New Outlook app: "Monitoring and surveillance tool for targeted advertising"

Posted on 2024-01-18 by guenni

[German]The new Microsoft Outlook app is a data protection disaster and a GDPR no-go. Following the revelation that the app transfers access data for accounts and content to Microsoft's cloud, mail vendor Proton took a closer look at the app. The app is a tracker, and an absolute no-go, as the app transfers usage data to over 700 advertising partners. The new Outlook is a kind of a "monitoring and data collection tool for targeted advertising".

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Adobe Acrobat (Reader) DC 2023.008.20470

Posted on 2024-01-18 by guenni

Adobe has released an optional update for Adobe Acrobat (Reader) DC to version 2023.008.20470 on January 16, 2024. It is a planned update for macOS and Windows, which is intended to fix various bugs. According to the release notes, it is a hotfix patch for Acrobat and Acrobat Reader that fixes some important bugs. (via)

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Google Chrome 120.0.6099.224/225/234 closes critical vulnerabilities

Posted on 2024-01-17 by guenni

Chrome[German]Google has released updates to the Google Chrome browser in the stable channel for Mac, Linux and Windows on January 16, 2023. This affects both the standard and the extended stable channel The Android app of the Chrome browser has also been updated. The updates contain security fixes, some of which are already being exploited. Here is an overview of these updates.

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Broadcom ends perpetual licenses for VMware products – End of the free ESXi server?

Posted on 2024-01-17 by guenni

Stop - Pixabay[German]That was it for VMware products that were available via purchase of perpetual licenses. As of January 15, 2024, Broadcom has announced that a whole range of VMware products will no longer be available for purchase with perpetual licenses. I already mentioned a few days ago that resellers will no longer be able to sell such licenses or products and will only be allowed to process a residual order backlog. This is probably also the end of the free ESXi server.

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NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway vulnerabilities CVE-2023-6548 and CVE-2023-6549

Posted on 2024-01-16 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Administrators of a Citrix NetScaler ADC or a Citrix NetScaler Gateway should take action. Manufacturer Citrix has published a security advisory regarding the two vulnerabilities CVE-2023-6548 and CVE-2023-6549 in the above-mentioned products on January 16, 2024. One vulnerability allows DDoS attacks, while the second vulnerability allows authenticated (low privileged) remote code execution on the management interface.

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

[Sponsored Post]In the rapidly evolving IT world, choosing the right remote desktop software is critical for organizations that value security, ease of use and reliability. One provider of secure remote access that has been on the market since 2001 is ISL Online, which presents some considerations for choosing such software below. More ...

Copilot Pro: Microsoft's subscription model for its products

Posted on 2024-01-16 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has introduced an extension to its LLM solution Copilot. Microsoft Copilot Pro is a subscription-based approach to rolling out LLM models to both home and business users, from small businesses to large enterprises, and earning money from these solutions. With the subscription solution, users should be able to access GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo even in times of high load, while users without a subscription will be served with GPT 3.5.

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Microsoft says, Teams 2.0 migration is to slow; 2/3 still on old client

Posted on 2024-01-16 by guenni

Teams[German]The migration of Microsoft Teams client users to the new version 2.0 is proceeding very slowly. Although this new client has already been available for several months and Teams 2.0 will soon be mandatory, around 2/3 of Teams users have so far refused to migrate. Microsoft is calling on companies to force the switch to the new Teams 2.0 client.

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Microsoft's PowerShell script against installation error 0x80070643 for KB5034441 (Jan. 2024)

Posted on 2024-01-15 by guenni

Windows[German]The security update rolled out on January 9, 2024 via automatic update (e.g. KB5034441) against a BitLocker Security Feature Bypass vulnerability CVE-2024-20666 in the WinRE partition fails on many systems with the installation error 0x80070643. Somehow this is a disaster with an announcement – and many users are not able to fix this installation error. Last week, Microsoft published PowerShell scripts that are supposed to fix the cause of the installation error 0x800706431. I have summarized some information about this in an addendum.

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Authy authentication app for the desktop end of support in August 2024

Posted on 2024-01-14 by guenni

If you plan to use the Authy authentication application and would like to use it for two-factor authentication (2FA) for desktop systems, you should reconsider. The developer Twilio has announced that Authy authentication for the desktop will be discontinued in … Continue reading →

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Bitdefender finds vulnerabilities in Bosch BCC100 thermostats

Posted on 2024-01-14 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Security provider Bitdefender has informed me that security researchers in its labs have found vulnerabilities in Bosch BCC100 thermostats. Hackers can use these vulnerabilities to take control of such smart thermostats and gain access to smart home networks. The experts at Bitdefender Labs have described a specific possible attack on smart thermostats from the manufacturer Bosch in a study.

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