[German]It was recently revealed that hackers from the state-run group Midnight Blizzard Hackers were able to penetrate Microsoft's email system and read messages from executives or security experts. The hackers had been in the system for months. Microsoft has now revealed how this hack came about. The short version: what is sold to third parties as "good security practice" was probably not applied by the company itself.
[German]On January 26, 2024, there was probably a major disruption in Microsoft Teams that led to disconnections or delayed delivery of messages. Microsoft has posted the relevant status information in the Admin Center under TM710344. The problem seems to have been resolved in the meantime.
[German]On January 26, 2024 Microsoft presented the successor to Windows Server 2022. This will be called Windows Server 2025 and a first preview with this name was published for testers at the same time. Development has already been underway for some time under the name Windows Server vNext. Keywords for innovations include hotpatching, Next Generation Active Directory, Hyper-V, AI and much more.
[German]Problem for users of an AVM FRITZ!Box family broadband routers who try to access the router's administration interface from the home network. However, when entering the URL fritz.box, users do not end up on the routers firmware FRITZ!Box login page, but are redirected to an external website. Two users have pointed out the problem to me, with one user suspecting a hack. The cause is a combination of two circumstances that provoke this behavior. Someone has registered a domain fritz.box and DNS servers from Google then resolve to this page. The remedy is to enter the IP address of the FRITZ!Box or to use a different DNS server. Continue reading
[German]Microsoft has released another security update for the Edge (Chromium) browser with version 121.0.2277.83 in the stable channel on January 25, 2024. It is a security update that is intended to close vulnerabilities, but also offers new functions as a new branch. Version 120.0.2210.160 was released in the Extended Stable Channel. Continue reading
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[German]Google Pixel smartphone users are complaining of issues after installing a Google Play Security Update (GPSU) for Android from January 2024. There are problems accessing files, which is apparently so serious that Google has suspended this Google Play Security Update.
[German]After Microsoft, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has also fallen victim to the Russian hacker group Midnight Blizzard. This is according to a notification from the company to the US SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (SEC). As with Microsoft, the attackers probably had access to the company's email system (Microsoft 365). The attackers were then able to look around this system at HPE for months.
[German]Microsoft has acknowledged a problem with Windows 10 22H2 that has been dormant in the systems for several days. The installed update KB5032278, which was rolled out at the end of November 2023, causes the error code 0x80073cf2 to be triggered when the sysprep command is used. A solution will be rolled out at a later date.
[German]Ad-hoc I don't know whether this is good news or bad news. According to recent reports, the EU Commission will not classify Microsoft's search engine Bing and the Edge browser as products or services subject to the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA). There are formal reasons for this: the market significance of the two Microsoft products and services mentioned is simply too low to fall under this classification.
[German]Google has released updates to the Google Chrome browser in the Stable Channel for Mac, Linux and Windows on January 23, 2024. There were also updates for the Extended Stable Channel. The Chrome browser Android app has also been updated. The updates contain security fixes, some of which are already being exploited. Here is an overview of these updates. Google is also planning to add AI functions to the Chrome browser in the future. Continue reading
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