This Week on Windows: Windows 10 Creators Update, new Surface devices and more

2016-10-29 KENNETH 0

This Week on Windows: Windows 10 Creators Update, new Surface devices and more We hope you enjoyed this week’s episode of This Week on Windows! This week, we’re all about the Microsoft Windows 10 Event. Keep reading to catch up on everything we announced. The Windows 10 Creators Update – coming early 2017 Coming as a free update early next year to the more than 400 million devices running Windows 10 the Creators Update will bring 3D and mixed reality to everyone, empower every gamer to be a broadcaster, connect people faster to those they care about most, and much more. Surface Studio, Surface Dial and a new Surface Book Introducing Microsoft Surface Studio. Turn your desk into a Studio with a brilliant screen for your ideas. #MicrosoftEvent pic.twitter.com/oqCDOlP9OW — Surface (@surface) October 26, 2016 From the beginning, our Surface journey [ more… ]

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RHSA-2016:2124-1: Important: kernel security and bug fix update

2016-10-28 KENNETH 0

RHSA-2016:2124-1: Important: kernel security and bug fix update Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. CVE-2016-1583, CVE-2016-5195 Source: RHSA-2016:2124-1: Important: kernel security and bug fix update

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WordPress 4.7 Beta 1

2016-10-28 KENNETH 0

WordPress 4.7 Beta 1 WordPress 4.7 Beta 1 is now available! This software is still in development, so we don’t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 4.7, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the beta here (zip). WordPress 4.7 is slated for release on December 6, but we need your help to get there. We’ve been working on a lot of things, many of them to make getting your site set up the way you want it much easier. Here are some of the bigger items to test and help us find as many bugs as possible in the coming weeks: Twenty Seventeen – A brand new default theme brings your site to [ more… ]

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USN-3111-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

2016-10-28 KENNETH 0

USN-3111-1: Firefox vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3111-1 27th October, 2016 firefox vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in Firefox. Software description firefox – Mozilla Open Source web browser Details A use-after-free was discovered in service workers. If a user were trickedin to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentiallyexploit this to cause a denial of service via program crash, or executearbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5287) It was discovered that web content could access information in the HTTPcache in some circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit thisto obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2016-5288) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 16.10: firefox 49.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.16.10.2 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: firefox 49.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 Ubuntu 14.04 [ more… ]

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USN-3112-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

2016-10-28 KENNETH 0

USN-3112-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3112-1 27th October, 2016 thunderbird vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird. Software description thunderbird – Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client Details Catalin Dumitru discovered that URLs of resources loaded after anavigation start could be leaked to the following page via the ResourceTiming API. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially craftedwebsite in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit thisto obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2016-5250) Christoph Diehl, Andrew McCreight, Dan Minor, Byron Campen, Jon Coppeard,Steve Fink, Tyson Smith, and Carsten Book discovered multiple memorysafety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening aspecially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit these [ more… ]