[German]On July 9, 2024, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office – as well as for other products. The security updates eliminate 138 vulnerabilities (CVEs), including five critical vulnerabilities (two are already being exploited). Below is a compact overview of the updates that were released on Patchday. Continue reading
[German]After Microsoft's e-mail system (Exchange Online, Outlook.com) was compromised by Russian hackers from the state sponsored group Midnight Blizzard Hackers, Microsoft recently had to admit that e-mails to customers were also affected. In an attempt to inform customers, Microsoft made the next blunder. The notifications were sent to the "Global Administrators" of the tenants of the affected companies. Notifications were not retrieved or ended up in the spam folder, or were classified as SPAM because Microsoft made further cardinal errors.
[German]Another issue, which was brought to my attention by a reader. It's about Windows Server 2019, where there is a problem with the domain controller in the morning hours because the DNS service fails. This is not limited to one system, but occurs on several customer systems. I'm posting it on the blog to find out if there are any others affected.
[German]I'm posting some information here on the blog that I came across a few days ago. From mid-July 2024, older Outlook clients and web browsers will refuse to work with Microsoft email accounts. Users will then have to update their clients in order to continue sending and receiving emails.
[German]On July 1, 2024, the Teams 2.0 client was to be deployed across the board on Windows. Microsoft has stopped the automatic distribution because the automatic MS Teams 1.0 uninstallation leads to Outlook problems. And Microsoft has long had a bug in its iOS app for Teams that makes creating an out-of-office note a problem for users. The texts cannot be corrected via the app – it appears to be an array error. I'll summarize the two issues in a blog post.
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[German]The chatGPT provider OpenAI was the victim of a cyberattack in 2023, in which the attackers were able to access and read the internal chats between researchers and other employees of the company. However, the source code behind the OpenAI LLMs was not accessible. This was probably made public by a source who leaked the information to the New York Times.
[German]In the article Paessler switches PRTG license model to subscriptions üI had just reported on a change from their license model to subscriptions. The bottom line is that this will lead to massive price increases. But CheckMK has probably also massively increased its prices in 2024, as a reader told me a few days ago (he pointed this out here in a German comment).
[German]The trend towards subscription models instead of one-off payments when purchasing software does not stop at Paessler and its PRTG software. A blog reader recently informed me about this change to PRTG from Paessler. I'll post the information here in the blog – including the information that Paessler AG has a new investor.
[German]Swiss provider Proton, known for its encrypted mail service, announced and released its "Docs in Proton" service this week. Similar to Google Docs, users can open an online storage and edit documents in Docs.
[German]The hack of the remote maintenance provider TeamViewer seems to have gone more smoothly than feared. A state actor (APT29) did have access to the company's internal IT environment. However, neither the production environment with the sources and binaries of the remote maintenance software nor customer data appear to have been affected. This was announced by the provider in what is now the third status update.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
