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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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution
[Sponsored Post]In the rapidly evolving IT world, choosing the right remote desktop software is critical for organizations that value security, ease of use and reliability. One provider of secure remote access that has been on the market since 2001 is ISL Online, which presents some considerations for choosing such software below. More ...
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.
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.
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.
Windows and the effectiveness of 0-day exploits
How critical are unpatched vulnerabilities (0-day exploits) in their impact on the latest version of Windows? I've been able to get an interesting piece of information that indicates the trend since 2015.
BlueKeep warning: Exploit might come soon?
[German]Another warning – after someone has posted slide deck foils about the BlueKeep vulnerability on GitHut, it shouldn't be long before a working exploit appears in practice.