[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.
[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.
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[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.
[German]A few hours ago, the Tor browser received a security update that closed a vulnerability. Now Microsoft Defender in the form of Windows Security triggers an alert when the Tor browser is called up and quarantines the tor.exe file. It warns about a "Trojan:Win32/Malgent!MTB".
[German]Another note to administrators and users of Jabra headsets (e.g. Jabra Evolve 62 and 75) who use them in a corporate environment with Microsoft Teams. After there were already problems in connection with Microsoft Teams in December 2022 as well as in February 2023, which were however fixed via firmware update, I have now received reports of new problems. Since September 28, 2023, I have received corresponding reader reports. I am compiling the information that I have received from users – perhaps someone else is affected.
[German]The Mint development team has released the Linux distribution LMDE 6 "Faye" for download on September 27, 2023 after a short beta phase. The abbreviation LMDE stands for "Linux Mint Debian Edition", i.e. an edition that closely resembles Debian.
Just saw that as of Sept. 28, 2023, the U.S. National Security Agency (CISA) indicates that Cisco has issued security advisories for several products. Vulnerabilities in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager are rated "critical," while others are rated "high." Some of these vulnerabilities could be exploited by a remote cyber threat actor to take control of an affected system. CISA recommends that users and administrators read the following advisories and install the required updates.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
