Critical vulnerability CVE-2025-23114 in Veeam Updater

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]A critical vulnerability CVE-2025-23114 has been reported in the Veeam Updater. This vulnerability could be used to carry out man in the middle attacks. This affects various products from the provider. Veeam has published corresponding security updates to close the vulnerability.

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Vulnerabilities in Progress Kemp LoadMaster (Load-Balancer) Jan 2025

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]A short note for administrators who use the load balancer LoadMaster from Progress Kemp. On February 5, 2025, a whole series of vulnerabilities affecting older versions of the software became public. The provider has released patches for these, some of which are rated "high" in terms of CVSS rating.

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HP Universal Print Driver Series (PCL 6) vulnerabilities

Windows[German]There are vulnerabilities in older HP Universal Print printer drivers (PCL 6 and PostScript) for Windows. The background to this is that these printer drivers use the libjpeg, libpng, OpenSSL and zlib libraries and may have (older) vulnerabilities. HP has issued a security advisory and driver update on January 29, 2025.

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Microsoft Office 365: Ricoh Scan error "Cannot connect to SMTP server"

[German]It currently that users of multifunction printers with a scan function that use a connection to a Microsoft Office 365 SMTP server are running into issues with certain devices. Users of Rico devices are receiving "Cannot connect to SMTP server" connection errors and an "SSL negotiation failed" message when scanning to Microsoft Office 365 accounts. Various Rico models are affected, for example, but also Xerox Versalink C7030, Kyocera or Sharp devices. The cause is likely to be a change to TLS 1.2 by Microsoft.

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Windows Server 2025 Domain Controller: Trust Relationship with Windows 11 is lost

Windows[German]Another "Beware of Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025" article for administrators who are considering the migration. There seems to be a problem with domain controllers on Windows Server 2025. Windows 11 clients seem to lose the trust relationship after 30 days and have problems renewing passwords.

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

[Sponsored Post]In the rapidly evolving IT world, choosing the right remote desktop software is critical for organizations that value security, ease of use and reliability. One provider of secure remote access that has been on the market since 2001 is ISL Online, which presents some considerations for choosing such software below. More ...


Microsoft Defender: VPN service expires at the end of February 2025

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Microsoft has just discontinued the VPN service (privacy protection) integrated in Microsoft Defender. This VPN service for individual users is to be phased out at the end of February 2025. The use of this function does not seem to have been very widespread, as I read between the lines of the Microsoft announcement.

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Operating system/Windows share (end of January 2025)

Windows[German]It's the beginning of February 2025 and Statcounter's figures on operating system distribution on the desktop are available for January 2025. So what about the figures for Microsoft Windows distribution on the desktop? Windows 10 will no longer be supported in October 2025, so for many users, Windows 11 is the only option.

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Reminder: Driver synchronization in WSUS ends in April 2025

Update[German]A quick reminder for administrators of Windows systems who use WSUS for update distribution. This option for synchronizing driver updates via WSUS will be discontinued by Microsoft in April 2025. In future, Microsoft intends to synchronize drivers for Windows via a cloud service.

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Will the EU-US data transfer agreement be axed by Donald Trump?

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]I see dark clouds looming for data transfer from European organizations to the US cloud? Donald Trump's presidential order also puts the axe to the EU Commission's adequacy decision, which is the basis for the use of the US cloud in Europe. The possibility of the European Court (ECJ )overturning the agreement has risen sharply.

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Microsoft Exchange: When is CU 15 coming? And other news

Exchange Logo[German]Microsoft Exchange 2019 administrators have been asking themselves when CU 15, which has been overdue since 2024, will finally be released. Microsoft has now commented on this in a tech community article and also announced further innovations. Exchange 2019 and CU 15 are already prepared for Windows Server 2025.

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