Tag Archives: Windows

Beware of Dism++ with Windows customizations

[German]A brief note for fans of the software tool Dism ++. You can get into a lot of trouble with this tool when customizing Windows installations. Here a few things I became aware of.

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August 2019 Updates: Issues with VB6, VBA and VBScript

[German]As of August 2019, Microsoft will cut VBScript support in Internet Explorer. Now there are problems with the Windows security updates from August 2019 in connection with Visual Basic (VB6, VBA and VBScript).

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Windows: Critical Patches (CVE-2019-1181/CVE-2019-1182) August 13, 2019

[German]As of August 13, 2019 (2nd Tuesday of the month, Patchday) Microsoft has released a series of security updates. These include extremely critical updates that close vulnerabilities exploitable by computer worms (CVE-2019-1181/CVE-2019-1182).

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Microsoft Security Update Summary (August 13, 2019)

[German]As of August 13, 2019, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, Office, etc. Here is a compact overview of these updates.

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Fix for issues on Windows share from macOS

[German]Since Microsoft released update KB4503276 of June 2019, users of macOS have had problems accessing shares on Windows machines (clients and servers). SMB1 and LTLM are causing problems. Apple has now published a KB article on this topic.

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

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Some Windows driver vulnerable to Privilege Escalation

[German]Security researchers have found in an analysis of legitimate device drivers that more than 40 drivers from at least 20 hardware vendors are vulnerable to privilege escalation.

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Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability CVE-2019-1125

[German]On August 6, 2019, Microsoft released updated security information on the CVE-2019-1125 (Spectre 1 Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability) vulnerability.

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Bugs in Western Digital SSD Utility puts users at risk

[German]Trivial bugs in Western Digital and SanDisk SSD management tools compromise the security of Windows users. This has been revealed by security researchers. But there is an update from the manufacturers.

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Windows: A Bug in winevtutil

[German]A German blog reader already informed me in mid-June 2019 about a stupid bug in winevtutil to me. Here I outline a few details about this behavior within this blog post.

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Nvidia Hotfix Driver 431.68 for Mouse bug

The manufacturer has released a hotfix for its Nvidia 431.60 WHQL Game Ready driver. The hotfix is supposed to correct a mouse pointer bug in a game.

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