[German]Intel offers a Microcode Boot Loader that creates a bootable USB stick. It automatically applies the latest Intel microcodes to the identified CPU during boot. This should protect the system from Spectre vulnerabilities.
Microsoft just announced the final release of the security configuration baseline settings – for Windows 10 October 2018 Update (V1809) and also for Windows Server 2019.
[German]It happens again, Microsoft has stopped the rollout of Windows 10 V1809 on systems with Intel some graphic drivers. Here are a few details about what is known so far.
[German]The cumulative updates of November 13, 2018 for Windows 10 are causing issues with Windows Media Player. This issue is caused by different cumulative updates for different versions of Windows 10.
[German]Users of Windows 7 SP1 (and its server counterparts) and WSUS will need a special update from April 2019, which will enable the machine to handle SHA2 code signatures. Without this update, these machines can no longer process updates.
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[German]Microsoft has not too much luck with its Office updates released in November 2018. Two non security updates has been pulled, and a security update causes Outlook 2010 to crash.
Currently it seems that Facebook (and its services like Instagram) are being disturbed worldwide. According to various reports, Twitter is probably also affected, although I can't see any issue at the moment.
On November 19, 2018, Google's developers released a security update for Google Chrome browser. This fixes a vulnerability rated high and raises the version to 70.0.3538.110..
[German]After the release of Windows 10 October 2018 Update (V1809), Microsoft also deployed the .admx template files for Group Policy. However, these are flawed.
[German]From version 2010 to 2019 there is a vulnerability in Exchange Server, which should be fixed by an update sometime. However, you can deactivate the vulnerability via a registry entry – which has consequences. Addendum: In January 2019 a Proof of Concept has been published.
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2013 – 2016
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