[German]The developers of Thunderbird have released another update of the email client to version 115.6.0 on December 19, 2023. It is an update that is intended to fix some bugs and vulnerabilities. Thanks to the readers for their comments. Continue reading
[German]On December 19, 2023, the Mozilla developers released the Firefox update Firefox 121.0. It is a new development branch that also contains security fixes. Continue reading
[German]For many months, Windows 11 users have been complaining about the behavior of Windows Explorer. Back in September 2023, I described the effect of Explorer spontaneously coming to the foreground and grabbing the focus while working. Now it looks like Microsoft has finally fixed this annoying bug in Windows 11 with an update.
[German]The Swedish EasyPark (or the EasyPark Group) has confirmed, that they was the victim of a cyber attack on December 10, 2023. Nice, EasyPark play its down and wrote, "there was a breach of non-sensitive customer data". "Thankfully", only data such as email address, telephone number, address or parts of card details were stolen. What could have happened if "non-sensitive data" had been stolen. Here is an overview of the facts.
[German]Users of Windows 11 22H2-23H2 who have installed the cumulative security update KB5033375 from December 2023 may run into problems with Wi-Fi access. There are now reports that WPA2 Enterprise Wireless is broken due to the update. Universities are now warning against installing the update and recommending that affected users uninstall it. Microsoft has not yet announced anything about this problem. Thanks to the blog reader for pointing this out.
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[German]A small addendum from last week: Microsoft has published a support article and a Printer Metadata Troubleshooter Tool under KB5034510, which is intended to help resolve a problem that occurred at the end of November 2023. At that time, incorrect metadata caused the HP Smart app for HP printers to be installed under Windows and the printer entries to be changed to HP devices.
[German]The list of discontinued Windows features that will be removed at some point is getting longer and longer. After Cortana and the WebDAV client were already declared as deprecated in November 2023, Microsoft also declared the speech recognition introduced in Windows Vista as "deprecated" at the beginning of December 2023. And now the legacy console mode under Windows has also been deprecated and will no longer be installed in future versions of Windows.
[German]Microsoft recently pointed out that the Microsoft Teams client is subject to the Modern Lifecycle Policy. This requires that users always use the latest version of the client application. This is usually ensured by automatic updates. After the end of March 2024, Microsoft will stop supporting the infrastructure of legacy services for chat messaging.
[German]Warning to customers of the telephone system provider 3CX who have integrated an SQL database into the software for CRM purposes. The manufacturer recommends temporarily deactivating this SQL database integration. Although there are no details of what is wrong, the provider issued in a security warning which SQL databases and software versions are affected and how the SQL connection can be deactivated in the Management Console.
Microsoft has released an update of the Edge (Chromium) browser in the stable channel to 120.0.2210.77 on December 14, 2023. Thanks to the reader for pointing this out. The release notes simply state "Fixed various bugs and performance issues." It also states that the vulnerability CVE-2023-36878 has been closed. I do not know whether the bugs reported in the comments of this German article have been fixed.
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