Monthly Archives: November 2022

Microsoft Office Online Server: Unfixed RCE vulnerability

[German]As of November 8, 2022, Microsoft has released security updates for its Office Online servers to close vulnerabilities in Word and Excel. According to my information, a vulnerability exists (Server-Side Request Forgery, SSRF, to RCE, Remote Code Execution) that Microsoft … Continue reading

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Windows 10 21H1-22H2: Out-of-the Box Experience update KB5020683 (Nov. 11, 2022)

[German]Microsoft has released a so-called Out-of-the-Box Experience Update for Windows 10 on November 11, 2022, surprisingly for me. This is already available for Windows 10 versions 21H1, 21H2 and 22H2, but it only applies to systems with Windows 10 Home … Continue reading

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Windows 11 22H2: Game performance issues confirmed by Microsoft

[German]Microsoft has confirmed a gaming performance issue on Windows 11 version 22H2 as of November 10, 2022. Stuttering or similar problems can occur in some games and applications. The cause is probably an unintended activation of the GPU performance debugging … Continue reading

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Russian-Canadian lockbit affiliate arrested in Canada

[German]Law enforcement officials have now struck a blow against a member (or an affiliate, who obtains the ransomware in exchange for participation and uses it on his own account) of the Lockbit ransomware gang. A person with Russian-Canadian citizenship was … Continue reading

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

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Medibank and Deutsche Bank hacked by the same thread actor

[German]Currently, the hack of the Australian healthcare company Medibank is shaking Down-Under. This is because the attacker is offering millions of patient data on the darknet. Shortly before that, the Australian telecom provider Optus was hacked and millions of customer … Continue reading

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DirectAccess fails after Windows Updates from November 2022

[German]There seems to be a problem with the November 2022 security updates for Windows. At least for Windows 11 22H2, I have reports that DirectAccess connections in the network no longer work after the update installation. But there are also … Continue reading

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iOS/iPadOS 16.1.1 released

[German]Apple has released iOS/iPadOS 16.1.1 for newer iPhone and iPad models on November 9, 2022. It is a security and maintenance update that is supposed to fix a WLAN problem.  Thanks to Gerold for the tip.

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Deleted Citrix Advisory CTX474060 says "ADCs shows up to version 13.1 33.x license status as 'freemium' after upgrade"

[German]I'm not sure if this affects anyone in the readership. Do you have Citrix Netscaler (ADC) installations that show a "Freemium" license status after an upgrade? Citrix has published an advisory as of November 8, 2022, but it was deleted … Continue reading

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Updates for Windows (Nov. 2022): Changes in Netlogon and Kerberos protocol – causing issues

[German]Another small addendum to the November 2022 patchday. With the security updates of November 8, 2022, Microsoft has also initiated a gradual change to the Netlogon and Kerberos protocols. The whole thing will be carried out in several stages until … Continue reading

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Patchday: Microsoft Office Updates (November 8, 2022)

[German]On (November 8, 2022 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for still-supported Microsoft Office versions and other products. The updates are available for the installable MSI version of Microsoft Office (the click-to-run packages obtain … Continue reading

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