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Microsoft says admins are seeing 0x80073cf2 errors when using the System Preparation tool to validate Windows installations for deployment after installing recent Windows 10 updates. Sysprep helps prepare Windows client or Windows Server installations for imaging and deployment on any system by removing computer-specific information such as installed drivers and the computer security identifier.
Microsoft has released the January 2024 preview update for Windows 10, version 22H2, which adds Digital Markets Act compliance in the European Economic Area to allow European users to uninstall all apps in Windows by March 6. The KB5034203 is a monthly non-security optional cumulative update that enables Windows administrators to try out fixes and improvements that will come with the February 2024 Patch Tuesday release.
Apple on Monday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and Safari web browser to address a zero-day flaw that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The issue, tracked as...
Google on Tuesday released updates to fix four security issues in its Chrome browser, including an actively exploited zero-day flaw. The issue, tracked as CVE-2024-0519, concerns an out-of-bounds...
Adblock and Adblock Plus users report performance issues on YouTube, initially blamed on Google but later determined to be an issue in the popular ad-blocking extension. BleepingComputer confirmed the issues after installing the Adblock Chrome extension, which caused YouTube to become very slow, making the site hard to navigate and for videos to load very slowly.
Criminals are exploiting a Windows Defender SmartScreen bypass vulnerability to infect PCs with Phemedrone Stealer, a malware strain that scans machines for sensitive information - passwords, cookies, authentication tokens, you name it - to grab and leak. That file exploits CVE-2023-36025 to evade the Windows SmartScreen as it downloads and opens a.cpl file, which is a Windows control panel item.
GitLab has released security updates to address two critical vulnerabilities, including one that could be exploited to take over accounts without requiring any user interaction. Tracked...
Microsoft has released a PowerShell script to automate updating the Windows Recovery Environment partition in order to fix CVE-2024-20666, a vulnerability that allowed for BitLocker encryption bypass. As Microsoft explains, this happens because instead of displaying a CBS E INSUFFICIENT DISK SPACE error when the WinRE partition is not large enough, Windows Update incorrectly says the generic "0x80070643 - ERROR INSTALL FAILURE" error message instead. ?This happens because the WinRE image file deployed when installing the KB5034441 security update is too large for the recovery partition.
Windows 10 users worldwide report problems installing Microsoft's January Patch Tuesday updates, getting 0x80070643 errors when attempting to install the KB5034441 security update for BitLocker. Windows 10 creates a recovery partition, usually around 500 MB, which is not large enough to support the new Windows RE image file, causing the 0x80070643 error when attempting to install the update.
Microsoft has addressed a total of 48 security flaws spanning its software as part of its Patch Tuesday updates for January 2024. Of the 48 bugs, two are rated Critical and 46 are rated Important...