[German]In advance to the today's patch day a small hint about CredSSP updates for Windows. Microsoft's CredSSP updates can kill remote desktop connections between Linux and Windows.
Starting in April 2018, chip manufacturer NVidia has discontinued support for 32-bit graphics drivers. From this point on there will be no driver updates (only security updates until January 2019) and game ready drivers. This is stated in this message on the NVidia website. Furthermore, support for game ready driver upgrades is restricted, as you can read here.
I don't know if any of my blog readers manage their devices through Intune. Microsoft has just integrated support for CSV files in Intune, which can be used to upload device configurations.
[German]The vendor of switches and other network components warns its customers against attacks by government hackers on critical infrastructure. Vulnerabilities in Cisco products can be a gateway for such attacks.
[German]At the end of the week another article about Windows updates Microsoft released at the end of March and beginning of April 2018.
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Microsoft promises its private Office 365 Home and Personal subscribers enhanced ransomware protection by providing a file recovery feature on OneDrive. Outlook.com also introduces additional email protection features. Microsoft announces details about its plans for advanced protection for Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal on the Office blog.
[German]On April 4, 2018 Microsoft has revised the updates KB4090450, KB4088875, KB4088878, KB408888881 for Windows. I collected some details, and there are other details about Windows bugs.
[German]Intel has stopped developing microcode updates to close the meltdown vulnerability for older CPUs. This can be seen in the latest Intel Microcode Update Guidance revision.
[German]Microsoft's Malware Protection Engine has a critical vulnerability (CVE-2018-0986). All supported Windows versions are affected. Microsoft has released a security update for the affected products.
[German]The first Tuesday of the month is Office Patchday. On April 3, 2018, Microsoft released non-security updates for Microsoft Office 2010, Office 2013, and Office 2016.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
