CVE-2018-8589: Another day, another OS vulnerability
Credit to Author: Nikolay Pankov| Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 09:04:53 +0000
Our exploit prevention technologies detected another zero-day exploit for Windows
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BitLocker on self-encrypted SSDs blown; Microsoft advises you switch to software protection
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2018 16:08:00 -0800
Yesterday, Microsoft released ADV180028, Guidance for configuring BitLocker to enforce software encryption, in response to a clever crack published on Monday by Carlo Meijer and Bernard van Gastel at Radboud University in the Netherlands (PDF).
Windows Defender Antivirus can now run in a sandbox
Credit to Author: Windows Defender Research| Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 17:10:18 +0000
Windows Defender Antivirus has hit a new milestone: the built-in antivirus capabilities on Windows can now run within a sandbox. With this new development, Windows Defender Antivirus becomes the first complete antivirus solution to have this capability and continues to lead the industry in raising the bar for security. Putting Windows Defender Antivirus in a
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Read MoreWin10 1803 big bug bash KB 4462933 joins earlier versions, a week late to the party
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 06:45:00 -0700
Back on Oct. 18, a “C Week” Thursday, Microsoft released hefty rounds of bug fixes for Win10 1607, 1703 and 1709. At the time, I wondered out loud why the latest (unyanked) version of Win10, version 1803, didn’t get a similar dose. Now, on a “D Week” Wednesday, it looks like we’ve seen the deluge.
Microsoft Patch Alert: October’s been a nightmare
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 10:30:00 -0700
This month’s bad patches made headlines. Lots of headlines. For good reason.
You have my sympathy if you clicked “Check for updates” and got all of the files in your Documents and Photos folders deleted. Even if you didn’t become a “seeker” (didn’t manually check for updates) your month may have been filled with blue screens, odd chicken-and-egg errors, and destroyed audio drivers — and Edge and your UWP (“Metro” Store) apps might have been kicked off the internet.
You didn’t need to lift a finger.
Worst Windows 10 rollout ever
Hard to believe that Windows 10 version rollouts could get any worse, but this month hit the bottom of a nearly bottomless barrel. Some folks who clicked “Check for updates” wound up with a brand spanking new copy of Win10 version 1809 — and all of the files in their Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos and other folders disappeared. I have a series of articles on that topic, arranged chronologically:
Zero-day vulnerability in Windows captured by our technologies
Credit to Author: Kaspersky Team| Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 08:12:49 +0000
The Microsoft Windows vulnerability CVE-2018-8453, which was used in several attacks this summer, was detected proactively.
Read MoreWhat the heck is it with Windows updates?
Credit to Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols| Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 03:00:00 -0700
To help make life better for you, my loyal readers, I suffer by running Windows 7 and 10 on two harmless — never hurt anyone in their lives — PCs. Well, I did. But, in the last week I ran into not one, but two, showstopper update bugs.
First, on Windows 10, I was one of those “lucky” people who had files vaporize when I “updated” to Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809). Because I only use Windows for trivial tasks, I didn’t lose anything valuable when the patch decided to erase everything in the My Documents folder.
Somehow, I think most Windows users use Windows for more important work than I do. I hope you have current backups. At least Computerworld’s Woody Leonhard has some good news: You can get those deleted files back.
Microsoft Patch Alert: Despite weird timing, September’s Windows and Office patches look good
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 08:40:00 -0700
As we near the end of patching’s “C Week” (which is to say, the week that contains the third Tuesday of the month), there are no show-stopping bugs in the Windows and Office patches and just a few gotchas. As long as you avoid Microsoft’s patches for Intel’s Meltdown/Spectre bugs, you should be in good shape.
Why a Patch Monday?
On Sept. 17, Microsoft released two very-out-of-band cumulative updates for Windows 10: