Category Archives: browser

Chrome, Edge, Office, VMware ESXi hacked at TMC 2019

[German]The TMC 2019 took place in Chengdu, China, on the weekend of 16-17 November 2019. It is a hacker competition (TifanCup 2019), where the best hacker teams of China compete against each other. Once again, there were a lot of … Continue reading

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Experimental Chrome feature has caused crashes

[German]Google's developers have rolled out some experimental feature to some of its chrome users. But this went wrong and making enterprise customers going nuts. Suddenly, users couldn't access websites anymore or the tabs were white due to browser crashes.

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Tor-Browser 9.0.1 released

On November 4, 2019, the developers updated the Tor browser to version 9.0.1. This is a maintenance update that fixes several bugs and updates components.

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Security update for Google Chrome 78

[German]Google's developers have released an update to version 78 of the Chrome browser's (build 78.0.3904.87) to address two critical vulnerabilities. One vulnerability is already exploited.

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Chrome 78 released

[German]Google eleased the Google Chrome browser version 78 on October 22, 2019. In this major version there are some new features, so Google wants to support DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH).

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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 Security Advisory (October 8,/10, 2019)

[German]Another supplement from last week. Microsoft has published Security Advisory for the 8th and 10th of October 2019, which I will post here.

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Windows 10 V1903: Update KB4517389 breaks Edge Browser [Fix]

[German]A brief information for users of Windows 10 version 1903 who suddenly have issues with the Edge browser, which won't launch. It is due to the cumulative update KB4517389, which was released on October 8, 2019. Microsoft is aware of … Continue reading

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Firefox 69.0.2 released – Beware Update on Windows 10

[German]Mozilla's developers released version 69.0.2 of the Firefox browser last week (October 3, 2019). It is a maintenance update which should fix bugs. Here is a brief overview of what changes in the new version. However, you should be careful … Continue reading

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Windows/IE: Issues and confusion with updates (10/03/2019)

[German]Microsoft has released a cumulative security update for Internet Explorer on October 3, 2019, as well as an optional bug fix update for various Windows versions to fix the printer bug. At the end of the day, it turns out … Continue reading

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Windows: Vulnerabilities in IE and Defender (09/23/2019)

[German]On September 23, 2019, Microsoft unexpectedly released unscheduled security updates for Windows Defender, Microsoft Security Essentials, other security products, and Internet Explorer, which is expected to close vulnerabilities.

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