Category Archives: Software

Firefox 79.0.0 and 78.1.0 esr released

Posted on 2020-07-29 by guenni

[German]Mozilla's developers have released the version 79.0. of the Firefox browser (as well as the 78.1.0 esr) on 29 July 2020. These are maintenance updates that fix both vulnerabilities and bugs.

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Chrome 84.0.4147.105 released

Posted on 2020-07-28 by guenni

[German]Google's developers have released Chrome Browser version 84.0.4147.105 as of July 27, 2020. This version closes vulnerabilities in the desktop and Android versions of Google Browser.

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Microsoft Security Advisories and other Patches (July 2020)

Posted on 2020-07-27 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has published some security advisories about vulnerabilities and released further updates around 14 July 2020. I would like to add this information to the blog post.

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Sharepoint RCE vulnerability CVE-2020-1147 – Details now public, patch immediately

Posted on 2020-07-25 by guenni

[German]A brief note for administrators in enterprises, who are responsible for Sharepoint installations. The details regarding an RCE vulnerability have now become public. It is important to patch the affected installations quickly.

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MSIX-Toolkit for Windows 10 2004 SDK released

Posted on 2020-07-23 by guenni

Microsoft developers have just updated the MSIX Toolkit to make it compatible with the Windows 10 2004 SDK. The 32- (x86) and 64-bit versions (x64) have been split into separate downloads.

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

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Thunderbird 78.0.1 released

Posted on 2020-07-22 by guenni

[German]The developers of the e-mail client Thunderbird released version 78.0.11 on July 22, 2020. This is a maintenance update for the 78 main version of the e-mail client, which corrects some bugs.

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Chrome 84 & Sophos Authentication for Thin Clients (SATC)

Posted on 2020-07-17 by guenni

[German]A brief note for administrators who use Sophos Authentication for Thin Clients (SATC) in conjunction with a Chromium 84 browser There will be problems with authentication using SATC and the XG firewall. The recommendation is to prevent updating the Chromium … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Edge 84.0.522.40 released

Posted on 2020-07-17 by guenni

[German]Microsoft issued a security advisory on July 16, 2020, which indicates the new security update for the Chromium Edge Browser to version 84.0.522.40.

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Thunderbird 78.0 released

Posted on 2020-07-17 by guenni

[German]The developers of the e-mail client Thunderbird released version 78.0.0 on July 15, 2020. It is a new main version of the e-mail client, which also corrects some errors.

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Outlook connection issues with Exchange Online (07/15/2020)

Posted on 2020-07-16 by guenni

[German]As of July 15, 2020, Outlook users did not only have the problem that the application crashes due to an update. Some users were also no longer able to log on to Exchange Online with Outlook.

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