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On August 15, 2024, Microsoft announced a critical update addressing a significant issue that caused many Windows 10 and Windows 11 PCs to boot into BitLocker recovery mode. This problem emerged after the installation of security updates on July 2024, leaving users unable to access their systems...

Recently, on May 23, 2024, Microsoft issued an out-of-band update KB5039705 (OS Build 17763.5830) to rectify issues related to the installation failure of the May 2024 Windows security update. This unexpected update came to address specific problems encountered by users during the installation...

On July 9, 2024, Microsoft released the KB5040442 update for Windows, including OS Builds 22621.3880 and 22631.3880 . This update comes with essential security patches and improvements for Windows 11, with specific enhancements for versions 22H2 and 23H2. Windows 11 End of Service Notice The...

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Hi, I'm using Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard, and I have "MS12-073: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft IIS Could Allow Information Disclosure" vulnerability in my production server. When I search the internet for this, all I can see is that this is the issue for Vista, 2008, 7, and 2008 R2 , not...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (March 14, 2017): Click here to enter text. Summary: This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker with access to the local system executes a malicious...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (June 14, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if the Web Proxy Auto Discovery (WPAD) protocol falls back to a vulnerable proxy...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (May 10, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The more severe of the vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logs on to an affected system and runs a...

How to get this game working after this update was added.The game being Medieval Total War and was able to play on Win 7 before this update. Microsoft released a security patch in September, KB3086255

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Resolves a vulnerability in the canonical display driver (cdd.dll) that could allow code execution. More...

Resolves a vulnerability in ASP.NET that could allow information disclosure. An attacker that successfully exploited this vulnerability could read data, such as the view state, which was encrypted by the server. More...

Resolves a vulnerability that could allow for the elevation of privilege on a computer that is running Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. More...

Resolves a vulnerability in Windows Movie Maker and Microsoft Office Producer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 that could allow remote code execution if an attacker sent a specially crafted Movie Maker or Producer file. More...

Resolves vulnerabilities in Windows Task Scheduler that could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logged on to an affected system and ran a specially crafted application. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on... More...

Resolves a vulnerability in Windows Media Center that could allow remote code execution if an attacker convinces a user to open a legitimate file that is located in the same network directory as a specially crafted dynamic link library (DLL) file. More...

Resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows that could allow remote code execution if an attacker sent a specially crafted SMB response to a client-initiated SMB request. More...

Link Removed Some of you might have seen today's story by Gregg Keizer of our sister publication Computerworld headlined "Link Removed due to 404 Error" and may have asked the same question I asked. Two minutes? Dutch hacker Peter Vreugdenhil broke into the current edition of the Web browser...