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Furthering our commitment to security updates
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Microsoft is committed to delivering comprehensive security updates to our customers. Information about the security updates we release are currently made available on the Microsoft Security Bulletin website. However, our customers have asked for better access to update information, as well as easier ways to customize their view to serve a diverse set of needs. This month we released a preview of our new single destination for security vulnerability information, the Security Updates Guide. Instead of publishing bulletins to describe related vulnerabilities, the new portal lets our customers view and search security vulnerability information in a single online databa…
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MS16-142 - Critical: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (3198467) - Version: 1.0
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Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (November 8, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Continue reading...
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MS16-132 - Critical: Security Update for Microsoft Graphics Component (3199120) - Version: 1.0
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Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (November 8, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The most severe being of the vulnerabilities could allow a remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Windows Animation Manager improperly handles objects in memory if a user visits a malicious webpage. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. This security update is rated Critical for all supported releases of Microsoft Windows. For more information, see the Affected Software and Vulner…
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MS16-134 - Important: Security Update for Common Log File System Driver (3193706) -...
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Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (November 8, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege when the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) driver improperly handles objects in memory. In a local attack scenario, an attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by running a specially crafted application to take complete control over the affected system. An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability could run processes in an elevated context. Continue reading...
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MS16-141 - Critical: Security Update for Adobe Flash Player (3202790) - Version: 1.0
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Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (November 8, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player when installed on all supported editions of Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows 10. Continue reading...
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MS16-140 - Important: Security Update for Boot Manager (3193479) - Version: 1.0
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Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (November 8, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow security feature bypass if an attacker installs an affected boot policy and bypasses Windows security features. Continue reading...
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A closer look at the new Lenovo IdeaCentre Y710 Cube and more great Windows 10 PCs
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There’s a Windows 10 PC built for anything you want to do, whether it’s watching a movie, working in a spreadsheet or playing your favorite games – like Lenovo’s newest gaming PC, the IdeaCentre Y710 Cube, now available at Microsoft Stores and at microsoftstore.com. These devices take advantage of great Windows 10 features, including your digital personal assistant Cortana and compatibility with Xbox Play Anywhere. These devices are redefining the desktop category by taking the desktop from a home appliance – something you keep under your desk – to part of the home décor – something displayed in the living room or on top of the desk to show off. Let’s take a look…
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If you’re looking for an under-21 fake ID, child porn, drugs, tips to cook meth or a hitman, the dark web might just be your best friend. But might it not be so dark, after all? A controversial report claims a lot of fiction may give the onionland an unfairly bad rep. After analyzing 400 random URLs in an automated crawler that scraped information, Terbium Labs says “the majority of the dark web contains perfectly legal content,” mostly porn- and drug- related. The analysis of dark web activity challenges common beliefs that it is mainly a place for criminals to pursue their hidden desires. “These Tor Hidden Services play host to Facebook, European graphic design fi…
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Today we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to apply security updates as soon as they are released. More information about this month’s security updates and advisories can be found in the Security TechNet Library. MSRC team
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Microsoft is committed to delivering comprehensive security updates to our customers. Information about the security updates we release are currently made available on the Microsoft Security Bulletin website. However, our customers have asked for better access to update information, as well as easier ways to customize their view to serve a diverse set of needs.
