[German]On September 12 (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 on the respective security updates for Windows 10.
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[German]On September 12, 2023, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office – as well as for other products. The security updates fix 61 CVE vulnerabilities, two are 0-day vulnerabilities. Below is a compact overview of these updates released on Patchday.
Margie Clinton, Group Product Manager on the Outlook team, and Robert Novitskey, partner engineering manager for Outlook for Windows have provided an update on the new Outlook for Windows (app) via video. That's according to this Techcommunity post, where the video can be accessed.
[German]Brief information for Thunderbird users, who observe the mail client suddenly can't sync mails from Microsoft accounts (hotmail.com or outlook.com etc.). A manual intervention is necessary, where JavaScript has to be activated and then the authentication of the Microsoft accounts has to be included again.
[German]Google has released updates to Google Chrome Browser 116 in the Stable and Extended channels for Mac, Linux, and Windows as of September 11, 2023. These are security updates that are being rolled out and are intended to address a vulnerability (classified as "critical"). Continue reading
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[German]Users of Windows 11 may run into the problem that the monthly updates or preview updates fail during installation since the end of June 2023. A too small WinRE partition on the system drive can be to blame for this. Microsoft has now revealed some details in a support article and explained how this WinRE partition could be enlarged.
[German]Brief notice for users of the Thunderbird email client who are still on the 102 development branch. The Mozilla team has just released the update from version 102.15.0 to version 115.2.0 of the current development branch. You can have Thunderbird updated – but this may bring some (unpleasant) surprises.
[German]Singapore-based security vendor Group-IB released a security report that points to specific activity by a group of cybercriminals called W3LL. The cybergang has developed a phishing kit to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts and offers this service to at least 500 other cybergangs through a secret W3LL store. Until now, the provider has been "operating under the radar" of security agencies because customers could only access the offerings by referral. The W3LL phishing tools were used to attack more than 56,000 Microsoft 365 accounts belonging to companies in the U.S., Australia and Europe between October 2022 and July 2023.
[German]Brief information for people who use Windows and were used to the fact that printer drivers from the manufacturers were also updated by Microsoft via Windows Update. In the future, Microsoft will increasingly rely on the Mopria standard for printers/scanners. Now Microsoft has announced that the distribution of older printer drivers via Windows Update is to be phased out. This will probably only take effect for new printer driver from 2025 and probably only for Windows 11 and successors, since Windows 10 will reacht end of support in October 2025.
Apple has released another slew of security updates for its macOS, iOS/iPadOS and also WatchOS operating systems as of September 7, 2023. These updates fix two 0-day vulnerabilities that were abused by NSO Group's Pegasus spyware to monitor mobile devices.
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