Windows 7 shows End of Support notification

Posted on 2019-04-21 by guenni

win7[German]It happened during the last time, first people have received the announced notification in Windows 7  that support for this operating system will end on January 14, 2020.

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Microsoft restores deleted Technet- and MSDN-Blogs

Posted on 2019-04-21 by guenni

[German]After massive protests, Microsoft seems to be rethinking and trying to restore the blog posts that were deleted on Technet and MSDN during the hiring of employee blogs.

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Windows 7: Mc Afee is causing issues with April Updates

Posted on 2019-04-20 by guenni

Windows Update[German]Some Windows users are facing issues with the security updates released on April 9, 2019. Now it became known, that also Mc Afee as virus protection solution probably is causing slow a system start with the April 2019 update KB4493472 in Windows 7.

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.NET Framework 4.8 (Final) released

Posted on 2019-04-20 by guenni

Microsoft has released on April 18, 2019, (beside Windows 10 Version 1903) the final version of the .NET Framework 4.8 as well.

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CCleaner 5.56.7144 released

Posted on 2019-04-20 by guenni

[German]A brief information for CCleaner users (I know that some of my blog readers are interested in that stuff). Piriform released an update to CCleaner v5.56.7144 for Windows on April 49 2019.

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Edge’s Secret Trick Breaks Internet Explorer's Security

Posted on 2019-04-19 by guenni

[German]The 0Patch team has developed a micropatch to close a 0-Day Information Disclosure vulnerability in Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10. This vulnerability allows Windows attackers to access files and upload them from the user's system to their own servers. It is caused by an undocumented Edge feature that breaks IE 11's security under Windows 10.

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Vulnerability in Broadcom’s WiFi drivers, million devices at risk

Posted on 2019-04-18 by guenni

[German]A major vulnerability in Broadcom's WiFi drivers enables remote code execution and threatens millions of computers, smartphones, tablets and IoT devices.

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Windows Live-Tile takeover from security researcher

Posted on 2019-04-17 by guenni

[German]Windows 10 Windows 10 (but also Windows 8.x) use Live tiles in Apps to display content in the Start menu. German security researcher Hanno Böck was able to takeover the subdomain for the corresponding service and was able to display any content on the Live tiles in the start menu.

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Windows patchday issues–one week later (April 17, 2019)

Posted on 2019-04-17 by guenni

[German]One week after Microsoft released Windows security updates causing install issues, the situation for victims are not clear. Here's an overview, what we know so far. Addendum: Avira has updated its knowledge base article, I've added that information.

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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 of Adblock Plus has announced to remove the risky feature.

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