[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.
[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.
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.
[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".
[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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[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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[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
[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
[German]Hyper-V is a virtualization product from Microsoft. The company now sees a "bright future" for Hyper-V on Windows Server, including on Windows Server 2025. At least that is the message that Jack Woolsey from Microsoft and his team announced at the beginning of March 2024. Microsoft is probably also responding to the upheavals that Broadcom has triggered at VMware, which have made many VMware customers think about switching.
[German]Ever since Broadcom terminated the contracts of its VMware partners, streamlined its product portfolio and switched everything to (very expensive) subscriptions in the VMware Cloud, there has been a great deal of uproar. Now some small and medium sized cloud service providers are hoping that they can continue to offer VMware virtualization to their customers via white label contracts from the VMware by Broadcom CSP program. Here's a quick look at what our colleagues at The Register have found out off the record. And I received an assessment from the "partners" that sheds some light on the matter.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
