[German]Windows 10 April Update (version 1803) probably causes issues with the Microsoft Store. And WSUS may have problems rolling out updates for Windows 10 clients. With WSUS it turns out that Microsoft has fixed something and distributed it in the last days.
[German]Security researcher found a critical vulnerability in encryption used by PGP and S/MIME during encrypting e-mails. This results that encrypted messages may contain data in plain text and also old encrypted messages can be decrypted afterwards.
[German]Once again it's the old story: Users drag extensions for Google's Chrome browser onto their system – and thus infect the devices with malware. More than 100,000 computers are said to have been infected by malicious chrome extensions.
[German]In Windows 10 April Update (version 1803), users users are facing cyclic Explorer crashes or freezes. Other applications may also be affected. The reason is a bug in Timeline. However, there is a workaround.
[German]Not so good news for Skype users – Microsoft has been carving around the Skype clients since taking over Skype in 2011. In the meantime, the clients are difficult to use and are often buggy or lacking functions. Skype has somehow been a story of decline for years and one can get the impression that Microsoft is somehow about to sink Skype. Bloomberg has taken up and analyzed the whole thing in an article.
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The developers of the Tor Browser (or The Tor Network) released the update to version 7.5.4 on May 9, 2018. Here is an overview of what has changed.
Oracle released the virtualization software VirtualBox version 5.2.12 on May 9, 2018. This is a maintenance update which should fix some bugs.
[German]Users who upgraded to Windows 10 version 1803 (April Update) have received the cumulative update KB4103721 as of May 8, 2017. However, some systems have boot problems or other bugs. Here is an overview of what you should know.
Microsoft has released on May 9, 2018 the next Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17666 from the Redstone 5 development branch in Fast and Skip Ahead Ring. The announcement has been made within the Windows Blog, where you may read further details about improvements and know issue. An issue not mentioned from Microsoft: Clipboard history stores passwords in plain text.
[German]Owners of Windows 10 systems with Intel SSDs have to wait for the upgrade for Windows 10 April Update. Microsoft has stopped the rollout due to compatibility issues for such systems.
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