Category Archives: Security

Microsoft's new Store app installer with telemetry wrapper as a security trap

Posted on 2024-04-24 by guenni

[German]I just reported how the Store team has started repackaging Store apps. An executable .NET wrapper is slapped around the store apps, which smuggles telemetry and other code into the app. This is intended to simplify the installation of store … Continue reading →

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Windows print spooler vulnerability CVE-2022-38028 preferred attack vector for Russian attackers

Posted on 2024-04-23 by guenni

[German]The old print spooler vulnerability CVE-2022-38028 in Windows is probably the preferred target of the Russian hacker group Fancy Bear. This was revealed by Microsoft's analysis of an attack tool ('GooseEgg' malware). However, this attack vector can no longer be … Continue reading →

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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 ...

US cyber expert: Microsoft is a national security risk

Posted on 2024-04-23 by guenni

[German]Lousy security culture, products as full of holes as a Swiss cheese, but "to big to fail and everyone is dependent". That's a description of Microsoft – not mine, but the tenor of the statements made by the former White … Continue reading →

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Data leak at Chinese manufacturer reveals information on surveillance devices

Posted on 2024-04-21 by guenni

A Chinese manufacturer has inadvertently disclosed the data of surveillance devices. An unsecured database, which was freely accessible on the internet, contained 3 billion data records with details of surveillance systems from Chinese manufacturer Raysharp. Advertising

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Critical PuTTY vulnerability CVE-2024-31497 leaks private keys

Posted on 2024-04-18 by guenni

[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 →

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US CISA orders admins in authorities to mitigate the cyber risks of the Microsoft Cloud

Posted on 2024-04-15 by guenni

[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 →

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Unsecured Microsoft Azure Server exposes passwords etc. of Microsoft systems (Feb. 2024)

Posted on 2024-04-11 by guenni

[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 →

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Microsoft Office Updates (April 9, 2024)

Posted on 2024-04-11 by guenni

[German]On April 9, 2024 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for Microsoft Office 2016, as well as the C2R variants (Office 2016-2021 and 365) and other products. Below you will find an overview of … Continue reading →

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Windows Server 2012 / R2 and Windows 7 (April 9, 2024)

Posted on 2024-04-10 by guenni

[German]Various security updates for Windows Server 2012/R2 (1st ESU year) were published on April 9, 2024. Support for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 expired in January 2024. However, updates for Windows Embedded Standard 7 can be downloaded … Continue reading →

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Patchday: Windows 11/Server 2022-Updates (April 9, 2024)

Posted on 2024-04-10 by guenni

[German]On April 9, 2024 (second Tuesday of the month, patch day at Microsoft), Microsoft also released cumulative updates for Windows 11 23H2 to 21H2. Windows Server 2022 and Windows Server 23H2 also received updates. Here are some details about these … Continue reading →

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