Microsoft's POODLE Fix Kills AnyConnect VPN on Windows 8.1

  • 27 February 2015
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By Bogdan Popa    27 Feb 2015
 
Yet another botched update spotted this month
 
Microsoft's February 2015 Patch Tuesday updates surely created plenty of issues to IT administrators and users themselves, as a number of bulletins that the company shipped this month proved to do more harm than good on a number of systems.
 
The last in this series is KB3023607, a patch which, according to Microsoft, disables SSL 3.0 and makes POODLE attacks ineffective against Internet Explorer users.

This patch clearly needs to be installed by users who want to remain protected while browsing the web, but it turns out that it actually breaks down Cisco's AnyConnect VPN. Right now, Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 are said to be the only affected versions, with the error message reading, “Failed to initialize connection subsystem.” Full Article

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