I was "informed" yesterday by email titled "Third-Party Data Breach Affecting Uphold Users", claiming, that there had been a "data breach" at a third-party provider affecting Uphold users. Uphold is a platform that provides a wallet for cryptocurrency. But this is just scam. I'll summarize some information and explain why you should probably should stay away from the whole thing.
An update to the new Outlook app, rolled out on December 5, 2025, causes issues. After that update, users recognized, that the app no longer starts. Clicking on the icon does nothing. Many users seems to be affected.
WordPress 6.9 was released on December 2, 2025 (I reported on this in the post WordPress 6.9 erschienen). I had to revert back to version 6.8.3 from October 2025 within my German IT blog because WordPress version 6.9 causes short "delays" on first attempt to access the site. Read more in this post (use build in site translate to switch to your language).
[German]A little story from the campfire as a Sunday sermon that caught my attention this week. One user had a problem with repeated packet loss on his WiFi connection. He set out to investigate and stumbled upon an incredible story. No, it wasn't the cat that had chewed through the cables.
[German]It has just been announced that Virtualbox 7.1.12 and 7.2.2 contain the CVE-2025-62641 vulnerability. This could allow attackers to take over the host. There are also other vulnerabilities in these versions. Virtualbox 7.1.14 and 7.2.4 provide a remedy.
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[German]A critical vulnerability, CVE-2025-54236, has been found in Adobe Commerce software (formerly Magento). Adobe Commerce allows unauthenticated attackers to upload files and, ultimately, even take over accounts. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.1 (on a scale of 1 to 10) and is classified as critical.
[German]I'm bringing up another topic that actually shows that it prohibits the use of Microsoft OneDrive for storing personal content. That's because Microsoft is testing AI-powered facial recognition using family photos stored on OneDrive.
[German]A German user pointed out a major umlaut bug in OneDrive that is causing problems for Azure users. Clients running Windows 11 25H2 cannot access OneDrive if the Azure username in the profile contains an umlaut.
[German]There are out-of-band updates (e.g., KB5070883 for Windows Server 2019) that Microsoft released on October 23, 2025. The purpose of these emergency updates is to close a critical vulnerability in WSUS. The remote execution vulnerability CVE-2025-59287 has been rated with a CVSS score of 9.8. OOB updates have been released for all server editions still available. Administrators should take action.
[German]The security updates for Windows released on October 14, 2025 cause the preview of files (e.g., PDF documents or Office documents) in Explorer to be blocked in some cases. I described the problem in Part 1. On October 22, 2025, Microsoft published an FAQ on this topic—this is by design and for security reasons.
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