Category Archives: devices

Amazon Echo will send everything you say to Amazon servers from March 28, 2025

Posted on 2025-03-19 by guenni

[German]The Amazon Echo smart speaker can also recognize voice commands. There are now reports that the device will send everything spoken to Amazon servers from March 28, 2025. This is said to have been announced to owners in the USA … Continue reading →

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Roku tests video ads before each use

Posted on 2025-03-18 by guenni

[German]Some users of Roku video streaming devices are currently angry. Whenever they want to stream something via Roku, videos are played at the start that have to be watched by force. According to reports, the US provider Roku has confirmed … Continue reading →

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Tarlogic Security detects unknown commands in ESP32 chip (BlueTooth, WiFi)

Posted on 2025-03-16 by guenni

[German]A very unpleasant story that security researchers from Tarlogic Security have just revealed. There is a set of unknown commands that could be misused as a backdoor in a popular chip that has been built into millions of devices to … Continue reading →

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HP firmware update makes laser printer unusable (Error 11)

Posted on 2025-03-13 by guenni

[German]Next case of "HP rolls out a firmware update for printers and breaks them". The manufacturer HP has released a firmware update for printers which is intended to correct a number of errors. Shortly after the release, numerous users reported … Continue reading →

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Confusion over Brother firmware updates; it's about third-party toner/ink

Posted on 2025-03-08 by guenni

[German]There have been reports recently that users are collecting old Brother firmware versions. The reason: there are fears that new firmware updates will block the use of third-party toner or ink. Brother has now denied that firmware updates impose such … Continue reading →

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

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Vulnerabilities in DigiEver DVRs are being exploited, no patch available

Posted on 2025-03-01 by guenni

[German]DigiEver from Taiwan offers IP video surveillance based on Linux. Security researchers from TXOne discovered RCE vulnerabilities in DigiEver products back in July 2023. The provider does not provide updates because the devices have reached the end of support. Since … Continue reading →

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Windows 11 24H2: Performance issues with Intel Core Ultra 200 CPUs – Feb. 2025 update with side effects

Posted on 2025-02-28 by guenni

[German]The next blog reader with performance problems under Windows 11 24H2 has reached me. The reader set up a system with an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K CPU on an ASRock Z890 Pro RS mainboard and installed Windows 11 24H2. … Continue reading →

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Apple releases emergency update iOS 18.3.1 (Feb. 10, 2025)

Posted on 2025-02-11 by guenni

[German]Apple has released an update to iOS 18.3.1 on 10.2.2025. It is an emergency update, so to speak, which is intended to close an exploitable vulnerability. The update also contains bug fixes. The update installation is recommended for all users … Continue reading →

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HP Universal Print Driver Series (PCL 6) vulnerabilities

Posted on 2025-02-06 by guenni

[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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 2025-02-06 by guenni

[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 Ricoh devices are receiving "Cannot connect to SMTP server" … Continue reading →

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