[German]A German blog reader contacted me a few hours ago because he noticed an extreme amount of spam from certain Microsoft outlook.com email accounts to his Microsoft Office office.com email account. After publishing the German edition of this blog post, other German readers confirmed this observation.
[German]The developers of Thunderbird have released another update of the email client to version 115.5.2 on December 11, 2023. It is an update that is intended to fix some bugs.
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Apple has released an (emergency) update to iOS/iPadOS 17.2 on December 11, 2023. According to Apple's security notes, a number of vulnerabilities, including the Bluetooth vulnerability, have been fixed. Engadget reports on this here. There are also improvements to Siri, the Journal app, video capture on the iPhone 15 Pro and the TV app.
[German]Brief information for readers who maintain systems running Avira security software under Windows. A reader has just informed me by e-mail that since last Friday he has been receiving various customers whose Avira security software is paralyzing systems running Windows 11. The reader has provided me with the information currently available to him and has also outlined how to get the systems up and running again.
[German]Brief information for Windows users or administrators who come across "Metadata Staging" error entries of the DeviceSetupManager in the Event Viewer. This has probably been occurring under Windows since the end of November 2023 because a Microsoft Meta Data server has been unavailable since then. After two blog readers have already asked me about the topic, I'm preparing a blog post about it.
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[German]It is an exciting finding that emerges from a study by Illumio (provider of solutions for zero trust segmentation). Half of all cyberattacks on companies originate in the cloud. People are often unable to cope with the complexity of these solutions in terms of security. And there is another result of this study: cyber attacks cost companies an average of 4.1 million US dollars (3.81 million euros).
[English]Brief information for WhatsApp users among our readers who use the app on iOS. On Saturday, December 9, 2023, there was an update to version 2.23.25.76. However, this app version is blatantly buggy and shatters the WhatsApp functions – a downgrade is probably not possible. So, if you haven't already installed it, don't update.
[German]A few weeks ago, it was announced that Broadcom had completed the acquisition of VMware. Now Broadcom is moving to sell all of VMware's end-user computing and Carbon Black (endpoint security solution) businesses.
A couple of days ago, Microsoft has announced the general availability of the new Teams app for virtual desktop infrastructure. Now Microsoft has published, that they are is discontinuing support for the Classic Teams client for the Virtual Desktop as of June 30, 2024.
Google Drive users have been complaining about lost files for weeks. At the end of November 2023, Google began investigating reports from such users and described the problem in this support article. It only affected a few users who used "Drive for Desktop (v84.0.0.0 – 84.0.4.0)" for synchronization. There is now a support article Restoring files in Drive for Desktop (version 84.0.0.0 to 84.0.4.0) that describes the methods for restoring files.
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