[German]Electronic locks from Saflock are used in many hotels and even in apartments. The doors secured in this way can be unlocked using RFID cards. Great thing? Unfortunately, security vulnerabilities mean that these electronic RFID locks can be picked using simple means. Millions of locks used in 13,000 hotels and apartments worldwide are affected.
[German]Google has released an update to the Google Chrome browser (branch 1232) in the Stable Channel on March 19, 2024. The Extended Stable Channel and the app for Android have also received an update. The updates fix bugs and close vulnerabilities. Here is an overview of these updates.
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[German]I'm pulling it out separately in a blog post after several blog readers pointed it out to me. The March 2024 security update from March 12, 2024 for Windows Server causes a memory leak in LSASS (for all Windows Server variants), which then leads to performance problems on domain controllers (DC) after some time and may send them to digital nirvana. Here is some information on this issue. Addendum: The issue has been confirmed.
A little info that recently came to my attention. Microsoft seems to have informed some people that they have found a configuration problem in the Microsoft Cloud Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). This would affect the configuration in the organization of the recipient in question. The "problem in the recipient's Microsoft environment requires a response".
[German]On March 19, 2024, the Mozilla developers released the new Firefox 124 and the maintenance update of Firefox 115.9 ESR. Firefox 124 is a new development branch. Here is a brief overview of the updates in question, including the fixes and new features
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[German]The developers of Thunderbird have released another update of the email client to version 115.9.0 on March 19, 2024. It is an update that is intended to fix some bugs and vulnerabilities. Continue reading
[German]My understanding was that Microsoft wanted to integrate the Adobe Acrobat PDF engine into the Edge browser instead of its own renderer. I had even assumed that this was already the case. Now a reader informed me at the beginning of March 2024 that this integration had been postponed until summer 2024. After publishing this within my German blog, I also cover it here for my English language readers.
[German]I got a report that Securepoint Antivirus crashed Windows terminal server systems. A german blog reader has two virtual machines affected. Later other German administrators confirmed issues with Securepoint Antivirus, and the vendor has withdrawn the latest "update" of his security software.
[German]Broadcom President and CEO Hock Tan was still boasting to investors that the license conversion strategy at VMware would see new sales increases every quarter by the end of the year. Now it looks as if it is slowly dawning on those responsible at Broadcom that they have caused massive annoyance among VMware customers with their "crowbar policy" and that the "cash register ringing" by switching licensing to cloud and subscription solutions may not work out quite as well as the business leaders had planned. And a reader has pointed out licensing oddities at VMware to me.
[German]Blog reader Steffen has contacted me by email because he is seeing issues and problem reports from users of Microsoft Outlook in connection with the scheduling wizard. It affects different versions of Outlook and he is wondering whether other readers can observe and confirm this. I'm wondering if it could be related to the updates for Office around March 12, 2024. Here is an overview of the problem.
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