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• Why don’t we patch?

  Posted on August 9, 2021 at 02:41 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  PATCH WATCH

  

  By Susan Bradley

  The vast majority of 2020 and 2021 attacks were not from zero days, but rather were old vulnerabilities for which patches had been released months, or even years, ago.

  Recently, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a document about the top attacks in 2020 and those so far in 2021. Interestingly, many of these vulnerabilities used in attacks are not Microsoft-based but are vulnerabilities in tools we use to access networks.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.30.0 (2021-08-09).

  AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Patch Watch AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Patch Lady Posts, patching, updates

• Wi-Fi stutters every evening like clockwork

  Posted on September 13, 2020 at 21:05 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  LANGALIST

  By Fred Langa

  What on earth could cause a Wi-Fi setup to momentarily fail each night at around the same time?

  Perhaps a rogue scheduled task? A power-savings malfunction? A failed update attempt? An electrical power fluctuation? External electromagnetic interference? Aliens?

  There are many possible causes; here’s how to sort through them.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.36.0 (2020-09-14).

  AskWoody Plus Newsletter, LangaList AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Power conditioning, updates, Wi-Fi interference, Windows tasks

• Where we’re headed with AskWoody Plus — an update

  Posted on September 9, 2019 at 01:15 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  

  LETTER FROM THE EPONYMOUS FACTOTUM

  By Woody Leonhard

  At the beginning of the year, we took over the then soon-to-be-closed Windows Secrets and made it part of AskWoody. It wasn’t an easy transition — and it’s still a work in progress.

  As planned from the beginning, we’ve been working to keep parts of the AskWoody site free to all, while making other parts available only to AskWoody Plus members — those who have supported the site and newsletter through financial contributions.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.32.0 (2019-09-09).

  Special note: If you’re a Plus Member and you didn’t get this newsletter in the past few hours, please drop a line to CustomerSupport@AskWoody.com. We’ll get you sorted out.

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• Why can’t Microsoft reliably patch its own hardware?

  Posted on July 22, 2019 at 01:15 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  WOODY’S WINDOWS WATCH

  By Woody Leonhard

  You don’t need me to tell you that Windows patches are too often of, uh, questionable quality.

  But the latest screw-up with Win10 Version 1903 and top-of-the-line Microsoft Surface Book 2 PCs really takes the cake.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.27.0 (2019-07-22).

  Hardware, Windows 10 AskWoody Plus Newsletter, dGPU failures, Surface Book 2, updates

• July updates come with a few warts

  Posted on July 15, 2019 at 01:05 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  PATCH WATCH

  By Susan Bradley

  This month’s Windows and Office updates are settling in without raising any major alarms. But it’s still early, and caution dictates deferring the patches for another week or so.

  July’s updates do fix a couple of issues from previous months: the IE/Power BI conflict and the Event Viewer error message — both of which impacted just a small number of Windows users.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.26.0 (2019-07-15).

  Patch Watch AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Office, updates, Windows patching

• Windows 7: Preparing for an uncertain future

  Posted on July 1, 2019 at 01:15 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  ON SECURITY

  By Susan Bradley

  By now every Win7 user should know that official support for the venerable OS ends next year.

  The final updates should go out on January 14, 2020 (more MS info) — at least they’ll end for those of us who don’t have deep corporate pockets to pay for extra patches.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.24.0 (2019-07-01).

  On Security, Windows 7 AskWoody Plus Newsletter, safety, Security, updates, Windows 7

• Win10 update crashing other, simultaneous installations?

  Posted on April 1, 2016 at 15:23 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Interesting email from CH:

  I would be interested to see if other people have a similar experience.

  I recently did testing with a Virtual Machine running Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4, which is the server equivalent of Windows 10 v 1511.

  The build version for Server 2016 TP4 is the same 10.0.10586. They even get the same updates.

  While installing other software, the installer did not complete correctly because, and this is from memory, ‘there is another restart pending’.

  I immediately went to Windows Update and found that there are updates installed waiting for a restart while concurrently I was trying to install something else.

  For those who are not aware, Windows Server 2016 TP4 has the same Automatic Update behaviour out-of-the-box like Windows 10.

  Any thoughts or similar experience?

  Windows Patches/Security updates
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