PC Security and Other Useful Information

Cathay Pacific Breach Hits Over 9 Million Customers

MS Posts New Win10 1809 Group Policy Reference Thanks to Fellow MVP, Ed Tittel, MVP for pointing this out. “These spreadsheets list the policy settings for computer and user configurations that are included in the Administrative template files delivered with the Windows operating systems specified. You can configure these policy settings when you edit Group […]

Hard Disk Cleanup and Temp Files Removal This document was published by Roy Adams. Well worth the read for everyone. Notice: Please exercise caution using these techniques and tools! Make sure you understand what each is doing and the potential issues that each can have if use improperly.

Security Mailer Volume 18 Number 43 Cisco Security Advisories Open Source Apache Server release X.Org Server patch affect OpenBSD and most Linux distros Linux updates Windows More Windows 10 1809 problems New Windows 10 1803 released fixing 43 bugs General Security reviews last week Covers the approaching changes in TLS

Windows 10 Version 1809 Suffers from Yet Another Data Loss Bug The problems with Zipped files appears to be worse than previously thought. 24Oct18 Update: According to Microsoft, unpacking a ZIP file into a folder that has one or more of the files already existing does not replace the existing file(s) What happens is that the […]

Keyboard shortcuts in Windows I’m not big on keyboard shortcuts, but sometimes they come in handy. Here’s about as complete a list as I’ve seen.

Even After Microsoft’s Fix, Windows 10’s 1809 Update Is Still Botching File Operations This time, it’s the “unzip” function that appears to have problems. Not sure yet how wide spread it is, but be prepared to install a 3rd party unzip program!!

Security Mailer Volume 18 Number 42 Cisco Security Advisories Oracle released JAVA updates Linux updates Microsoft update revisions Windows 10 update issues continue General Security reviews last week vulnerabilities VMware Security Advisory

Multiple D-Link Routers Open to Complete Takeover with Simple Attack “Eight D-Link routers in the company’s small/home office “DWR” range are vulnerable to complete takeover – but the vendor said it is planning on only patching two, according to a researcher. Błażej Adamczyk of the Silesian University of Technology in Poland discovered the vulnerabilities in […]

Restart stuck on “Stage 2 of 2” or “Stage 3 of 3” “After you install update 3177467 together with other updates, a restart may be required to complete the installation. During this restart, you may find yourself stuck on “Stage 2 of 2” or “Stage 3 of 3”. If you encounter this issue, press Ctrl+Alt+Delete […]