[German]User of a "smart" Philips Hue light will have to create an account from 2024 to be able to control the gadgets in question via app. Philips had recently introduced a new security system and also promised support for the Matter standard. But now the company is requiring users of its Hue lights to log in to a Hue account in the cloud to use the app.
Google has released updates to the Google Chrome browser 117 in the stable channel for Mac, Linux and Windows on October 3, 2023. The announcement can be found on the Google blog. The stable channel has been updated to version 117.0.5938.149 for macOS and Linux. For Windows, the update updates the browser to version 117.0.5938.149/.150. According to the change log, a Type Confusion vulnerability (CVE-2023-5346) with severity level High in V8 only has been fixed. The Android Chrome app was also updated to version 117.0.5938.153 and closes the vulnerability. (via)
[German]German blog reader Uwe Kernchen has just pointed out to me an issues that users and administrators of Lancom firewalls (also offered by Rhode & Schwarz) have hade. Since October 1, 2023, the UF-xxx firewalls no longer receive signature updates. Presumably, this is due to Lancom's plan to change the key for the Avira antivirus engine, which may have gone wrong. The issue has been fixed on Oct. 4, 2023.
[German]Addendum from September 2023. Microsoft has released the two OOBE updates KB5030323 and KB5031274 as of September 26, 2023, in addition to various preview updates for Windows 10 and 11. The goal of these updates is to improve the out-of-the-box phase when upgrading to Windows 11 22H2 Moments 4.
[German]Another small addendum from the end of last week. There are several critical vulnerabilities in the Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) and open source mail server. CERT-Bund warns about these vulnerabilities, because attackers could execute arbitrary code via the SMTP service. In the meantime, the developers have provided security updates. Anyone using the Exim MTA as a mail server should urgently patch it immediately.
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[German]Microsoft Outlook users have been plagued by an annoying bug since the end of June 2023. The program asked at every startup whether windows open in the previous session should be opened again (even if there were no such windows). The options to disable the prompt were missing in the settings. Now Microsoft claims to have fixed this bug.
[German]A small reminder for administrators of Windows Server 2012 / R2 systems: These will receive security updates for the last time on October 10, 2023 and will then regularly fall out of the 10-year support. However, there is the possibility to continue to receive security updates via paid ESU support for another three years. And users of Windows 11 21H2 should also think about switching to Windows 11 22H2, since the former version will also reach the end of life on October 10, 2023.
[German]Microsoft has released preview updates for Windows 10 and Windows 11 on September 26, 2023. Edge also received updates. A reader has noticed that in his Windows "recently" the Temp folder is written full with folders and files that have the name Edge_BITS_xxx-xxx. I then checked Windows 11 22H2 in a virtual machine, there are the files as well. Here is a brief overview of the situation, which has already left its mark on the Internet since the beginning of 2023.
[German]On today's October 1, 2023 I'm 30 years as a freelance writer and now as a blogger on the road. And now I actually look back on these three decades quite incredulously.
[German]There have been hints for some time that Microsoft is working on the successor of Windows 11. The assumed "Windows 12" appears as an option in software and documents. Now there are again hints that Microsoft is working on something like a Chrome OS killer with the new Windows 12 – there have already been several times, but I have collected the information that I have come across.
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