[German]The developers of Thunderbird have released another update of the email client to version 115.7.0 on January 22, 2024. It is an update that is intended to fix some bugs and vulnerabilities.
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[German]On January 23, 2024, the Mozilla developers released the new Firefox 122 and the maintenance update of Firefox 115.7 ESR. Firefox 122 is a new development branch. Here is a brief overview of the updates in question, including the fixes and new features. Continue reading
[German]It's crazy or "what the fuck" (WTF) what printer manufacturer HP is sucking out of its fingers again. The company has attracted a lot of negative attention because it blocks third-party ink cartridges through firmware updates, even retrospectively. There have been judgments against HP that have awarded compensation to blocked users. Now the HP boss has come up with a new, adventurous justification for blocking third-party ink cartridges. This is the only way to protect buyers of HP devices from "viruses" that are "lurking around" in ink cartridges with third-party chips to infect the poor HP printers.
[German]Apple released the first update, iOS 17.3 for iPhones and iPadOS 17.3 for iPads, yesterday, January 22, 2024. In addition to a "Device Protection" function, it also fixes the first 0-day bug in the operating system. Here is a brief overview of this update.
[German]It looks like Microsoft's sales department has bagged its sheep (aka customers) clean. Everything is jumping on the Microsoft 365 subscription solution to get in on the action. And now they are being milked – despite the subscription, many components in Microsoft 365 are only available for an extra charge, as has now been discovered.
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[German]The logging of events by Windows leaves room for improvement. Companies do not have a sufficient overview of the activities on their workstations and servers with Microsoft's standard specifications. The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) have published a guide to configuring Windows logging that provides tips on how to improve logging in Windows.
Cannonical wants to extend the support period for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, which is expected in April 2024, to 12 years. The extended support period was announced by Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth in an interview with the YouTube channel Destination Linux in this video (from 8:46). Martin Brinkmann has published details on ghacks.net.
Microsoft has made new installation media for Windows 10, Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 available in its Visual Studio Subscriptions portal (formerly MSDN). The January 2024 Refresh ISO installation media was released on January 18, 2024, but was created on January 4, 2024, and will create a system with a patch level of January 9, 2024 for a new Windows installation.
[German]How do you know that Windows Defender and its configuration is correctly implemented and working? I just came across a demonstration and test page from Microsoft. Microsoft provides various files and information there to demonstrate, test and validate the Defender rules for ASR, PUA, SmartScreen etc.
[German]Small addendum to the December 2023 patchday, during which an information disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2023-35636) was also closed. It has now become known that even the acceptance of a calendar invitation by a user can reveal their password. While this vulnerability in Outlook has been patched, there are other methods to retrieve an NTLM hash, e.g. via a file manager. These vulnerabilities are not patched. Here is an overview of the issue.
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