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Investor Meridian BidCo LLC acquires majority stake in MariaDB plc
[German]Small addendum from July 25, 2024: It was announced that MariaDB plc has a new majority shareholder. This is a subsidiary of an investment firm. This company has acquired 88.7% of the shares in MariaDB plc and can now determine … Continue reading
CrowdStrike: Investigation report; amount of damages and compensation; attribution of blame
[German]Now that the initial dust has settled after the CrowdStrike incident, which paralyzed 8.5 million Windows systems following a faulty update, new information has emerged. CrowdStrike has presented an initial investigation report into what exactly happened. There are initial figures … Continue reading
OpenAI 2023 hacked – not went public till now
[German]The chatGPT provider OpenAI was the victim of a cyberattack in 2023, in which the attackers were able to access and read the internal chats between researchers and other employees of the company. However, the source code behind the OpenAI … Continue reading
CheckMK also raises its prices
[German]In the article Paessler switches PRTG license model to subscriptions üI had just reported on a change from their license model to subscriptions. The bottom line is that this will lead to massive price increases. But CheckMK has probably also … Continue reading
TeamViewer says in a final report: No customer data leaked during the hack in June 2024
[German]The hack of the remote maintenance provider TeamViewer seems to have gone more smoothly than feared. A state actor (APT29) did have access to the company's internal IT environment. However, neither the production environment with the sources and binaries of … Continue reading
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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 employee accidentally publishes PlayReady code
[German]A Microsoft software developer has accidentally shared internal PlayReady source code with the public (a developer forum). The data leak of 4 GByte is sufficient to compile the required DLL from the source code. This could be a real boon … Continue reading
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Kaspersky Antivirus: Sales and update freeze in the USA; sanctions against Kaspersky management
[German]A heavy blow to antivirus provider Kaspersky. The US government has banned its software in the USA and the product may no longer be sold. And updates may soon no longer be supplied either. In addition, twelve senior Kaspersky employees … Continue reading
Windows 10 Update KB5036979 bug: Right-click shows 'Open With' dialog
[German]A short addendum to the preview update KB5036979 from April 23, 2024 (and subsequent updates). Unfortunately, a bug has "slipped" into this update, which is eating its way through the systems of Windows 10 users. As soon as one of … Continue reading
Critical vulnerability CVE-2024-38428 in wget
[German]There is a critical vulnerability in the command line program wget, which has a CVSS Base Score of 10.0. CERT-Bund warns of the vulnerability, which is contained in wget versions <=1.24.5. An attacker can carry out an unspecified attack. Anyone … Continue reading
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Oracle financial year ends on May 31; opportunity for license deals?
[German]Oracle's fiscal year ends on May 31, and many a salesperson is trying to make a few more euros. So if there are more frequent calls from Oracle sales people, customers could use the sales pressure in license negotiations to … Continue reading
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