Category Archives: Security

Many super Computers in Europe down after hack

[German]Several high-performance computers in Europe were attacked by cyber criminals and have since been taken down (means offline from the internet). It is not yet entirely clear what the target of the attack was. Addendum: It seems, the attackers mined … Continue reading

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News on the ransomware attack on Ludwigshafen supplier

[German]New information about the attack by clop ransomware group on the energy supplier of Ludwigshafen, Technische Werke Ludwigshafen (TWL), has become public. Customer data was stolen in the ransomware attack and has now been published.

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Windows Print-Spooler: Exploit for CVE-2020-1048

[German]There is a CVE-2020-1048 vulnerability in Windows print spooler that could allow malicious software to gain elevated privileges. But a patch is available since May 12, 2020, and there are a few restriction to misuse that flaw. Here is a … Continue reading

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Security incident at the Santander Bank website in Belgium

[German]At the Belgian subsidiary of the Spanish Santander bank, a misconfigured web server enabled the indexing of the stored files. When inspecting this data, security researchers from Cybernews came across sensitive material in the form of SQL dumps and JSON … Continue reading

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Patchday Microsoft Office Updates (May 12 2020)

[German]On May 12, 2020 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), Microsoft released various security-related updates for still supported Microsoft Office versions and other products.

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

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Patchday: Updates for Windows 7/8.1/Server (May 12, 2020)

[German]On May 12, 2020, Microsoft released various (security) updates for Windows 7 SP1 (ESU) and further updates for Windows 8.1 and the corresponding server versions. Here is an overview of these updates.

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Patchday: Windows 10 Updates (May 12, 2020)

[German]On May 12, 2020 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft) several cumulative updates for the supported Windows 10 builds were released. Here are some details about the respective updates.

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Microsoft Security Update Summary (May 12, 2020)

[German]On May 12, 2020, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office, Internet Explorer, etc. Here you will find a compact overview of these updates.

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Diebold Nixdorf victim of a Ransomware Attack

[German]The ATM manufacturer Diebold Nixdorf has already fallen victim to a cyber attack with ransomware on April 25, 2020. This was reported by various media.

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Clop Ransomware attack at Technische Werke Ludwigshafen

[German]The power/energy supplier of Ludwigshafen, Technische Werke Ludwigshafen (TWL), was victim of a ransomware attack last week. Now the responsible Clop Ransomware Group has published captured customer data. 

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