Category Archives: Software

Microsoft Message Analyzer will be discontinued

[German]A brief message for people who may use the Microsoft Message Analyzer to analyze network data. The product will be discontinued soon and the download will be removed from the Microsoft pages. There is probably no replacement for the free … Continue reading

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Trend Micro WFBS 10.0 SP1: Patch Build 2178 released

[German]Trend Micro has released a patch with build 2178 for its Worry Free Business Security version 10.0 Service Pack 1 on October 26, 2019. This patch is supposed to close a 0-day vulnerability in the web console.

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Hydration Kit for ConfigMgr, WS2019 and SQL2017

[German]Just a brief information for administrators in corporate environments. The Hydration Kit for ConfigMgr, Windows Server 2019 and SQL Server 2017 is available.

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Microsoft Office 365 service disruption (Oct. 18/19 2019)

Since October 18, 2019, multifactor authentication for Azure and Office 365 appears to be disrupted. At least customers in North America are affected.

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Microsoft open sources SandDance

SandDance is a visual data exploration tool, developed from Microsoft Research. Now Microsoft has open sourced this tool.

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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 ...


Security update for Visual Studio Code (CVE-2019-1414)

On October 17, 2019, Microsoft issued a security advisory regarding Visual Studio Code. An update is available for Visual Studio to close a security vulnerability CVE-2019-1414.

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Adobe Acrobat (Reader) 2019.021.20048 released

[German]On October 17, 2019, Adobe released an out of cycle stability update to version 2019.021.20048 for Acrobat Reader and Acrobat DC for Windows and macOS.

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Microsoft Desktop Analytics for SCCM available

[German]A brief message for administrators: Microsoft has released its 'Desktop Analytics' product, which can be used to check the compatibility of Windows endpoints, as generally available for SCCM.

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WordPress 5.2.4 released

On October 14, 2019 WordPress 5.2.4 has been released. It is a maintenance update that is intended to fix six security issues. Some information can be found in the Release Notes. In my blogs updating worked manually and automatically without … Continue reading

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HP Touchpoint Analytics vulnerability put PCs at risk

[German]HP Touchpoint Analytics software is pre-installed on most HP computers. A vulnerability allows attackers to gain administrator privileges. Here's what you need to know about that incident.

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