[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.
[German]Progress Software, which has been hit hard by the MoveIT vulnerability, is facing the next trouble. There are further serious vulnerabilities in its WS_FTP Server software that could already being exploited in the wild. The products must be immediately provided with the emergency patch to secure them.
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[German]The ALPHV ransomware gang has just announced that they hacked one of the largest US healthcare providers in Michigan. More than 6 terabytes of data were stolen from the company's servers. The group is expecting a ransom payment or threatening to release the captured data – including patient data – on the Internet otherwise.
The developers of LibreOffice have released updates to versions 7.6.2 and 7.5.7. These security updates were required to close the CVE 2023-4863 vulnerability in libwebp (see also my post WebP vulnerability (CVE-2023-5129) affects multiple software packages such as web browser). The Document Foundation has published this blog post about the security update. (via)
[German]Microsoft has now technically ended the upgrade option from Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 for Windows 10 and Windows 11. This means that the previously still possible activation with a corresponding product key of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 is no longer possible in the future. Microsoft has now officially announced this and at the same time also adapted or ended the activation via HWID (hardware ID) via corresponding servers.
[German]Quite an unpleasant surprise that Microsoft has flushed onto the systems of its users of Windows 11 22H2 (and probably soon Windows 11 23H2) with the preview update KB5030310. Those using a plain desktop will now be forcibly greeted with a shadow font under the desktop icon texts. It's well known that "Microsoft knows what's good for its user base", but the result just looks like shit and here on the blog two reader comments have already hit complaining about this "innovation of Microsoft".
[German]Microsoft is working on Windows 11 23H2, in which the Explorer provides some new features. But the old Explorer in Windows 11 still seems to be buggy. A German blog reader reported a bug in Windows Explorer back on September 11, 2023. The problem is that the Explorer window focus suddenly steal the focus the while working in Windows 11.
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