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Windows 10: Annoying ads about "End of Support" and for Microsoft account
[German]Users of Windows 10 22H2 must be prepared to be annoyed by various prompts soon. Firstly, there is the full-screen notification that support will end in October 2025. And there is probably a request to finally switch from a local … Continue reading
How to find weak passwords in Active Directory and eliminate them with PowerShell
[Sponsored Post]Weak or compromised passwords are a known gateway for attackers. If you are able to identify which users in Active Directory (AD) are threatened by this, then PowerShell can help to remedy it. However, PowerShell scripts cannot eliminate basic AD deficits, other tools are needed for this. More ...
Windows: Edge 123.0.2420.65 update from March 2024 unintentionally brings co-pilot app; no "spy function"
[German]An "accidental" update to the Microsoft Edge browser at the end of March 2024 led to parts of the Copilot app being installed on Windows 10/11 and Server. Microsoft states that this was not intentional and emphasizes that this app … Continue reading
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Critical PuTTY vulnerability CVE-2024-31497 leaks private keys
[German]The free software PuTTY can be used to establish connections via Secure Shell, Telnet, remote login or serial interfaces with a server. However, there is a critical vulnerability in the software in question (CVE-2024-31497) that can be used to reconstruct … Continue reading
Broadcom accommodates VMware customers with licenses; EU Commission sends questions
[German]The ongoing criticism of VMware by Broadcom's licensing policy by customers may be having an impact. At least VMware by Broadcom has responded to the topic again with a blog post and wants to offer customers with perpetual licenses a … Continue reading
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Citrix: License renewal currently not possible? VMware deprecates old web client
[German]Question for Citrix users: Has anyone tried to renew licenses in the last few days? I have received information that there are "currently" problems getting license renewals from Citrix. And another reader has informed me that VMware is discontinuing their … Continue reading
US CISA orders admins in authorities to mitigate the cyber risks of the Microsoft Cloud
[English]On April 2, 2024, the US cybersecurity authority CISA issued a directive to the administrators of US authorities requiring them to "mitigate" or eliminate the cyber risks posed to customers by a hack of the Microsoft Cloud or the Microsoft … Continue reading
VMware news: Multi-year subscriptions only? End-user products distribution under Omnissa
[German]Here are some news about VMware by Broadcom. I have just been told that VMware by Broadcom could "soon" only accept subscriptions with terms of 3 or 5 years – but this has probably not yet been finalized. And the … Continue reading
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VMware users: Attention, portal migration to Broadcom on April 30, 2024
[German]Brief information for administrators and users of VMware products. VMware by Broadcom has started to clean up its portfolio and change the licenses. For people who have not yet noticed this: At the end of April 2024, the old VMware … Continue reading
Analyses: VMware acts as planned with licenses; switching to alternatives a problem
[German]In the last few days I have come across some information about VMware by Broadcom, which I would like to summarize in a small analysis here in the blog for the interested readership. On the one hand, it looks as … Continue reading
Unsecured Microsoft Azure Server exposes passwords etc. of Microsoft systems (Feb. 2024)
[German]Security researchers from SOCRadar have discovered an unsecured storage server on Microsoft Azure on which internal information about Microsoft's Bing search engine was stored. Well, the storage server, which was freely accessible to anyone, only contained unimportant stuff from Microsoft … Continue reading
