windows.

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Windows 7: Securing with the 0patch solution – Part 2

win7[German]In Part 1, I described how I was able to install the February 2020 security update on Windows 7 SP1 using an ESU license and the ByPassESU solution. Part 2 now deals with securing a Windows 7 SP1 system after the end of support using the 0Patch micro patches. This is the solution that should also work for private users (free of charge).

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Windows 7: Forcing February 2020 Security Updates – Part 1

win7[German]Still using Windows 7 and interested installing the security updates from February 2020, although support for the operating system in January 2020 has fallen out of support? In this blog post I will outline an overview of several options.

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