Tag Archives: Update

Attention with Linux RDP connections and CredSSP updates

[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.

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Updates KB4099467, KB4099468 (March/April 2018)

[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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Windows Update revisions KB4090450, KB4088875, KB4088878, KB4088881

[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.

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Critical flaw in MS Malware Protection Engine (CVE-2018-0986)

[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.

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Microsoft Office Patchday (April 3, 2018)

[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.

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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Windows 10: Update Error 0x80070157

[German]Users of Windows 10 get sometimes an update error 0x80070157 when trying to install cumulative updates. Here is an attempt to shed some light on this error.

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Update KB4099950 for Windows 7/Server 2008 R2

[German]Microsoft has surprisingly released update KB4099950 for Windows 7 SP1. It is a maintenance update to fix the problems with the virtual network adapters (NIC problem) caused by the KB4088875 and KB4088878 security updates of March 13, 2018.

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Update KB4100480 for Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 (03/29/2018)

[German]Microsoft released an out of band security update KB4100480 for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and the embedded version of Windows 7 on March 29, 2018.

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Windows 7 Jan./Feb. 2018 patches opens Total Meltdown vulnerability

[German]It seems that things went terribly wrong. Microsoft's Meltdown updates shipped in January 2018 and February for Windows 7 (and Server 2008 R2) intended to mitigate the Meltdown vulnerability rip open a huge security hole. This allows any process under … Continue reading

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Firefox 59.0.2 released

[German]Mozilla has surprisingly released Firefox 59.0.1 on March 16, 2018. Now (March 26, 2018) a maintenance update to version 59.0.2 has been released.

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