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Microsoft Releases Two New Windows Updates Containing New Spectre 2 Mitigations
Microsoft released yesterday two new Windows Update packages meant to fix the Spectre v2 vulnerability.
- April 25, 2018
- 11:07 AM
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Microsoft Removes Antivirus Registry Key Check for All Windows Versions
Microsoft has decided to remove a mandatory "registry key requirement" it introduced in the aftermath of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerability disclosure.
- April 11, 2018
- 09:30 AM
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AMD Releases Spectre v2 Microcode Updates for CPUs Going Back to 2011
AMD has released CPU microcode updates for processors affected by the Spectre variant 2 (CVE-2017-5715) vulnerability. The company has forwarded these microcode updates to PC and motherboard makers to include them in BIOS updates.
- April 11, 2018
- 05:27 AM
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Microsoft April Patch Tuesday Fixes 66 Security Issues
Earlier today, Microsoft released its monthly roll-up of security patches known as Patch Tuesday, and this month, the Redmond-based OS maker has fixed 66 security issues.
- April 10, 2018
- 02:28 PM
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Microsoft Says Windows 10 Spring Creators Update Will Install in 30 Minutes
Microsoft said on Friday that the upcoming Windows 10 major feature upgrade —dubbed the Spring Creators Update— will take around 30 minutes to install, unlike previous variants that took between one and two hours to complete.
- March 20, 2018
- 08:30 AM
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Microsoft March Patch Tuesday Fixes 74 Security Issues
Microsoft has released its monthly security updates, and this month the company patched 74 vulnerabilities affecting products such as Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Exchange Server, ASP.NET Core, .NET Core, PowerShell Core, ChakraCore, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps.
- March 13, 2018
- 02:47 PM
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Microsoft Admits It Incorrectly Upgraded Some Windows 10 Users to v1709
Microsoft admitted last week that it incorrectly updated some Windows 10 users to the latest version of the Windows 10 operating system —version 1709— despite users having specifically paused update operations in their OS settings.
- March 13, 2018
- 09:43 AM
- 12
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Microsoft Releases KB4090913 Update to Fix Critical USB Driver Issue
Microsoft released yesterday a Windows update to fix driver issues with USB devices introduced in the February 2018 Patch Tuesday security updates.
- March 06, 2018
- 06:17 AM
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Microsoft Partners with Intel to Deliver CPU Microcode Fixes via Windows Updates
Microsoft said today that it would take Intel CPU microcode updates meant to fix the Spectre v2 vulnerability and ship these updates to users via a Windows update package.
- March 01, 2018
- 04:13 PM
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Man Sues Microsoft Seeking New Copy of Windows 7 After Forced Windows 10 Upgrade
An Albuquerque man has sued Microsoft and its CEO —Satya Nadella— seeking a fresh copy of Windows 7 or $600 million in damages.
- February 19, 2018
- 06:42 AM
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Microsoft Issues Windows Out-of-Band Update That Disables Spectre Mitigations
Microsoft has issued on Saturday an emergency out-of-band Windows update that disables patches for the Spectre Variant 2 bug (CVE-2017-5715).
- January 28, 2018
- 03:10 PM
- 12
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Microsoft Resumes Meltdown & Spectre Updates for AMD Devices
Microsoft has resumed the rollout of security updates for AMD devices. The updates patch the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities.
- January 18, 2018
- 12:45 PM
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Microsoft Pauses Rollout of Windows Meltdown and Spectre Patches for AMD Devices
Microsoft has halted the rollout of Windows OS security updates for the Meltdown and Spectre patches for all customer devices that use an AMD CPU.
- January 09, 2018
- 04:48 AM
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Microsoft Says No More Windows Security Updates Unless AVs Set a Registry Key
Microsoft has added a new and very important detail on the help page describing incompatibilities between antivirus (AV) products and the recent Windows Meltdown and Spectre patches.
- January 09, 2018
- 02:00 AM
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Microsoft December Patch Tuesday Fixes 34 Security Issues
Microsoft has released security updates as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday release train, and this month, the company has patched 34 issues affecting eight products.
- December 12, 2017
- 02:06 PM
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Windows 7 Update giving a 80248015 Error? Here's Why and How to Fix It.
If you try to search for new Windows updates on Windows 7, you are most likely getting a 80248015 error. This error is being reported in our forums, the Microsoft forums, and other sites so it appears to be a problem affecting all Windows 7 users.
- December 04, 2017
- 04:23 PM
- 29
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Office Equation Editor Security Bug Runs Malicious Code Without User Interaction
Microsoft has patched today a huge security hole in Microsoft Office that could be exploited to run malicious code without user interaction on all Windows versions released in the past 17 years.
- November 14, 2017
- 08:12 PM
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Microsoft Releases Patch for Older Windows Versions to Protect Against Wana Decrypt0r
Following the massive Wana Decrypt0r ransomware outbreak from yesterday afternoon, Microsoft has released an out-of-bound patch for older operating systems to protect them against Wana Decrypt0r's self-spreading mechanism.
- May 13, 2017
- 05:05 AM
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User-Made Patch Lets Owners of Next-Gen CPUs Install Updates on Windows 7 & 8.1
GitHub user Zeffy has created a patch that removes a limitation that Microsoft imposed on users of 7th generation processors, a limit that prevents users from receiving Windows updates if they still use Windows 7 and 8.1.
- April 18, 2017
- 03:50 PM
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Microsoft's March 2017 Patch Tuesday Contains 17 Security Updates
Today is the March 2017 Microsoft Patch Tuesday and we have 17 security updates being released by Microsoft. Of these seventeen updates, seven of them are rated as Critical as they allow remote code execution on the affected computer.
- March 14, 2017
- 05:43 PM
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