Neowin News Feed for: Mitigation

Exchange Server has a "critical" security bug, but Microsoft does not have a proper fix yet

Usama Jawad — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:44:02 +0000

Microsoft warns of a critical Exchange Server flaw that could let attackers hijack browsers through emails, with full fixes locked behind paid support for some. Read more...

December Patch Tuesday has broken Network Adapters in Hyper-V hosts on Windows Server

Usama Jawad — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 05:58:01 +0000

Microsoft confirms the process to create new Network Adapters joined to a VM network on Hyper-V hosts in Windows Server is broken since the last Patch Tuesday. Temporary mitigation has been issued. Read more...

Microsoft issues advisory about two 0-day vulnerabilities in Exchange Server, no fix yet

Usama Jawad — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 13:42:01 +0000

Microsoft has issued an advisory about two 0-day vulnerabilities affecting on-premises installations of Exchange Server. Unfortunately, no fix is available yet but there are a couple of mitigations. Read more...

KB5012643 is causing issues with some apps in Windows 11, but there's a workaround

Usama Jawad — Wed, 04 May 2022 11:28:01 +0000

Windows 11's latest optional update (KB5012643) is causing yet another problem, this time affecting .NET Framework 3.5 apps. Microsoft has released some workarounds but is working on a long-term fix. Read more...

Microsoft patches security vulnerability allowing data leaks in Azure Container Instances

Usama Jawad — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 06:08:02 +0000

Microsoft has patched a security flaw in the Azure Container Instances services that allowed data to leak across customers using the same clusters. Potentially affected customers have been notified. Read more...

Microsoft provides further mitigations for PrintNightmare exploit, awards it "high" severity

Usama Jawad — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 05:12:01 +0000

Microsoft has offered some further mitigations against the highly dangerous PrintNightmare exploit. The company has also given it a CVSS rating of 8.8/10, which almost awards it "critical" severity. Read more...

Over 370,000 Exchange Server instances have now been patched or mitigated

Usama Jawad — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 17:00:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced that based on the telemetry data it has been observing from 400,000 on-premises Exchange Server IPs, 92% have applied patches to mitigate the ongoing security vulnerabilities. Read more...

Microsoft Defender will now automatically break the attack chain in Exchange Server exploits

Usama Jawad — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 16:04:01 +0000

Microsoft has enabled Defender Antivirus to automatically mitigate a recent vulnerability in on-premises Exchange server instances. This acts only as a temporary workaround to break the attack chain. Read more...

Next Windows 10 feature update to make your PC faster following Spectre slowdowns

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 09:24:01 +0000

Following the discovery of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities in Intel processors, the resulting fixes for the issue slowed down many PCs. The next feature update to Windows 10 may change that. Read more...

Spectre Variant 4 disclosed, mitigations to result in another performance hit

Usama Jawad — Tue, 22 May 2018 04:52:01 +0000

New variants of Spectre have been discovered by Microsoft and Google, which allow attackers to read privileged data. While mitigations will be available soon, they will result in a performance hit. Read more...

Ubuntu will fix Meltdown and Spectre by January 9th

Paul Hill — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 10:40:01 +0000

The popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu, will receive patches for the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities by Janurary 9th. Canonical has been hard at work over the holidays crafting a patch. Read more...