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Tor, the conduit for below-the-radar browsing, and drugs, weapons and other illegal activities, has been under the microscope by law enforcement in the past two years. In the past months alone, we saw Brian Richard Farrell, who helped run Silk Road 2.0, sentenced to eight years in jail for his work in the dark market. His arrest was part of Operation Onymous, which aimed to take out illegal marketplaces on Tor, back in 2014. Just this week we learned of yet another campaign to take down more illegal marketplaces on Tor. The latest move, Operation Hyperion, was a joint effort by law enforcement agencies in the US, the UK, Europe, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, and …
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Thousands of holders of current accounts with the UK’s Tesco Bank were unable to access online banking on Monday after some accounts were subjected to “online criminal activity” and money was stolen from some accounts. Chief executive Benny Higgins said that “any financial loss as a result of this activity will be resolved fully by Tesco Bank”, and reassured users that any money stolen would be refunded “as soon as possible”. Tesco Bank hasn’t said how the attack happened, nor who might have been behind it. So what should Tesco Bank customers do? The advice we gave to Yahoo customers after it was revealed that 500 million accounts had been breached still holds: c…
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Windows 10 Tip: Four ways to customize the Start menu
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Today, we’re talking all about getting faster access to your favorite apps with the Start menu! With the Start menu, you can pin your go-to apps and files, get updated info from Live Tiles – like weather and headlines, so you don’t even need to open the app – and more! Here are a few ways you can customize it. Pin your favorite content so it’s always at the ready Easily pin or unpin apps to the Start menu by dragging and dropping an app from list, or by right-clicking and selecting “Pin to Start.” After that, you can click and drag to move apps around or right-click the app to resize. Live Tiles will even surface updates so you can stay up to speed without hav…
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Forza Motorsport 6: Apex welcomes new cars and the legendary Nürburgring
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Premium Edition Bundle available now Forza fans on Windows 10 PC can now experience new content in Forza Motorsport 6: Apex, with the launch of the Forza Motorsport 6: Apex Premium Edition. Released today, the Premium Edition includes the base game of Forza Motorsport 6: Apex, along with three newly released content packs for the game; two car collections and a new track pack, bringing the legendary Nürburgring to the game. The Forza Motorsport 6: Apex Premium Edition is available either as a paid upgrade for current Apex players, or as a standalone bundle purchase for players who haven’t yet downloaded Apex before. The Forza Motorsport 6: Apex Premium Editio…
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In October, news broke that the CIA was preparing options to launch a cyberattack against Russia following revelations that the country was likely behind hacks at the Democratic National Committee earlier this summer. Now, a source has told NBC News that the US has penetrated key Russian systems, and will be ready to take action in case the country decides to interfere with next week’s elections. The US is preparing in case it is "attacked in a significant way" The systems allegedly include some of Russia’s telecommunications networks, its electrical power grid, and command systems at the Kremlin. NBC reported that the preparations are being made in the event that t…
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As far as I’m aware, rotary cell phones never existed. The two technologies didn’t overlap much in time, with rotary dials getting replaced by push-button alternatives a decade or so before portable cell phones became popular. But that doesn’t mean rotary cell phones can’t exist now, and YouTube tinkerer Mr. Volt has . It’s beautiful, minimalist, and looks heavy enough to smash a window. The cell phone itself has six basic functions: it can make calls, store a single phone number, text (very slowly), tune into the radio, display system settings, and go to sleep. There’s a 96 x 96 OLED display, its case is made from a mixture of aluminum, brass, and 3D-printed plastic,…
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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare now available for Xbox One or Windows 10
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Today, we’re excited to announce that Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, the latest entry in one of the best-selling video game franchises of all time, is now currently available in the Xbox and Windows Stores. Play Video Restricted Content Confirm your age to continue month JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember day 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 year 2016201520142013201220112010200920082007200620052004200320022001200019991998199719961995199419931992199119901989198819871986198519841983198219811980197919781977197619751974197319721971197019691968196719661965196419631962196119601959195819571956195519…
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This Week on Windows: Forza, Messenger, Minecraft and more
