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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 07:33:00 -0700

As many of us were getting ready for the holiday weekend, after the surprise announcement about Windows being torn into three pieces, Microsoft shoveled yet another load of patches out the Automatic Update chute. Think of it as the software equivalent of a Friday night news dump.

A destructive fix for Total Meltdown

KB 4100480 kicked off the two days from patching purgatory with a Windows 7/Server 2008R2 kernel update for CVE-2018-1038, the “Total Meltdown” bug Microsoft introduced in Win7 back in January. Total Meltdown, you may recall, is a huge security hole implemented by all of these Microsoft security patches:

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ComputerWorld Independent

Microsoft Patch Alert: Windows 7 takes the brunt of March patching problems

March 28, 2018 admin Security, windows

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:30:00 -0700

An enormous number of patches spewed out of Microsoft this month, with two ponderous cumulative updates for each version of Windows 10, a third “bonus” bug fix for Win10 Fall Creators Update (version 1709), and a just-described bug in Windows 7 that’ll leave you begging for a Win7 patch that works.

There’s also a bit of comic relief with a patch for Win10 1709, KB 4094276, that “makes improvements to ease the upgrade experience to Windows 10 Version 1709.” That’s a wonderful example of a self-referential fix.

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ComputerWorld Independent

More Windows patches — and warnings about the Win10 1709 update KB 4089848

March 23, 2018 admin Security, windows

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 06:52:00 -0700

“Hey, Cortana.” (Pause.) “Is my PC working yet?”

It’s getting to the point that patches come flying out of Microsoft on any odd day. On most odd days, for that matter. Yesterday, Thursday, was no exception. On March 22 we saw all of these new patches:

Cumulative Updates for Win10

All three of the active versions of Win10 got cumulative updates — the second set in the past two weeks:

KB 4089848 brings 1709 (Win10 Fall Creators Update) up to Build 16299.334 – seems to have fixed the problem with the January Delta update
KB 4088891 brings 1703 (Win10 Creators Update) up to build 15063.994
KB 4088889 brings 1607 (Win10 Anniversary Update) up to build 14393.2155 – this one’s a bit surprising because 1607 is due to go off life support in a couple of weeks.

We also got Servicing Stack Updates for two of the three active versions of Win10:

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Microsoft Security

Why Windows Defender Antivirus is the most deployed in the enterprise

March 22, 2018 admin Artificial Intelligence, AV-Comparatives, AV-Test, cybersecurity, independent test results, machine learning, windows, Windows 10, Windows Defender Antivirus, Windows Defender ATP, Windows Defender AV

Credit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:58:23 +0000

Statistics about the success and sophistication of malware can be daunting. The following figure is no different: Approximately 96% of all malware is polymorphic meaning that it is only experienced by a single user and device before it is replaced with yet another malware variant. This is because in most cases malware is caught

Microsoft Security

Sharing research and discoveries at PWN2OWN

March 14, 2018 admin Application Guard, Control Flow Guard (CFG), cybersecurity, Microsoft Edge, Pwn2Own, windows, Windows 10

Credit to Author: Windows Defender Research| Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 23:58:49 +0000

The annual PWN2OWN exploit contest at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, brings together some of the top security talent from across the globe in a friendly competition. For the participants, these events are a platform to demonstrate world-class skills and vie for significant cash prizes. For companies like Microsoft, where we have

Independent Krebs

Flash, Windows Users: It’s Time to Patch

March 13, 2018 admin Adobe Flash Player, Chris Goettl, Exchange Server, Internet Explorer, Ivanti, Jimmy Graham, microsoft, Microsoft Patch Tuesday March 2018, office, Sharepoint, Time to Patch, windows

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 19:36:28 +0000

Adobe and Microsoft each pushed critical security updates to their products today. Adobe’s got a new version of Flash Player available, and Microsoft released 14 updates covering more than 75 vulnerabilities, two of which were publicly disclosed prior to today’s patch release. The Microsoft updates affect all supported Windows operating systems, as well as all supported versions of Internet Explorer/Edge, Office, Sharepoint and Exchange Server. All of the critical vulnerabilities from Microsoft are in browsers and browser-related technologies, according to a post from security firm Qualys.

Microsoft Security

How artificial intelligence stopped an Emotet outbreak

February 14, 2018 admin Artificial Intelligence, banking trojans, cybersecurity, emotet, machine learning, malware, Security Intelligence, Security Response, windows, Windows 10, Windows 10 S, Windows Defender Antivirus, Windows Defender AV

Credit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:43:26 +0000

At 12:46 a.m. local time on February 3, a Windows 7 Pro customer in North Carolina became the first would-be victim of a new malware attack campaign for Trojan:Win32/Emotet. In the next 30 minutes, the campaign tried to attack over a thousand potential victims, all of whom were instantly and automatically protected by Windows Defender

Kaspersky Security

Kaspersky Free Antivirus: Free protection for your computers

December 21, 2017 admin free, Kaspersky Free Antivirus, KFA, Products, protection, Security, windows

Credit to Author: Yaroslava Ryabova| Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 14:00:48 +0000

Kaspersky Free Antivirus provides reliable and, yes, free protection for Windows machines