[German]What about test tools for Meltdown and Spectre mitigations under Windows at February 2018? Within this blog post I take a look at several test tools for Windows and introduce two more test tools from Germany.
[German]Currently, there are growing indications that we could experience side channel attacks on computer systems using Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities in the near future.
[German]Microsoft released the cumulative update KB4058258 for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update on January 31,2018. It looks like this update causes the installation error 0x80073715 on some systems. Addendum: It seems we have identified the root cause.
[German]Dell EMC SupportAssist Enterprise 1.1 has an undocumented default account vulnerability (Windows OS Management Station version only, Linux versions of SupportAssist Enterprise v1.1 and upgrade to v1.2 are not affected by this issue). Here are a few more details.
[German]At the beginning of February 2018, it's time to take a quick look at the market share of desktop operating systems and see how things has changed with Windows. And I will take also a look at the browser market and its user shares.
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[German]Adobe Flash Player is a permanent security risk, because once a month, several vulnerabilities are detected and many of them are exploited. So it's helpful to know, how to disable or uninstall Adobe Flash Player.
[German]Microsoft released the cumulative update KB4058258 for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update on January 31, 2018. The stability update KB4074608 has also been released. And there are other updates ( KB4077735, KB4078128 and KB4057790). Here are some information about these updates.
[German]Some Cisco products contains contains critical vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities are quoted with warning level 10 of 10. Cisco Firewalls and Applicance should be updated as as soon as possible.
[German]Users of the Firefox browser on Linux, macOS and Windows should urgently upgrade (their desktop version) to version 58.0.1. Older versions (with the exception of Firefox 52 ESR and Firefox for Android) have a critical vulnerability.
The Fingerprint Manager Pro software shipped with Lenovo's ThinkPad system has several vulnerabilities. So updating to the latest version is strongly recommended.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
