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Category Archives: Software
Piriform CCleaner victim of MOVEit transfer vulnerability
[German]The vulnerability in Progress Software's Managed File Transfer (MFT) solution MOVEit, which was disclosed in May 2023, has also affected CCleaner customers of the vendor Priform (bought by AVAST and owned by Gen Digital). Piriform has just admitted to a … Continue reading
Thunderbird 115.4/115.4.1
[German]The developers of Thunderbird have released another update of the email client to version 115.4 on October 24, 2023 (thanks to reader for the tip). It is an update, which is supposed to fix some bugs, as well as contains … Continue reading
Cisco: New 0-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-20273) in IOS XE; already being exploited
[German]US vendor Cisco has publicly disclosed another 0-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-20273) in IOS XE as of October 20, 2023. This vulnerability is already being exploited in the wild to compromise systems. The vendor plans to provide fixes for the CVE-2023-20198 and … Continue reading
Microsoft Exchange Server October 2023 Patchday issues
[German]As of October 10, 2023, Microsoft has indeed released security updates (SU) for on-premises Exchange Server 2016 / 2019. These pick up the August 2023 patches, but may cause problems with Exchange installations. For example, there may be installation error … Continue reading
Updates: VMware Player / Workstation 17.5; Fusion 13.5
VMware has released an update for its virtualization solutions VMware Player and Workstation to version 17.5 this week. neowin.net describes here some improvements and fixes of the new version. VMware has released the security advisory MSA-2023-0021 (Aria, CVE-2023-34051, CVE-2023-34052, CVSSv3 index … Continue reading
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 ...
VMMap v3.4 released
As of October 17, 2023 VMMap v3.4 has been released in Sysinternals Tools. VMMap is a utility for analyzing virtual and physical process memory on Windows.
Over 32,000 Cisco components compromised via CVE-2023-20198 vulnerability
[German]Short note for users who have Cisco components with IOS XE in use and these components are accessible via the Internet. As of October 16, 2023, Cisco issued a security warning about the 0-day vulnerability CVE-2023-20198, which is unpatched so … Continue reading
Microsoft fixes slow Outlook start and freeze bug; fix will be shipped in November 2023
[German]Microsoft has addressed the problem that Outlook from Microsoft 365 takes a very long time to start and then sometimes hangs completely (freeze bug). If the application is closed and restarted, Outlook is opened directly. According to an announcement, the … Continue reading
Warning: WinRAR vulnerability CVE-2023-38831 is exploited by Chinese and Russian hackers
[German]Warning to users of the WinRAR archive program. Various state threat actors from Russia and China are trying to exploit a vulnerability in the WinRAR archiving tool for Windows. Attackers can execute arbitrary code when unpacking archives via the CVE-2023-38831 … Continue reading
New Outlook: Microsoft will definitely not support COM add-ins
[German]Hope dies last, but now it's finally dead. Microsoft has just clarified in a blog post that the new Outlook app, which will eventually replace the classic Outlook, will not support COM. I touched on this topic here on the … Continue reading