Warning: MPIP / AIP Client for Microsoft Azure destroys files

Posted on 2024-09-03 by guenni

[German]A German blog reader has just pointed out a bug in the Microsoft MPIP-AIP client for Purview Information Protection that can cause files on the OneDrive online storage to become corrupted. If you don't have a backup, these files are then lost (safe for eternity, so to speak). Microsoft has confirmed the bug, two "clients or services" work independently of each other. Let me summarize the relevant information for the reader.

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Scam-Warning: Fake Trojan alert (here shown via Facebook ads)

Posted on 2024-09-02 by guenni

[German]Brief information for Facebook users. There are indications that a campaign is running via ads on Facebook, which pretends to be a fake Trojan in the browser and asks the user to call a "Microsoft support page". This is of course also fake and amounts to fraud. I came across such an ad the other day, and I'll post it briefly on the blog.

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Windows: Side-Loading DLL attacks via licensingdiag.exe

Posted on 2024-09-01 by guenni

Windows[German]I'm once again posting information here in the blog that I stumbled across recently. Anyone who is concerned about Windows security should keep an eye on the command line tool licensingdiag.exe. It is another "living of the land" tool that can be used for side-loading DLL attacks. This is because there is an entry in the registry that specifies which DLL is to be loaded from which path.

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Office 365 Version 2408: Issues with Access when accessing a SQL database

Posted on 2024-08-31 by guenni

[German]A blog reader has just contacted me because he has run into significant problems with Microsoft Access with Microsoft Office 365 version 2408 (Build 17928.20114). He often gets error 3048 from the Access frontend when trying to access it. The question is whether other users are also experiencing this.

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Windows 10 22H2 Preview Update KB5041582 (August 29, 2024)

Posted on 2024-08-30 by guenni

Windows[German]Microsoft has released an optional, cumulative (preview) update KB5041582 for Windows 10 22H2 on August 29, 2024 (D-Week). This is intended to fix numerous bugs (including the WDAC problems or problems with printer redirects) in Windows 10 22H2. Below is an overview of these updates for Windows 10.

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

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Patch your Progress Kemp LoadMaster (Load-Balancer)

Posted on 2024-08-30 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Quick note for administrators who use the load balancer LoadMaster from Progress Kemp. The provider has released the next patch for August 2024. The new vulnerability CVE-2024-6658 is to be closed. There are currently no details for the public.

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Microsoft Authenticator required although MFA already set up?

Posted on 2024-08-29 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has started to implement multifactor authentication for its cloud offerings. Among other things, the Microsoft Authenticator app is used as a second factor for authentication. A blog reader got in touch because he ran into a problem with a customer. The use of the Microsoft Authenticator app is to be enforced there. But the Microsoft Authenticator app has long been in use there.

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Grzegorz Tworek has published his Offline SAM Editor

Posted on 2024-08-28 by guenni

Windows[German]Brief information that may be of interest to administrators. Developer Grzegorz Tworek has now released his Offline SAM Editor, which was announced some time ago. The Offline SAM Editor is intended for IT professionals, researchers and security enthusiasts who want to access and edit SAM databases of offline operating systems. However, the package is subject to a charge (available for 39 euros) and the developer provides the source code.

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Netherlands: Data center failure "grounds" Eindhoven Airport and other authorities

Posted on 2024-08-28 by guenni

Stop - Pixabay[German]In the Netherlands, a network malfunction in the data center of the Dutch Ministry of Defense have had drastical results. As a result, several Dutch authorities wasn't able to use their IT systems anymore. And even more serious: Eindhoven Airport was down for several hours on August 28, 2024. I immediately thought "was that a cyberattack" – but from what I know, this has been denied. Now the malfunction is fixed and everything is back in operation.

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Windows 11 23H2/22H2: Preview Update KB5041587 (August 27, 2024)

Posted on 2024-08-28 by guenni

Windows[German]Microsoft has released the optional cumulative (preview) update KB5041587 for Windows 11 version 22H2 and 23H2 on August 27, 2024. This is an optional update whose fixes will be generally rolled out in the following month. For Windows 11 22H2, only the Education and Enterprise versions will receive the update. A new feature is a share function with Android, which will be rolled out in stages. Continue reading →

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