[German]The fog around the release of Windows 10 October 2018 Update (Version 1809) is clearing. The Media Creation Tool allows the download with just one trick, a possible release date of October 2, 2018 has become known and more.
[German]Currently there are synchronization problems with WSUS. Furthermore, administrators run into issues during the update installation for Office and Windows, e.g. the error 0x8000ffff is thrown. Here again an overview or some experiences of a blog reader.
The ALPC vulnerability (CVE-2018-8440), which is present in all supported and unpatched Microsoft Windows versions, is now being exploited by the Metasploit Kit.
[German]Here is a collection of potentially helpful information for administrators about installation issues related to microcode update KB4346084 (Windows 10 V1803) and the issue of missing Servicing Stack Update (SSU) for KB3177467 (Windows 7 SP1 and server counterparts). Microcode Update KB41000347 also breaks Overclocking on Haswell-E-CPUs.
If you use Hyper-V on Windows, you can add, run, or remove guest operating systems from the Hypere-V administrative Console. More convenient would be a tool with GUI to delete VMs.
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IBM Security and Ponemon Institute have released the 2018 Cost of Data Breach Study, based on conducted interviews with more than 2,200 IT, data protection, and compliance professionals from 477 companies that have experienced a data breach over the past 12 months.
[German]Within my blog post Windows Explorer: Strange ZIP handling? the topic NTFS Alternative Data Streams has been briefly mentioned in connection with Windows. Since I haven't covered this topic within my blog yet, and because the information isn't generally known, I will take a look at NTFS ADS in this article.
[German]Windows Explorer supports the packing and unpacking of ZIP archive files. However, in Windows 7 to Windows 10 this function is probably implemented differently from what other tools do. This sometimes leads to 'strange' effects, which can be explained with some background knowledge.
Mozilla's developers released version 62.0.2 of the Firefox browser on September 21, 2018. This is a maintenance update which corrects some bugs and closes vulnerabilities.
[German]Microsoft has released again on September 21, 2018 the compatibility update KB3150513 for Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 and the still supported versions of Windows 10.
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