Windows 10 19H1 with Retpoline Spectre V2 Mitigation

Posted on 2018-10-20 by guenni

[German]Surprise in Windows 10 Insider Preview 19H1: The kernel contains the Retpoline technology to protect it from Spectre V2 attack. This is to minimize the power loss caused by this protection.

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Windows 10 V1607, V1703, V1709 Updates (10/18/2018)

Posted on 2018-10-19 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has released the updates KB4462932 (Windows 10 V1709), KB4462939 (Windows 10 Version 1703) and KB4462928 (Windows 10 Version 1607) as well as some dynamic updates as of October 18, 2018..

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Windows: RID Hijacking allows guests to become an Admin

Posted on 2018-10-19 by guenni

[German]It seems that all Windows versions contains a kind of 'vulnerability' which allows to transfer user rights (administrator privileges) from another account to a Windows guest account. This is called RID hijacking, and has been known for at least 10 months without being broadly noticed.

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Windows Update Error 0x8007042B

Posted on 2018-10-19 by guenni

[German]Occasionally in Windows (especially under Windows 10) an update installation is aborted and the operating system drops the error code 0x8007042B. Here are some hints for correcting this error.

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Apple Event on October 30, 2018

Posted on 2018-10-18 by guenni

Apple invited the US press today to an event in New York on Tuesday, October 30, 2018. The event will start at 10:00 a.m. local time at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Howard Gilman Opera House.

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Microsoft Security Update Releases (Oct 17, 2019)

Posted on 2018-10-18 by guenni

Microsoft has published a revised security update notification as of October 17, 2018, which I would like to briefly describe below. It is about MFC in connection with the cumulative update 11 for Exchange Server 2016 (KB4134118) and the SQL Server Management Studio.

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Exchange Server: Active Sync client has connect/sync issues

Posted on 2018-10-18 by guenni

[German]Microsoft addresses synchronization issues with Active Sync in connection with Exchange server environments in a recent KB article. Here is some information that might be helpful for Exchange administrators.

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VirtualBox 5.2.20 released

Posted on 2018-10-18 by guenni

VirtualboxThe developers have released on October 16, 2018 an update for Virtualbox, the virtualization solution from Oracle. This update upgrades VirtualBox to version 5.2.20.

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Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18262 (19H1)

Posted on 2018-10-17 by guenni

On October 17, 2018 Microsoft released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18262 from branch 19H1 in the Fast and Skip Ahead ring. The announcement was made within the Windows Blog, where you can also find the list of new features (you can uninstall more Build-In apps), fixed bugs and known issues. 

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Oracle Critical Patch Update October 16, 2018

Posted on 2018-10-17 by guenni

[German]Oracle has released a number of critical updates for its products as of October 16, 2018. Here is an overview of these updates.

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