Firstly, Apple has released iOS Abrams said the list of impacted Apple devices is quite extensive, affecting older and newer models. One of the critical bugs concerns Microsoft Word , and two others are remote code execution flaws in Windows Hyper-V , the virtualization component built into Windows.
The flaw was discovered by the same researchers credited with the discovery of one of two vulnerabilities that became known as PrintNightmare — the widespread exploitation of a critical Print Spooler flaw that forced Microsoft to issue an emergency security update back in July.
CVE is another important bug in Microsoft Exchange Server , which has been under siege lately from attackers. In March, threat actors pounced on four separate zero-day flaws in Exchange that allowed them to siphon email from and install backdoors at hundreds of thousands of organizations.
Kevin Breen of I mmersive Labs points out that Microsoft has marked this flaw as less likely to be exploited, probably because an attacker would already need access to your network before using the vulnerability. So do yourself a favor and backup before installing any patches. I have a old Windows 8 Pro laptop , fighting me with installing security updates. That Net Framework crap permanently needs to go away. Updates downloaded and installed on my Win10 system with no issues.
On my machine that I am typing this up from, it found some old files on my spare E drive. I can remove them with no issues. But on my office computers, it found files on some line of business vendor software that I use. So now what? So they have to get on my system first. But it is interesting to see how the FTC is getting into the act of pushing our vendors to get better.
So if you are a small business tech person like me? Check your computers to see what vendors you need to push. Microsoft has started off the patching year — and not in a good way. Soon after midnight all across the world, mail administrators running Exchange and Exchange started noticing that mail was not being delivered in their organizations.
Susan and I get a lot of email we do our best to answer everyone. We grin and light up when complimented; we grit our teeth and bear it when our correspondents are less kind. And we listen. At the time, we conformed the colors of the levels to the US military DEFCON system, with white level 1 being the most dangerous condition and blue 5 the safest.
The question we kept getting, almost daily, was which was worse, one or five, white or blue? It was politely explained to us that we should have used red and green. We thought this would die down, but the tea leaves were speaking to us — change it! So we did. We did not quite return to the original colors, which used a shade of green for both levels four and five. Instead, we used blue for level four. The new images are in effect now, everywhere. The sunshield has been deployed and now the secondary mirror deployment is completed.
Other alerts will continue as an exclusive benefit of Plus membership , as will emailed alerts and text message alerts. Unless you have a specific need to install them, you should wait until Susan Bradley Patch Lady approves them and any problems have been reported.
Consumer patching should be more cautious due to limited technical and mechanical resources. There were no non-security listings for Office Extended Support will end for Office on April 11, Office also reached End of Mainstream Support on October 13, Oh no, you're thinking, yet another cookie pop-up. Well, sorry, it's the law. We measure how many people read us, and ensure you see relevant ads, by storing cookies on your device.
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They allow us to count visits and traffic sources so that we can measure and improve the performance of our sites. If people say no to these cookies, we do not know how many people have visited and we cannot monitor performance. NET and Silverlight. The IE patch covers eight vulnerabilities that reach all the way up to remote code execution from malicious web pages, and has to be applied to all supported versions from IE6 to IE9.
Silverlight and the. NET framework are also vulnerable to remote code-execution from a malicious page — for client systems, via Silverlight or an XAML-capable browser. One, covering Windows XP and Windows Server , addresses a privilege-escalation issue, the other plugs a remote code execution hole in kernel-mode drivers. Lower down on the priority list are patches for three remote code execution vulnerabilities in Active Accessibility, Media Center and Forefront UAG respectively, and a patch for a denial-of-service vulnerability in Host Integration Server.
The Media Center and Active Accessibility vulnerabilities both require users to be persuaded to open legitimate files that reside in the same directory as a specially crafted DLL file, while the Forefront UAG would depend on persuading users to visit a crafted URL. More details in the Microsoft Security Bulletin, here.
Vivaldi will not provide crypto-wallets in its browser because it doesn't want users to participate in digital coin trading — something CEO Jon von Tetzchner desribes as "at best a gamble and at worst a scam". The move comes a week after rival Mozilla dipped a toe in the crypto-waters , only to have it angrily bitten off. Mozilla initially talked of accepting donations via cryptocurrencies but swiftly backtracked, saying the policy would be paused and reviewed.
Anti-malware veteran Norton also came a little unstuck at the same time thanks to inbuilt crypto-mining tech. Microsoft's cloudy storage platform, OneDrive, is a handy solution for mixed fleets. Using Windows and Mac hardware? No problem; a local-file-like experience is on hand for either environment Linux users, sadly, need not apply for the time being. One facet of the OneDrive experience is Files On-Demand, where the content of files is not downloaded until needed for example, opening up a Word document.
It saves disk space and means OneDrive only downloads what it needs when connected to the internet unless a user has manually specified that a file or folder be always available.
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