This Week on Windows: E3, the new Surface Pro, Surface Laptop, Windows 10 S and more

2017-06-16 KENNETH 0

This Week on Windows: E3, the new Surface Pro, Surface Laptop, Windows 10 S and more It’s been an action-packed week between announcing Xbox One X and showing 42 new titles at E3, and the availability of the new Surface Pro, Surface Laptop, and Windows 10 S. Head over here to catch up on all the Xbox news out of our E3 Briefing, check out the new gaming devices announced at E3 by ORIGIN PC and Alienware and Dell – or, keep reading for what’s new in the Windows Store! Our This Week on Windows video team is all down at E3 this week, and we’ll be back with a new episode of the show next week! In case you missed it: <!– !function(a,b){"use strict";function c(){if(!e){e=!0;var a,c,d,f,g=-1!==navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 10"),h=!!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv:11./),i=b.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content");for(c=0;c<i.length;c++){if(d=i,!d.getAttribute("data-secret"))f=Math.random().toString(36).substr(2,10),d.src+="#?secret="+f,d.setAttribute("data-secret",f);if(g||h)a=d.cloneNode(!0),a.removeAttribute("security"),d.parentNode.replaceChild(a,d)}}}var d=!1,e=!1;if(b.querySelector)if(a.addEventListener)d=!0;if(a.wp=a.wp||{},!a.wp.receiveEmbedMessage)if(a.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(c){var d=c.data;if(d.secret||d.message||d.value)if(!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(d.secret)){var e,f,g,h,i,j=b.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+d.secret+'"]'),k=b.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+d.secret+'"]');for(e=0;e<k.length;e++)k[e].style.display="none";for(e=0;e1e3)g=1e3;else if(~~g<!]]> <!– !function(a,b){"use strict";function c(){if(!e){e=!0;var a,c,d,f,g=-1!==navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 10"),h=!!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv:11./),i=b.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content");for(c=0;c<i.length;c++){if(d=i,!d.getAttribute("data-secret"))f=Math.random().toString(36).substr(2,10),d.src+="#?secret="+f,d.setAttribute("data-secret",f);if(g||h)a=d.cloneNode(!0),a.removeAttribute("security"),d.parentNode.replaceChild(a,d)}}}var d=!1,e=!1;if(b.querySelector)if(a.addEventListener)d=!0;if(a.wp=a.wp||{},!a.wp.receiveEmbedMessage)if(a.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(c){var d=c.data;if(d.secret||d.message||d.value)if(!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(d.secret)){var [ more… ]

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USN-3319-1: libmwaw vulnerability

2017-06-16 KENNETH 0

USN-3319-1: libmwaw vulnerability Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3319-1 15th June, 2017 libmwaw vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 17.04 Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary libmwaw could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file. Software description libmwaw – import library for some old mac text document Details It was discovered that libmwaw incorrectly handled certain malformeddocument files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening aspecially crafted file, a remote attacker could cause libmwaw to crash,resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 17.04: libmwaw-0.3-3 0.3.9-1ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 16.10: libmwaw-0.3-3 0.3.8-2ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: libmwaw-0.3-3 0.3.7-1ubuntu2.1 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: libmwaw-0.1-1 [ more… ]

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USN-3320-1: zziplib vulnerabilities

2017-06-16 KENNETH 0

USN-3320-1: zziplib vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3320-1 15th June, 2017 zziplib vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 17.04 Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary zziplib could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file. Software description zziplib – library providing read access on ZIP-archives Details Agostino Sarubbo discovered that zziplib incorrectly handled certainmalformed ZIP files. If a user or automated system were tricked intoopening a specially crafted ZIP file, a remote attacker could cause zziplibto crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrarycode. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 17.04: libzzip-0-13 0.13.62-3ubuntu0.17.04.1 Ubuntu 16.10: libzzip-0-13 0.13.62-3ubuntu0.16.10.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: libzzip-0-13 0.13.62-3ubuntu0.16.04.1 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: libzzip-0-13 0.13.62-2ubuntu0.1 To [ more… ]

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USN-3315-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

2017-06-15 KENNETH 0

USN-3315-1: Firefox vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3315-1 15th June, 2017 firefox vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 17.04 Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website. Software description firefox – Mozilla Open Source web browser Details Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user weretricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker couldpotentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, read uninitializedmemory, obtain sensitive information, spoof the addressbar contents, orexecute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5470, CVE-2017-5471, CVE-2017-5472,CVE-2017-7749, CVE-2017-7750, CVE-2017-7751, CVE-2017-7752, CVE-2017-7754,CVE-2017-7756, CVE-2017-7757, CVE-2017-7758, CVE-2017-7762, CVE-2017-7764) Multiple security issues were discovered in the Graphite 2 library used byFirefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website,an attacker could [ more… ]

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MySQL 8.0: Kana-sensitive collation for Japanese

2017-06-15 KENNETH 0

MySQL 8.0: Kana-sensitive collation for Japanese In my previous post, I wrote about the new Japanese collation for utf8mb4 introduced in MySQL 8.0.1! This collation (utf8mb4_ja_0900_as_cs) implements accent / case sensitivity for Japanese as defined by CLDR 30. Today, I am writing about our new utf8mb4_ja_0900_as_cs_ks collation which includes support for kana sensitivity.… Source: MySQL 8.0: Kana-sensitive collation for Japanese