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Can antivirus software protect Windows 11 from ransomware? (Jan. 2023)
[German]This is an exciting question that many users are certainly asking themselves: Can current antivirus software actually protect Windows 11 against current ransomware? AV-TEST GmbH wanted to find out and unleashed a series of known ransomware samples on Windows 11 … Continue reading
New Jabra headset issues (e.g. Engage 75) with MS Teams (Jan./Feb. 2023).
[German]Another note for administrators and users of Jabra headsets (e.g. Jabra Engage 75) who use them in a corporate environment with Microsoft Teams. After there were already problems in connection with Microsoft Teams in December 2022, which were fixed via … Continue reading
Thunderbird 102.7.1
[German]The developers of Thunderbird have released another update of the email client to version 102.7.1 on February 1, 2023. It is a bug-fix update, which is supposed to fix some problems. In addition, a vulnerability that was rated as high … Continue reading
Firefox 109.0.1 released
[German]Mozilla developers have released versions 109.0 .1 of the Firefox browser on January 31, 2023. It is a bugfix update that is supposed to fix some minor issues.
.NET out-of-band update fixes XPS rendering issue in documents (Jan. 31, 2023)
[German]Microsoft has surprisingly released an unscheduled out-of-band update for .NET Framework on January 31, 2023. This should fix problems with XPS documents, which were caused by security updates from December 2022 in .NET Framework – I had reported in the … 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 ...
QNAP warns about vulnerability CVE-2022-27596 in QTS 5.0.1 and QuTS hero h5.0.1
[German]NAS manufacturer QNAP has issued a security warning for its QNAP products. There is a critical vulnerability CVE-2022-27596 in the QTS 5.0.1 and QuTS hero h5.0.1 software that allows malicious code injection into the firmware. The critical vulnerability has been … Continue reading
Windows 11 22H1: RDP issues fixed by preview update
[German]Users have been complaining about problems with remote desktop connections (RDP) under Windows 11 22H2 for months. In deed, first reports about that issue has been public sice December 2021. Last week, Microsoft released a preview update for Windows 11 … Continue reading
Sysinternals RDCMan, Sysmon and ZoomIt updated
[German]The Sysinternals team updated the RDCMan (remote desktop session management), Sysmon (host monitoring tool) and ZoomIt (allows screen magnification and annotations) tools for Windows at the end of January 2023. These are bug fixes in the tools mentioned here.
Do we need RDS licenses for Citrix Virtual App/Desktop environments?
Do we actually need Microsoft RDS licenses if we run an environment with Citrix Virtual App/Desktop? Citrix has discussed this in the article Do We Need RDS Licenses For Citrix Virtual App/Desktop Environment. Short answer: yes, you need both Citrix … Continue reading
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Microsoft Teams: Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability
A little note about security on Microsoft Teams. Two security researchers @adm1nkyj1 and @jinmo123 participated in pwn2own 2022 in Vancouver. There they tried to hack Microsoft Teams, but failed due to time allocation. Both discovered a bug that allowed an … Continue reading