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  • Microsoft Storage Spaces Bug Slips Through

    Microsoft Storage Spaces Bug Slips Through

    Microsoft has acknowledged a bug in its Storage Spaces feature that leads to file corruption, and is working on a resolution.

    Storage Spaces is a features that uses regular hard drives to provide RAID-style storage redundancy. It’s also a useful way to create a pool of storage from a number of different drives.

    Unfortunately for Microsoft, the latest Windows and Windows Server updates have a major bug impacting Storage Spaces.

    “Devices using Parity Storage Spaces might have issues using or accessing their Storage Spaces after updating to Windows 10, version 2004 (the May 2020 Update) and Windows Server, version 2004,” reads the company’s support site. “When using some configurations, partitions for Parity Storage Spaces might show as RAW in Disk Manager.”

    Unfortunately, “issues using or accessing their Storage Spaces” are just the beginning of the problem, as some users have also reported corrupted partitions and files.

    At this time Microsoft does not have a permanent solution, only a workaround. This is just the latest in a string of issues Microsoft has had with data-eating bugs making their way into major OS releases. Here’s to hoping the company can get a handle on this one quickly.

  • Microsoft Can’t Shake Windows 7—New Bug Rears Its Head

    Microsoft Can’t Shake Windows 7—New Bug Rears Its Head

    Microsoft may have officially ended support for Windows 7 on January 14, 2020, but it seems the operating system (OS) is the company’s bad penny—Microsoft just can’t get away from it.

    No sooner did Microsoft announce that Windows 7 was end-of-life (EOL), than the company had to address a bug wherein a “desktop wallpaper might display as black when set to Stretch.” Now, a more serious bug is affecting Windows 7 users, according to Engadget.

    This latest issue is preventing some users from being able to shut down their PC or reboot it properly. Instead, users are receiving an error saying they don’t have permission to shut down the computer. BleepingComputer says some users have had success with a couple of different troubleshooting options, including disabling Adobe’s Windows services.

    Ultimately, however, no one knows for sure whether it is a third-party bug, or an issue with Windows 7 itself. If it is a Windows bug, Microsoft may find itself breathing new life into its EOL OS with yet another update.

  • Chrome For Android Update Fixes Data Wiping Bug

    Chrome For Android Update Fixes Data Wiping Bug

    Last week reports started surfacing of what appeared to be a data wiping bug in version 79 of Google Chrome for Android. Following a fix, Google has resumed the rollout.

    The issue had to do with Chrome acting as WebView in the most recent versions of Android. Third-party apps that access the web often use Chrome as the rendering engine, rather than bundling one of their own.

    According to Android Police, “when you log in with a web page inside an app, or use browsers like DuckDuckGo that lack their own internal rendering engine, Chrome is responsible for loading that content. Some Android apps actually run entirely inside WebView, such as applications built with Apache Cordova (PhoneGap) or packaged web apps like Twitter Lite.

    “One of the changes in Chrome 79 is that the location where web data is stored was updated. However, as one comment on a Chromium bug page pointed out, data from localStorage and WebSQL — two types of storage commonly used by web apps and packaged apps — wasn’t migrated properly.

    “Long story short, when devices were updated to Chrome 79, web apps and WebView applications had some (or all) local data deleted. While the data is still technically intact, since Chrome didn’t delete old data after the migration, there’s no way to access it right now.”

    The new update addresses this issue and properly migrates the data to the new location. If a user upgraded to the broken version 79, any new data saved to the new location will be overwritten with the original data from pre-79 versions of Chrome. In the event important data was saved to the new location with the broken update, that data can still be accessed and recovered if needed.

    This fix will be a welcome relief to users who originally thought their data was gone.

  • HTC Phones Suffer From Bug That Allows Wi-Fi SSID & Password Theft

    HTC Phones Suffer From Bug That Allows Wi-Fi SSID & Password Theft

    What is up with smartphones and their knack for having so many vulnerabilities just waiting to be exploited?

    HTC is the latest smartphone maker to acknowledge a vulnerability in their software that allows a user’s Wi-Fi password and SSID to to be stolen by a malicious application runnning on the phone according to Bret Jordan’s blog that first revealed the issue.

    Thankfully, HTC has rolled out an update to several phones. Some phones, however, will need to be manually updated. HTC promises more details on the update next week according to PC Mag.

    Chris Hessing and Bret Jordan were the first to report the vulnerability to CERT. The CERT Web site describes the vulnerability as such:

    Any Android application on an affected HTC build with the android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE permission can use the .toString() member of theWifiConfiguration class to view all 802.1X credentials and SSID information. If the same application also has the android.permission.INTERNETpermission then that application can harvest the credentials and exfiltrate them to a server on the Internet.

    The vulnerability affects only a certain number of HTC phones including the Desire HD, Glacier, Droid Incredible, Thunderbolt 4G, Sensation Z710e, Sensation 4G, Desire S, EVO 3D and EVO 4G. The MyTouch 3G and Nexus One are not affected.

    If your phone is one of those listed above, you can download an update starting next week from the HTC help page.

    HTC just can’t seem to catch a break. We reported last December that HTC had many of their phones banned from being sold in the U.S. after a successful patent lawsuit from Apple. HTC had to remove the offending feature from all of their phones.

    Once again, these kind of problems will always come up with smartphones as they move towards being more computer-like. People will attempt to exploit their weaknesses while manufacturers will attempt to patch them as they come up. Just remember to be smart and safe with your smartphones by not storing a lot of personal information, like Wi-Fi passwords, on them.

  • Exclusive: Facebook “Bug” or “Hoax” – The Mystery Explained

    Last week, I wrote about a message on Facebook that was being shared around heavily.

    In my write-up, I walked through this character string, eliminated the extraneous characters, and posited a theory about what it might be.

    In short, this has nothing to do with your phone. The numbers reference individual Facebook accounts and this string returns the name of the person associated with that account. And, they go far beyond 3 digits.

    For example, my Facebook account number is: 722324163. Let’s plug that number into the character string as a status and see what happens: @[722324163:0]

    Hit “Post”. And we get this:

    Simple enough. You get a persons name. And since it is my own account, I get it as a clickable link. If it is not your own, or someone you are Facebook friends with. You get a name, but not linked.

    You can have fun playing with other numbers before the colon. One of the more fun names we found was with the single-digit number “4”. Entered as: @[4:0]

    Hit “Post”. And we get this:

    The lower numbers have consistently returned names of people who attended Harvard in 2004, the earliest Facebook accounts.

    Apparently, this thing is still rolling. Mashable reported on it this afternoon.