Over 32,000 Cisco components compromised via CVE-2023-20198 vulnerability

Posted on 2023-10-21 by guenni

Stop - Pixabay[German]Short note for users who have Cisco components with IOS XE in use and these components are accessible via the Internet. As of October 16, 2023, Cisco issued a security warning about the 0-day vulnerability CVE-2023-20198, which is unpatched so far but is being exploited in the wild to take over Cisco components. In the meantime, the vulnerability seems to be exploited in fierce waves of attacks and 10,000s of compromised systems can be assumed.

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Edge 118.0.2088.61 (Oct. 20. 2023)

Posted on 2023-10-21 by guenni

EdgeMicrosoft has updated the Edge browser in the stable channel to version 118.0.2088.61 on October 20, 2023 (thanks to the reader for pointing this out). The release note here say: "Fixed various bugs and performance issues".

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MO682702: Microsoft 365 suite disruption, teams affected (10/20/2023)

Posted on 2023-10-21 by guenni

Stop - Pixabay[German]On October 20, 2023, Microsoft 365 suite experienced a disruption. Users in Europe were unable to access several Microsoft 365 services or experienced loss of functionality. In particular, MS Teams users were affected and were unable to send messages, receive call notifications, or experience delays. I got also reports that Exchange Online had been affected. And administrators may not have been able to assign Microsoft Teams numbers to user accounts. Addendum: It was was power failure.

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Microsoft fixes slow Outlook start and freeze bug; fix will be shipped in November 2023

Posted on 2023-10-21 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has addressed the problem that Outlook from Microsoft 365 takes a very long time to start and then sometimes hangs completely (freeze bug). If the application is closed and restarted, Outlook is opened directly. According to an announcement, the problem, which has been known since June 2023, has now been identified and fixed. The fix has already been published in the beta channel and will be rolled out in November 2023 via a Microsoft 365 update in the current channel.

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Warning: WinRAR vulnerability CVE-2023-38831 is exploited by Chinese and Russian hackers

Posted on 2023-10-20 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Warning to users of the WinRAR archive program. Various state threat actors from Russia and China are trying to exploit a vulnerability in the WinRAR archiving tool for Windows. Attackers can execute arbitrary code when unpacking archives via the CVE-2023-38831 vulnerability. Affected by the vulnerability are WinRAR versions prior to 6.23 – currently WinRAR 6.24 is available.

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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Europol and other law enforcement seized RagnarLocker dark web site

Posted on 2023-10-20 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Europol and other law enforcement authorities like German BKA, the FBI and other international police agencies have seized the RagnarLocker ransomware gang's website, which was used to negotiate ransom payments with victims. It is hoped that this will cut off the ransomware group from its funding opportunity. Currently, there are no official announcements yet – they are expected to be released later today.

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New Outlook: Microsoft will definitely not support COM add-ins

Posted on 2023-10-20 by guenni

[German]Hope dies last, but now it's finally dead. Microsoft has just clarified in a blog post that the new Outlook app, which will eventually replace the classic Outlook, will not support COM. I touched on this topic here on the blog just a short while ago. Here's a quick update on what's going on.

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Thunderbird 115.3.3

Posted on 2023-10-19 by guenni

[German]The developers of Thunderbird have released another update of the email client to version 115.3.3 on October 18, 2023 (thanks to reader for the tip). It is an update which is supposed to fix some bugs, but does not contain any new features and security fixes.
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Edge 118.0.2088.57 (Oct. 18, 2023)

Posted on 2023-10-19 by guenni

Edge[German]Microsoft updated the Edge browser in the stable channel to version 118.0.2088.57 on October 18, 2023. The release notes here state, "Fixed various bugs and performance issues". With this update, the Bing icon in the Microsoft Edge sidebar has been replaced with the new Copilot icon.

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Sonicwall: Security updates for SonicOS close nine vulnerabilities

Posted on 2023-10-19 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)There are several vulnerabilities (buffer overflows) in firewalls running SonicOS that have received a CVSS index of up to 7.7. Sonicwall has therefore released software updates for SonicOS that close new vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-39276, CVE-2023-39277, CVE-2023-39278, CVE-2023-39279, CVE-2023-39280, CVE-2023-41711 and CVE-2023-41712). Details can be found in the SonicWall security advisory dated October 17, 2023. (via)

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