August 18th, 2020 by hankshelp
“Today, we’re announcing that Microsoft 365 apps and services will no longer support Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) by this time next year.
- Beginning November 30, 2020, the Microsoft Teams web app will no longer support IE 11.
- Beginning August 17, 2021, the remaining Microsoft 365 apps and services will no longer support IE 11.
This means that after the above dates, customers will have a degraded experience or will be unable to connect to Microsoft 365 apps and services on IE 11. For degraded experiences, new Microsoft 365 features will not be available or certain features may cease to work when accessing the app or service via IE 11. While we know this change will be difficult for some customers, we believe that customers will get the most out of Microsoft 365 when using the new Microsoft Edge. We are committed to helping make this transition as smooth as possible.”
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July 19th, 2020 by hankshelp
- Adobe security bulletins and updates
- Apple security bulletins and updates
- Browsers-Mozilla updates Thunderbird
- Cisco security bulletins and updates
- Linux updates and patches
- Microsoft
- Patches 17 year old DNS server vulnerability
- Tuesday patches and updates
- security bulletin revisions
- security advisories
- General Security review of last weeks’ vulnerabilities
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February 27th, 2020 by hankshelp
“All large organizations require Print Servers which connects printers to client computers over a network. Print Servers manages the jobs initiated by users based on the printer availability. Microsoft is now working on a new service called Universal Print that will eliminate the need for Print Servers. Universal Print is a cloud-based print infrastructure that will enable great print experiences for both users and IT departments. Universal Print can be deployed on Azure and will be available to business and educational organizations of any size.”
Looks like it may depend on Azure…
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December 29th, 2019 by hankshelp
- Linux updates & patches;
- General Security review of last weeks vulnerabilities
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
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December 6th, 2019 by hankshelp
Microsoft has released a Security Advisory to address an issue in Windows Hello for Business (WHfB). An attacker could exploit this issue on devices that were affected by CVE-2017-15361, also known as Return of Coppersmith’s Attack (ROCA), to take control of an affected system.
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November 28th, 2019 by hankshelp
– THANKS TO BRIAN KREBS
“n Nov. 23, one of the cybercrime underground’s largest bazaars for buying and selling stolen payment card data announced the immediate availability of some four million freshly-hacked debit and credit cards. KrebsOnSecurity has learned this latest batch of cards was siphoned from four different compromised restaurant chains that are most prevalent across the midwest and eastern United States.”
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November 26th, 2019 by hankshelp
I haven’t heard of anyone else reporting this, but just in case, here’s what happened:
I installed the November Cumulative Update (KB4524570) followed by Feature update to Windows 10, version 1909 shortly after 1909 was available (yeah, I’m a “bleeding edge” kind of guy!). Both were installed with no apparent issues.
It was only after I first tried to load TT 2019 that problems popped up. I would get the startup logo, but it would then disappear. The process would show up in Task Manager, but disappear in a second or two. After trying various suggestions via Intuit, I was ready to uninstall one or both of the updates.
One suggestion was to uninstall TT and reinstall it. When you start the uninstall, TT offers to “repair” the installation. Seemed like worth a try.
That was my fix. After the “repair”, TT loaded just fine. I’m posting this in case someone else runs into this “conflict”.
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November 6th, 2019 by hankshelp
November 5, 2019
Office 2016
Update for Microsoft Access 2016 (KB4475539)
Update for Microsoft Office 2016 (KB4484138)
Update for Microsoft Office 2016 (KB4484137)
Update for Microsoft Office 2016 (KB4475588)
Update for Microsoft Office 2016 (KB4475552)
Update for Microsoft Office 2016 (KB4484145)
Update for Microsoft Outlook 2016 (KB4484139)
Update for Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 (KB4484134)
Update for Microsoft Word 2016 (KB4484135)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4484139/november-5-2019-update-for-outlook-2016-kb4484139
This update adds a PreferProvidedEmailInAutoDiscoverAuthPrompts registry key that enables Exchange administrators to specify whether users will be authenticated by using the configured account email or the user principal name (UPN) during AutoDiscover scenarios.
Registry key
Location: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\AutoDiscover
Value Type: DWORD
Value name: PreferProvidedEmailInAutoDiscoverAuthPrompts
Value data:
- 0: It’s the default value. Outlook will use the UPN when it’s available.
- 1: If the value is set to 1, Outlook will ignore the UPN and just use the provided account email
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October 21st, 2019 by hankshelp
“Avast said that it believes that the intrusion, first detected on Sept. 25, was likely targeting its CCleaner business in a supply chain attack. CCleaner, which is software that fights infections in PCs, was previously infiltrated by attackers in 2017 and led to the compromise of 2.27 million people’s systems.”
“Antivirus and security giant Avast and virtual private networking (VPN) software provider NordVPN each today disclosed months-long network intrusions that — while otherwise unrelated — shared a common cause: Forgotten or unknown user accounts that granted remote access to internal systems with little more than a password.”
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