Category Archives: Security

Flash and Silverlight get blocked in Office 365 documents

Posted on 2018-05-23 by guenni

Microsoft announced plans to restrict the use of Flash, Shockwave, and Silverlight controls in Office 365. This policy changed for security reason.

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Thunderbird 52.8.0 released

Posted on 2018-05-20 by guenni

[German]Mozilla's developers have released version 52.8.0 of the email client Thunderbird. This is a maintenance update which closes various (sometimes critical) vulnerabilities.

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Microsoft Security Update Releases – May 15, 2018

Posted on 2018-05-20 by guenni

Microsoft has revised some Security Update Releases on May 15, 2018. Here is a short list, what has been changed. Addendum: Update revision from May 18, 2018 added.

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Exchange 2010 Update Rollup 0 KB4091243 (05/08/2018)

Posted on 2018-05-19 by guenni

[German]Another small supplement to Patchday 8 May 2018, Microsoft has also released an update rollup 0 (KB4091243) for Exchange 2010 on this date.

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0day patch for CVE-2018-8174 available

Posted on 2018-05-15 by guenni

[German]0patch has released a 0day patch to fix a critical vulnerability (CVE-2018-8174) in Windows VBScript Engine. This will be helpful for users who are not able to install May 2018 security updates due to issues.

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Adobe Reader DC security update

Posted on 2018-05-15 by guenni

[German]Firma Adobe has published on May 11, 2018 an Advanced Security Bulletin, mentions a vulnerability in Adobe Reader DC. A security update has been released on May 14, 2018.

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Vulnerability in PGP and S/MIME

Posted on 2018-05-14 by guenni

[German]Security researcher found a critical vulnerability in encryption used by PGP and S/MIME during encrypting e-mails. This results that encrypted messages may contain data in plain text and also old encrypted messages can be decrypted afterwards.

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100.000+ systems infected by Chrome extensions

Posted on 2018-05-14 by guenni

[German]Once again it's the old story: Users drag extensions for Google's Chrome browser onto their system – and thus infect the devices with malware. More than 100,000 computers are said to have been infected by malicious chrome extensions.

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Tor Browser 7.5.4

Posted on 2018-05-12 by guenni

The developers of the Tor Browser (or The Tor Network) released the update to version 7.5.4 on May 9, 2018. Here is an overview of what has changed.

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Patchday: Updates for Windows 7/8.1/Server May 2018

Posted on 2018-05-09 by guenni

[German]On May 8, 2018 Microsoft released several (security) updates (KB4103718, KB4103712) for Windows 7 SP1 and other updates (KB4103725, KB4103715) for Windows 8.1 and the corresponding server versions. Here is an overview of these updates.

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