Page 151 - Visual Studio News Today

Windows 10: Update crashing apps, causing Blue Screen of Death By Angelica Leicht, Komando.com Software updates are a useful, necessary part of technology. When updates roll out, they can add a ton of exciting features to the mix, clean up annoying bugs or patch security issues that leave you vulnerable to all sorts of issues. Unfortunately, Windows updates don’t always go as planned. There are reports of serious issues occurring for some Windows users after another recent update. Her...

Two Windows 10 updates are causing issues on Windows 10 right now. The issues cause the Blue Screen of Death to appear on some PCs and can also cause apps to crash.

| Ahead of Patch Tuesday, a cautionary tale As always, the second Tuesday of the month is a big day for Microsoft updates and patches. But even for versions of Windows 10 the company says are business-ready, issues can crop up. Traitov / Getty Images Microsoft has officially deemed Windows 10 version 2004 as “ready for business,” but I’d argue it still needs a bit more help to be fully ready for consumers. With this month’s Patch Tuesday upon us, here’s an exam...

Microsoft has acknowledged that two recent updates for Windows 10 are causing problems for users. People who have installed KB4598299 and KB4598301 are reporting BSoDs as well as app crashes.

What you need to know Visual Studio 2019 has several improvements that speed up build and link time for game developers. The improvements help developers of games such as Forza Horizon 4 spend more time writing code. Link times in Visual Studio 2019 are 18.15 times faster than in Visual Studio 2017. Visual Studios C++ team improved the build and link times for Visual Studio 2019, which resulted in link times that are 18.15 times faster than in Visual Studio 2017. As a result, game developers of...

Prominent cybersecurity researchers among those targeted in North Korean hacking campaign Industry shocked by APT-linked attacks exploiting zero-day browser and OS vulnerabilities Security researchers are becoming the target of a widespread hacking campaign attributed to North Korea’s state-sponsored actors. Yesterday (January 25), Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) disclosed details of the operation she claims was carried out by attackers supported by the North Korean government. Recomme...

The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004 (aka, the April 2020 version of Windows), in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been no announcement, and the documentation has not been updated. This isn’t the first time this has happened, but this change seems bigger than last time. So far I have found three programs that hit problems because of this silent change. This post was an accidental duplicate. The content has been delet...

By Juha Saarinen on Jan 29, 2021 9:25AM Microsoft attributes campaign to familiar North Korean threat actors. The recent hacking campaign targeting penetration testers, private offensive security researchers and other infosec workers was undertaken by the North Korean state-sponsored Lazarus Group, Microsofts Threat Intelligence Centre said. Microsoft tracks the threat actors as ZINC, and based on observed techniques, malware used in the attacks, and ac...

Google says North Korean hackers are targeting security researchers by Grant Gross Print this article A group of North Korean hackers is attempting to compromise cybersecurity researchers through an intricate campaign, including a bogus cybersecurity blog and fake Twitter accounts, according to Google’s Threat Analysis Group. TAG claims that the hacking group is backed by the North Korean government and is using a combination of a “novel” social engineering campai...

The Hackers Microsoft says it started tracking the campaign by this North Korean-linked group in mid-2020. The hackers started by building a reputation in the security research community through Twitter by retweeting and posting high-quality security content and other material related to exploit research. The hackers controlled other social media accounts and used these to amplify the other posts, Microsoft says. After building their reputation, the hackers started approaching potential targets...