“We’ve updated our Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy”

I’m sure we’ve all seen at least a dozen or so of these types of messages over the last month.  The majority of the changes were brought on by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which is essentially a framework for the collection and usage of personal information gathered within the European Union.

Couple that with the recent revelations of Facebook’s massive data collection, and subsequent breach, and more people are starting to think about their privacy.

This is For Educational Purposes Only.  

WordPress controls approximately 60% of the Content Management System (CMS) market.  The majority of the websites we develop and manage are running WordPress.  With 60% of the market running a single product, it makes a lot of sense to focus attacks on WordPress.  Odds are pretty good you'll be able to recycle work which is why I started thinking about how I would steal WordPress credentials.  

I'm not sure which Windows Update causes this issue but it changes the associations for a number of extensions causing quite the problem.  A system restore failed and I was left to hunt for a solution.  Searching around, I found a number of options but nothing solved the problem until I came across the following Powershell one-liner:

Get-AppXPackage | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}