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We hope you enjoyed this week’s episode of This Week on Windows! Head over here to read more about the launch of Minecraft: Education Edition or how you can get started with Windows Hello. Here’s what’s new in the Windows Store this week: Forza Horizon 3 – Alpinestars Car Pack – $6.99, or included in Forza Horizon 3 Car Pass The Alpinestars Car Pack brings seven new cars to Forza Horizon 3. Leading off the pack are a pair of beloved drifting legends, the 1998 Nissan Silvia K’s and the 1990 Mazda Savanna RX-7; two of the most requested cars in the Forza community. The Alpinestars Car Pack is included as part of the Forza Horizon 3 Car Pass, which is available for…
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As we all know, tech support scammers like to use a variety of techniques to fool their victims into calling them up. Some impersonate a target's Internet Service Provider, while others warn a user's hard drive will have its contents deleted unless they call straight away. Clever, but not fool-proof. Thanks to the help of public security awareness campaigns, users are getting wise to these scare tactics. As a result, many scammers aren't placing as great an emphasis on scaring their victims. Instead they're concentrating on denying them access to certain functions of their computer. That's what's going on in this new scam. The ruse makes use of a vulnerabil…
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Forza Horizon 3 Windows 10 demo now available
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Windows 10 players can now get a taste of the epic automotive adventure that is Forza Horizon 3 with the launch of the Windows 10 demo of Forza Horizon 3. Starting today, the Forza Horizon 3 Windows 10 PC demo is available in the Windows Store for no additional charge. In Forza Horizon 3, you’re the boss of the Horizon Festival – the biggest and best cars and music festival in the world. Your goal is to expand the festival to new locations throughout Australia and you’ll get your first taste of what that experience is like in the demo. Along the way, you’ll be able to explore a portion of Forza Horizon 3’s map, while taking a guided tour through some of the best fe…
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Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14959 for Mobile and PC
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Hello Windows Insiders! Today we are excited to be releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14959 for Mobile and PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. The Windows 10 Creators Update Last week, we held an event in New York to share our aspiration to empower a new wave of creativity with the Windows 10 Creators Update and new devices such as the Surface Studio and Surface Dial. You can catch up on all the details on the things we announced at the event by checking out this blog post from Terry Myerson. As I mentioned last week, Windows is an iceberg, the features that people “see” are quite a small percent of the engineering work that we do to enable new UI …
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Introducing Unified Update Platform (UUP)
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We’ve updated over 400 million devices running Windows 10 to date and release new builds to Windows Insiders nearly every week. That is pretty incredible if you think about where we were just 2 years ago. But we know we can do even better! Our customers have told us they would like updates to be more seamless, that they’d like more control over the timing of when updates are installed, that they’d like updating to require less local processing and thus improve battery life, and that they’d like download sizes to be reduced. We’re working on all of the above. In the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, we added active hours and improved the control capabilities for our customers…
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A 19-year-old UK teenager from Hertfordshire has pleaded guilty to creating and running the Titanium Stresser booter service, with which he launched 594 denial of service (DDoS) attacks. According to a statement put out by the Bedfordshire Police, Adam Mudd developed the tool when he was just 15 years old. He didn’t just use it to launch his own DDoS attacks. He also sold it online and ran it as a service, distributing it to cyber crooks. Investigators are still working out the total amount Mudd made from the attacks, but their preliminary estimate is around $385,000. Investigators determined that Mudd’s stressor – which is a tool used to flood networks with d…
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EMET – Then and Now Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing initiative was 7 years old in 2009 when we first released the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET). Despite substantial improvements in Windows OS security during that same period, it was clear that the way we shipped Windows at the time (3-4 years between major releases) was simply too slow to respond quickly to emerging threats.
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On October 21, Google informed Microsoft's security team of a zero-day vulnerability. Google says that the vulnerability in the Windows kernel is being actively exploited in the wild by attackers. Yesterday, a little over a week after telling Microsoft and before a patch has been released, Google has disclosed details of the vulnerability (known as CVE-2016-7855): The Windows vulnerability is a local privilege escalation in the Windows kernel that can be used as a security sandbox escape. It can be triggered via the win32k.sys system call NtSetWindowLongPtr() for the index GWLP_ID on a window handle with GWL_STYLE set to WS_CHILD. Chrome's sandbox blocks win32k.sys …
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