[German]A short piece of information for readers who use the ZScaler client connector in their environment. Three vulnerabilities CVE-2023-41972, CVE-2023-41973, CVE-2023-41969 have been disclosed by a security researcher. Combined correctly, these can be misused to launch an interactionless local privilege escalation attack on the connection in question.
[German]In mid-May 2024, Microsoft released the out-of-band update KB5039705 for Windows Server 2019, which is intended to correct the installation error 0x800f0982 of the security update KB5037765 from May 2024 on systems with a non-English language pack. However, administrators in a Citrix environment run into the problem that update KB5039705 fails with installation error 0x8007371b. However, there is a solution that can be used to try and resolve the problem.
[German]It's time again for a little round-up article with some news from the world of Broadcom and VMware. VMware seems to be losing customers on a massive scale. I have received information that major customer Compushare is rehearsing the exit with 24,000 VMs from VMware to Nutanix. And then there is the CIO of Boyd Gaming, who is happy to have switched from VMware to Nutanix 18 months ago. The switch of the user portal from VMware to Broadcom was also turbulent for customers and caused problems with missing licenses.
[German]Weeks ago, there were serious cyberattacks on Change Healthcare, a payment service provider of the UnitedHealth Group, which paralyzed the supply of medicines in the USA due to payments no longer being made. In this context, I received a document with NCA insigts a few weeks ago, which raised the question of what lessons can be learned from the hacks in the healthcare sector. In my opinion, this also applies to IT in the German healthcare sector.
[German]Microsoft has begun to remove discontinued functions in Windows 11 24H2, which is expected in fall 2024. This operating system version will now definitely come without the WordPad program. The Cortana voice assistant will also be removed for good in this version of Windows 11.
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[German]Oracle's fiscal year ends on May 31, and many a salesperson is trying to make a few more euros. So if there are more frequent calls from Oracle sales people, customers could use the sales pressure in license negotiations to their advantage and possibly get discounts.
[German]I'm posting a warning here in the blog that I received from a reader. It concerns at least the Lenovo L15 Gen1 (AMD) systems. The manufacturer seems to be delivering a faulty BIOS version 1.33, which is causing trouble. The notebooks end up with a black screen and can only be reactivated with tricks.
[German]A short follow-up to the May 2024 security update for Windows Server 2019. The cumulative update KB5037765 from May 14, 2024 was withdrawn due to installation errors with a missing en-us language pack. Microsoft has since released the out-of-band update KB5039705 with corrections on May 23, 2024. However, I have received user reports that this update runs on errors if the cumulative update KB5037765 from May 14, 2024 is installed. Here is some information on what to do if you are affected.
[German]Microsoft has released the out-of-band update KB5039705 for Windows Server 2019 on May 23, 2024 (i.e. late yesterday evening in Europe). This special update was necessary because the cumulative update KB5037765 released on May 14, 2024 had to be withdrawn. The update triggered the installation error 0x800f0982 when installed on non-English speaking Windows Server 2019 instances. Here is some information about this problem and the special update KB5039705.
[German]Microsoft has long intended to end support for the script language VBScript in Windows. VBScript has now been declared as deprecated and Microsoft has presented also a timetable for when support will be completely removed from Windows. Now we see an end of VBScript security issues.
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