Month: April 2018

ComputerWorldIndependent

Microsoft jiggles — but doesn’t fix — buggy Win7 patches KB 4088875, KB 4088878

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 06:17:00 -0700

Last night we were treated to new versions of the badly banged-up March Win7 patches. It looks like the new ones are the same as the old ones, but the internal handling instructions (the metadata) now force installation of a “Total Meltdown” fix-up patch prior to installing the old patch.

Of course, none of this is documented anywhere.

Starting with Günter Born’s report, and checking the Microsoft Update Catalog, I can see modified versions of:

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MalwareBytesSecurity

Maybe you shouldn’t use LinkedIn

Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 12:00:00 +0000

In light of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica problem, we examined another important social networking platform’s protection of users’ data. The results for LinkedIn users? Not pretty.

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