US Congress bans the use of Microsoft AI solution Copilot

Posted on 2024-03-31 by guenni

Stop - Pixabay[German]Microsoft is sticking to its plans to roll out Copilot to users in all kinds of products, from Windows to Office. However, the US House of Representatives has issued a strict ban on the use of Microsoft Copilot by its employees. This is the next blow to Microsoft's AI solution, while a ban on the use of the free version of ChatGPT by employees was already enacted in June 2023. Only the paid version was permitted within certain limits. The background to this is that Microsoft's Copilot is considered a security risk because there is a danger that data from the House of Representatives will be passed on to cloud services not approved by the House of Representatives.

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Outlook 365: The broken profile experience …

Posted on 2024-03-31 by guenni

[German]Small blog post about Microsoft 365/Outlook, and a problem that the program suddenly wants to repair a profile. It seems to happen more frequently, as I have learned. And in some cases, the repair then fails due to insufficient free memory on the system disk where Outlook 365 is installed. Brave new software world.

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Linux: Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma; compromise of SSH servers

Posted on 2024-03-30 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]As of Friday, March 29, 2024, Red Hat has published a warning. The latest versions of the "xz" tools and libraries contain malicious code, a backdoor, which is apparently intended to allow unauthorized access. Affected by the backdoor (vulnerability CVE-2024-3094) are versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 of the libraries. Affects various Linux users and also affects Open SSH.

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Microsoft Edge Bug CVE-2024-21388 allowed to install arbitrary extensions

Posted on 2024-03-30 by guenni

Edge[German]A now-patched vulnerability in the Microsoft Edge web browser could have been abused to install arbitrary extensions on users' systems and carry out malicious actions. This was revealed by a security researcher to The Hacker News.

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Microsoft .NET 7 will no longer be supported on May 14, 2024

Posted on 2024-03-29 by guenni

Brief information for people who use Microsoft .NET 7. This runtime environment will cease to be supported on May 14, 2024 and will no longer receive security updates.

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

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Microsoft 365/Exchange Online enforces suddenly MFA via Microsoft Authenticator app

Posted on 2024-03-28 by guenni

[German]A quick question for the administrators responsible for Exchange Online and Microsoft 365 applications. I've just received an email from Alex saying that their users have had massive problems with Exchange Online "since today" because the Microsoft 365 applications suddenly require multifactor authentication via the Microsoft Authenticator app on a smartphone. It's ringing in the back of my mind "there was something".

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Apple users target of "MFA bombing" attacks (2024)

Posted on 2024-03-28 by guenni

[German]Users of Apple devices (iPhone, Apple Watch, Macs) are probably being targeted by a wave of attacks known as "MFA bombing". The aim of the attackers is to take over the victims' Apple accounts through a wave of password reset requests. Careless users and a flaw in Apple's password reset mechanism are said to be facilitating this.

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Google Chrome 123.0.6312.86/.87

Posted on 2024-03-27 by guenni

Chrome[German]Google has released an update of the Google Chrome browser (branch 123) in the stable channel on March 26, 2024, which closes seven vulnerabilities (some of them critical). The Extended Stable Channel and the app for Android have also received an update. Here is an overview of these updates.
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Windows 11 23H2/22H2: Preview Update KB5035942 (March 26, 2024)

Posted on 2024-03-27 by guenni

Windows[German]Microsoft has released the optional cumulative (preview) update KB5035942 for Windows 11 version 22H2 and 23H2 on March 26, 2024. The preview update brings a number of fixes for these Windows 11 versions. It is the long-awaited so-called Moments 5 update. An update with minor changes to Windows 11. Continue reading →

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Windows 10 22H2 Preview Update KB5035941 (March 26, 2024)

Posted on 2024-03-27 by guenni

Windows[German]Microsoft has released an optional cumulative (preview) update KB5035941 for Windows 10 22H2 on March 26, 2024 (D-Week). This is intended to fix numerous bugs in Windows 10 22H2 and brings minor improvements (widget on lock screen, Spotlight desktop backgrounds). Below is an overview of these updates for Windows 10. Continue reading →

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