Newsletter Archives

• MS-DEFCON 2: .NET and Remote Desktop

  Posted on February 9, 2023 at 02:45 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 20.06.1 • 2023-02-09

  

  By Susan Bradley

  Defer until the February updates are fully understood.

  Even though I don’t anticipate any specific problem with February’s updates, it’s always hard to know for sure. For that reason, the MS-DEFCON level is raised to 2. Don’t be surprised by a Microsoft update before you’re prepared to deal with it!

  Anyone can read the full MS-DEFCON Alert (20.06.1, 2023-02-09).

  AskWoody Plus Alert, MS-DEFCON .NET Framework, Alerts, MS-DEFCON, MS-DEFCON 2, Patch Lady Posts, Remote Desktop, Windows 11

• August updates still dribbling in

  Posted on September 2, 2019 at 01:05 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  PATCH WATCH

  By Susan Bradley

  With August rapidly coming to a close, it’s time to review the status of Windows exploits and any lingering patch side effects.

  The Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) threats — BlueKeep and the follow-on DejaBlues — are still missing in action. To my knowledge, there are no in-the-wild attacks using the original BlueKeep or this month’s BlueKeep II and BlueKeep III.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.31.0 (2019-09-02).

  Patch Watch AskWoody Plus Newsletter, BlueKeep, Office updates, Remote Desktop, Windows patching

• More bugses with the July Win10 version 1903 cumulative update

  Posted on July 14, 2019 at 04:19 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Microsoft has officially acknowledged two bugs created by the May 29 “optional” Win10 version 1903 cumulative update, then sent out for general consumption in the July 9 cumulative update, KB 4507453.

  To quote the Release Information Status page:

  The dGPU may occasionally disappear from device manager on Surface Book 2 with dGPU

  Some apps or games that needs to perform graphics intensive operations may close or fail to open on Surface Book 2 devices with Nvidia dGPU.

  Yes, you read that right. The latest cumulative update for the latest version of Windows on Microsoft’s most expensive piece of hardware can leave the machine gasping for breath. Martin Brinkmann has more details on the Surface Book 2 bug.

  That Surface Book 2 bug had me feeling a bit of deja vu… About a  year ago, Microsoft had a Surface Book 2 problem where the dGPU just went missing, for no apparent reason. At least this time MS acknowledged the problem. It just took a while.

  Also from the Release Info Status page:

  Initiating a Remote Desktop connection may result in black screen

  When initiating a Remote Desktop connection to devices with some older GPU drivers, you may receive a black screen.

  Gunter Born takes the black screen bug to task on Born’s Tech.

  Don’t bother looking for a bug announcement in the KB article. Microsoft hasn’t bothered adding either to the “Known Issues” listing.

  How did the bugs make it through all of that fancy Win10 1903 beta testing?

  Rhetorical question.

  Windows Patches/Security dGPU, Remote Desktop, Surface Book 2