January 16, 2019
The Next Upgrade Will Section Off 7GB of Storage Due sometime in March or April, the next Windows update will do something new. 1903 will section off and hold 7GB of drive space. This sectioning is being called “reserved storage”...
January 14, 2019
Microsoft Releases Fix for Patch Tuesday Blunder When Patch Tuesday rolled out earlier this month, it came with an unexpected problem. Two updates, KB4480970 and KB4480960, created network shares accessing errors. Patch deployment strategies had to be halted and the...
January 9, 2019
Microsoft’s monthly rollup causing network problems When Microsoft releases their monthly ‘Patch Tuesday’ rollup, the idea is to address vulnerabilities causing issues. But sometimes the release creates new issues. This month, that is what has happened. KB4480970 (Monthly Rollup) and...
January 8, 2019
Patch Tuesday Release: The Latest News Microsoft has released 49 security patches today. There are seven Critical severity patches in this release however almost half resolve a remote code execution issue. Eleven of the others are important remote code execution...
December 8, 2017
When Malware Protection Needs Malware Protection An update has been released by Microsoft to fix a major vulnerability in the remote code execution (RCE) of its Malware Protection Engine. According to the CVE-2017-11937 security update, Microsoft believes that the MPE...
October 17, 2017
Urgent: Emergency Flash Update Adobe has patched a zero-day vulnerability used by the BlackOasis APT to plant surveillance software developed by Gamma International. The vulnerability, CVE-2017-11292, was disclosed on 10th October by researchers at Kaspersky Lab, who saw the payload...
October 11, 2017
Will Microsoft Recall KB4041676? There are many reports of issues being encountered by companies who have applied KB4041676 in Octobers Microsoft patch Tuesday release. Issues of failed installations, rolled back installations or Windows being stuck on shutdown / sign-in are...
May 9, 2017
Who defends the Windows Defender? This week we have learned of a serious bug with Windows Defender which could effectively hand over control to an attacker simply by receiving a carefully crafted email – without you even opening it. The...
December 13, 2016
Add Some Layers... To Your Security Grab your hot chocolate and bundle up: it's time to stay inside and catch up on the latest Microsoft updates. On this day of December, Microsoft sent to us … 12 bulletins. The holiday...
November 8, 2016
Old School Macros Finally Get Blocked Today Microsoft have released 14 bulletins in total of which 6 are rated Critical and 8 are rated Important. Last week Microsoft also released 25 KB updates covering Office version 2010, 2013 and 2016....
