[German]On October 10 (second Tuesday of the month, patchday at Microsoft), several cumulative updates were released for the supported Windows 10 builds (from RTM version to current version) as well as for the Windows Server counterparts. Here are some details about the respective security updates for Windows 10.
How will or can generative AI find its use in the medical field and what are the potentials as well as risks with this technology? In the USA, scientists are also dealing with this topic. Among them is the dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine, who makes some interesting statements on this topic in an interview. Is the breakthrough of generative AI in the medical field imminent? Not at all, is the statement.
[German]Microsoft released security updates for Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019 on October 10. These security updates close vulnerabilities in this software. The updates should be installed on the systems promptly to close the vulnerabilities in question. Continue reading
[German]On October 10, 2023, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office – as well as for other products. The security updates eliminate 103 vulnerabilities, two are 0-day vulnerabilities. Below is a compact overview of these updates that were released on patchday.
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[German]I'm bringing up again an issue that has been bothering administrators for months, but probably hit some machines running Windows Server 2022 with the September 2023 security updates. After installing security update KB5030216, the machines can no longer boot. This also applies to virtual machines running Hyper-V or VMware ESXi.
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[English]Various updates for Windows 10 and 11 were released by Microsoft in September. The cumulative update KB5030219 for Windows 11 22H2 from September 12, 2023 (patch day) causes a broken Start menu, problems with games or trouble with Explorer. Then on September 26, 2023, there was the preview update KB5030310, which also causes problems. Here are some of the problems in a kind of gleaning.
[German]I'll post a short information for Sharepoint administrators here in the blog. Microsoft has already published an authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2023-29357) in June 2023. So the vulnerability can be closed via update. Now a security researcher has made public an exploit to exploit the vulnerability.
[German]Microsoft has made an U turn on a recent announcement that photos in albums on OnDrive would be counted twice in storage usage. The latest statement is that photos in albums will not be added to storage capacity if the photos are stored as files on OnDrive gallery.
[German]A buffer overflow vulnerability CVE-2023-4911 exists in the Gnu-C library (glibc) in the dynamic loader used to execute programs. The vulnerability, discovered by Qualys' Threat Research Unit (TRU), is called Looney Tunables and has probably existed since 2021. In the worst case, attackers could gain root privileges on the Linux system via the vulnerability. In the meantime, however, most Linux distributions ship a patch for the affected systems.
[German]As of September 12, Microsoft has released various security updates for Office 2013, 2016 and the click-to-run variants (2016-2021 as well as Office 365). There has been some feedback from users on the blog regarding problems. I'll summarize the problems in a review – one crash problem has been fixed in the meantime.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
