Tag Archives: Windows

Hackers are Loving Windows PowerShell

Posted on 2019-04-04 by guenni

PowerShell is available as a script environment on all Windows systems and is not only popular with administrators. Attackers also appreciate PowerShell to run malicious scripts in Windows environments.

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.NET Framework Update KB4489192 (April 2, 2019)

Posted on 2019-04-03 by guenni

On April 2, 2019, Microsoft released a cumulative security update KB4489192 for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.7.2 for Windows 10, version 1809, and Windows Server 2019.

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Security: Windows-Spoofing via .reg files

Posted on 2019-04-02 by guenni

[German]Windows users can be spoofed into importing .reg files, as I just verified. You can send manipulated messages to the user via the dialog box shown before a .reg file is imported.

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Tell Microsoft your opinion about Windows update experience

Posted on 2019-03-31 by guenni

The Windows update experience isn't the best for some Windows users. Install errors, pulled updates and many more incidents happens in the past. Now Microsoft is eager to obtain the opinion of Windows users about the update experience.

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Dell Encryption fails in Windows after March 2019 updates

Posted on 2019-03-30 by guenni

[German]After the March 2019 cumulative Windows updates has been installed, the Dell Encryption encryption solution fails on Windows 7 through Windows 10 with error messages such as _UNMNGD. Now Dell has released some information.

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

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Windows: Critical vulnerability in Huawei PCManager

Posted on 2019-03-27 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has found two serious vulnerabilities in a driver and in PC Manager for Windows, both provided by Chinese company Huawei. These vulnerabilities allow local privileges escalation. Updates are available since in January 2019.

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Windows Calc Source-Code: A Nightmare …

Posted on 2019-03-24 by guenni

Windows Calc app is located on billions of computers, because it is sipped with Windows. Recently the source code of the program was released as Open Source on GitHub. Some people have inspected the program code, and came to the … Continue reading →

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DTrace for Windows available

Posted on 2019-03-17 by guenni

Microsoft ported the analysis tool DTrace to Windows and released it for general use last week. Here is some information about this tool, where to obtain it and what to know else.

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Windows Update ends with error 0x800f0982 / 0x8024200d

Posted on 2019-03-15 by guenni

[German]In Windows it may happen that the installation of updates (e.g. with the Windows 10 Updates KB4480116 and KB4482887) via Windows Update terminates with the error code 0x800f0982 or 0x8024200d. Here is some information about this error

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Microsoft Security Update Summary (March 12, 2019)

Posted on 2019-03-13 by guenni

[German]As of March 12, 2019, Microsoft released numerous security updates for Windows clients and servers, Office, etc. Here is a compact overview about these update.

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