[German]Last year, hackers from Shadow Brokers made various NSA tools public. Exploits such as EternalBlue were used in Ransomware attacks such as WannaCry, NotPetya and Bad Rabbit. A security researcher has now taken a closer look at other exploits and has been able to modify them so that they can run on all versions of Windows.
The date for the developer conference Microsoft BUILD 2018 is fixed. The Build 2018 will take place in Seattle from May 7 to 9, 2018. WalkingCat posted the corresponding information including the Build 2018 logo on Twitter.
— WalkingCat (@h0x0d) 6. Februar 2018
It should be noted that there is an overlap with Google I/O 2018 (see Google I/O May 8th to 10th 2018).
A few hors ago we have had the release of WordPress 4.9.3. Now the developers has released WordPress 4.9.4. It's also a maintenance update that fixes an error (in automatic backup). The changes are described in this changelog page.
WordPress developers have just released version 4.9.3. I've just updated my blog to the new version successfully. This is a maintenance update that fixes security issues and 34 bugs. The changes can be read in this changelog page. Update to this version, to mitigate CVE-2018-6389 described here.
[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.
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[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.
[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.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
