[German]Quick warning for readers who are on the Steam platform. A reader has alerted me to a wave of scams that is currently running and operates with fake accounts. Inquiries from supposed friends offer participation in a lottery. If you fall for this, you will probably end up on a page where Steam login data is requested and then stolen by cybercriminals.
[German]The security update KB5031356 released on October 10, 2023 for Windows 10 22H2 fails with installation error 0x8007000D for some users. Microsoft has admitted the issue as of October 13, 2023 and is rolling back the flawed component on consumer devices and unmanaged systems via KIR.
[German]Microsoft updated the Edge browser in the stable channel to version 118.0.2088.46 on October 13, 2023. The release notes here state, "Fixed various bugs and performance issues". The update fixed the (spoofing) vulnerability CVE-2023-36559, according to this entry.
[German]As of October 10, 2023, Microsoft has released security updates for Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019. On a number of Exchange Server systems, the installation of the October 2023 updates ends with error 0x80070534. The cause seems to be the lack of cleanup of the August 2023 update mess. Furthermore, some administrators want to re-enable the IIS token cache module. Here is some information about these issues. Continue reading
[German]There is a vulnerability in the library and tool curl in older versions, which was closed by the project on October 11, 2023 with version 8.4.0. Microsoft ships curl with Windows, and the question was whether curl was also updated for Patchday, October 10, 2023. My status is that Windows still includes the outdated curl version after the October 2023 updates.
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[German]At the end of September 2023, the cloud provider Shadow was hacked via one of their hosters. The platform is used by online gamers, and three blog readers emailed me about the incident (thanks for that). The hackers are now trying to sell captured data from gamers.
[German]On October 10, 2023 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for still-supported Microsoft Office versions and other products. With the April 2023 patchday, support for Office 2013 ended – but vulnerabilities were still closed. Below is an overview of the available updates.
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[German]As of October 10, 2023, various security updates have been released for Windows Server 2008 R2 (in its 4th ESU year) and for Windows Server 2012/R2 (the updates may still install on Windows 7 SP1). Here is an overview of these updates for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012/R2.
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[German]There are serious vulnerabilities in older products from Citrix, as the manufacturer announced in a security alert. Both the Citrix NetScaler ADC and the Citrix NetScaler Gateway are affected by the vulnerabilities CVE-2023-4966 and CVE-2023-4967. An update is urgently recommended, meanwhile the download is probably also possible.
[German]The developers of Thunderbird have released another update of the email client to version 115.3.2 on October 11, 2023 (thanks to reader for the tip). It is an update which is supposed to fix numerous bugs, but does not contain any new features and security fixes.
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