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Is Microsoft’s Outlook.com hack worse than admitted?
[German]The access of unauthorized third parties to Microsoft’s email services such as outlook.com or hotmail.com was deeper than Microsoft first admitted. More details are slowly coming to light. What...
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Useless Media Creation Tool for Windows 10 V1903 released
There are reports, an updated version of Microsoft’s Windows Media Creation Tool (MCT) has (allegedly) appeared, which can be used to create an installation medium for Windows 10. Unfortunately this...
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Windows vulnerability CVE-2019-0859 is exploited
[German]In April 2019, Microsoft closed the CVE-2019-0859 vulnerability in Windows with a security update. Kaspersky security researchers have observed multiple attacks attempting to exploit this...
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Windows patchday issues–one week later (April 17, 2019)
[German]One week after Microsoft released Windows security updates causing install issues, the situation for victims are not clear. Here’s an overview, what we know so far. After Microsoft released...
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Windows 10 Insider Preview 18875 (20H1) shipping stopped
Microsoft has just stopped distributing Windows 10 Insider Preview 18875 (20H1 development branch) for Windows 10 V1903 Insiders. A bug probably causes issues with the update installation. Windows 10...
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Windows Live-Tile takeover from security researcher
[German]Windows 10 Windows 10 (but also Windows 8.x) use Live tiles in Apps to display content in the Start menu. German security researcher Hanno Böck was able to takeover the subdomain for the...
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MDATP Threat & Vulnerability Management verfügbar
Microsoft has just announced MDATP as a Threat & Vulnerability Management solution and released it as a public preview. Threat & Vulnerability Management is a new Microsoft Defender ATP...
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Edge’s Secret Trick Breaks Internet Explorer’s Security
[German]The 0Patch team has developed a micropatch to close a 0-Day Information Disclosure vulnerability in Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10. This vulnerability allows Windows attackers to access...
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Windows 10 V1903 ISOs available in MSDN
[German]Microsoft has surprisingly released the ISO installation images for the Windows 10 May 2019 Update (Version 1903) for MSDN subscribers. MSDN subscribers can now download and test this Windows...
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Windows 7: Mc Afee is causing issues with April Updates
[German]Some Windows users are facing issues with the security updates released on April 9, 2019. Now it became known, that also Mc Afee as virus protection solution probably is causing slow a system...
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Windows 7 shows End of Support notification
[German]It happened during the last time, first people have received the announced notification in Windows 7 that support for this operating system will end on January 14, 2020. I already came across...
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Windows Update Error 0x80246001
[German]Occasionally, Windows users are facing an update error 0x80246001 and the update install process aborts. This can occur on Windows 7 to Windows 10, but also on Microsoft Office. Here is some...
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Windows 10 Sets seems to be dead
Is Microsoft finally burying the sets tested in previous Insider Previews of Windows 10? Now we have a semi-officially confirmation of the farewell to this feature.. Sets were the attempt from...
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Windows 10: Intel Graphics DCH-Treiber 26.20.100.6709
[German]Intel has updated its Intel Graphics DCH drivers to version 26.20.100.6709 on April 18, 2019. The driver is only available for 64-bit Windows 10 versions, but is also compatible with the...
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Windows 10 V1903: Candy Crush Saga out, MS Paint remains
[German]Just a brief information from the world of Microsoft regarding what is considered essential and important in the development of Windows 10. MS Paint remains as an application, but Candy Crush...
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Greetings from the past: PC can now only boot into UEFI
Like a little ‘Schadenfreude’? I just came across a tweet from an ex-employee who was responsible for Windows 8. The guy bricks his Windows devices in series so that they can only boot into the UEFI....
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Windows 10 V1903 requires a 32 GB minium disk space
[German]Microsoft has revised and released the hardware requirements for installing Windows 10 May 2019 Update (Version 1903). Now also 32 GByte storage capacity on the system drive are mentioned as a...
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Windows 10 V1903: External USB storage as Upgrade blocker
[German]Users of Windows systems may experience an unpleasant surprise. Microsoft seems to block the upgrade to the Windows 10 May 2019 Update (Version 1903) as soon as external USB storage devices are...
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Windows issues with April Updates and AV-Programs–root cause known
[German]A little addendum to the April patchday issues in Windows, which were caused by third party antivirus scanners. In the meantime, the root cause for this behavior is known. Antivirus software...
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Is Windows 10 V1903 offered to non-insiders?
Is there anyone of you who is not an Windows Insider and who was offered the feature update to Windows 10 May 2019 Update (V1903)? Here’s the background for my question. I received a reader’s tip via...
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