Microsoft: News from the Midnight Blizzard hack – customers may also be affected

Posted on 2024-06-29 by guenni

[German]Microsoft's e-mail system (Exchange Online, Outlook.com) was compromised by hackers from the state group Midnight Blizzard Hackers. The hackers were able to read emails and also steal source code. Microsoft has now informed various customers that their e-mails could also be read if the customers corresponded with certain Microsoft accounts. Here is the continuation of the never-ending story about Microsoft, its cloud and security.

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Windows 11 23H2/22H2: Distribution of preview update KB5039302 suspended due to restart bug

Posted on 2024-06-28 by guenni

Windows[German]Microsoft has suspended the distribution of the optional cumulative (preview) update 5039302 for Windows 11 version 22H2 and 23H2 released on June 25, 2024. The update leads to a boot loop on machines, as readers noted shortly after publication.

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TeamViewer hacked (June 2024)

Posted on 2024-06-28 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]The remote software vendor TeamViewer has fallen victim to a successful cyber attack. Unknown perpetrators (some says APT29) were able to infiltrate the internal IT environment and gain access to the network. However, the provider states that its product environment was not affected. There are also no signs that customer data has been compromised, TeamViewer writes.

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New Teams client: Bug prevents creating new teams

Posted on 2024-06-28 by guenni

Teams[German]An administrator contacted me because he ran into a serious issue in the new Teams 2.0 client. It is simply no longer possible to create new teams. The error message is not very informative, and individual forum entries are not very helpful (apart from the confirmation that the error also occurs there). The question is whether more administrators from the blog readership are affected, whether there is information on the cause and whether a solution is possibly known.

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Bug in NetScaler 14.1 21.57 and 14.1 25.53 prevents PFX import

Posted on 2024-06-27 by guenni

Stop - Pixabay[German]Small note for administrators of a NetScaler ADC. There is a bug in various NetScaler firmware versions that prevents a PFX certificate from being imported and installed. The bug has now been confirmed – anyone who runs into this problem must use a workaround and split the certificate. Here is some information on the issue that I have come across in the last few days.

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

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Windows 11 23H2/22H2: Preview Update KB5039302 (June 25, 2024)

Posted on 2024-06-26 by guenni

Windows[German]Microsoft has released the optional, cumulative (preview) update 5039302 for Windows 11 version 22H2 and 23H2 on June 25, 2024. This is an optional update whose fixes will be generally rolled out in the following month. Continue reading →

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Windows 10 22H2 Preview Update KB5039299 (June 25, 2024)

Posted on 2024-06-26 by guenni

Windows[German]Microsoft has released an optional cumulative (preview) update KB5039299 for Windows 10 22H2 on June 25, 2024 (D-Week). This is intended to fix numerous bugs in Windows 10 22H2. Below is an overview of these updates for Windows 10.
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Progress MOVEit Transfer: Attacks on vulnerability CVE-2024-5806

Posted on 2024-06-26 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]The vulnerability CVE-2024-5806 was recently discovered in the Progress MOVEit Transfer software. Attacks on the CVE-2024-5806 vulnerability were observed shortly after this information was published. This brings back bad memories of a MOVEit Transfer vulnerability through which hundreds of companies were hacked by a gang of cyber criminals.

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Microsoft employee accidentally publishes PlayReady code

Posted on 2024-06-26 by guenni

Stop - Pixabay[German]A Microsoft software developer has accidentally shared internal PlayReady source code with the public (a developer forum). The data leak of 4 GByte is sufficient to compile the required DLL from the source code. This could be a real boon for people who want to reverse engineering or crack PlayReady.

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Changes to free Internxt storage plan

Posted on 2024-06-26 by guenni

[German]No idea how many users the E2E-encrypted and, according to its own information, GDPR-compliant storage service Imternxt has, and how many blog readers are affected. Blog reader Lars Hendrik had received 2 GB of free online storage there. There were even various promotions to get up to 10 GB of online storage. This is now all being downgraded to 1 GB.

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