[German]Extensions for Google Chrome such as adblockers, price tracking extensions or spell checkers are convenient and quick to install. However, for security reasons, you should keep your hands off them, as the extensions can compromise online security. Google's developers have reacted and want to warn against harmful extensions were (if they are known).
[German]Are there sudden login problems or errors when logging out of a session under Citrix VDI? If FSLogix is used and it uses cloud cache locations for profiles or ODFC containers along with App Layering Elastic Layers, this may be the cause.
[German]Small addendum to the vulnerability CVE-2023-32019 in the Windows kernel. Microsoft had patched the relevant vulnerability on patchday (June 13, 2023), but had not armed it. The vulnerability CVE-2023-32019 can be used to obtain information. To enable the fix against the vulnerability, administrators could previously set a registry entry under Windows. Now Microsoft has automatically armed this protection against the vulnerability for all users with the security updates of August 8, 2023.
[German]I don't know how common WinRAR is among the blog readers. WiNRAR developers have fixed a critical code execution vulnerability (CVE-2023-40477) in the software. It is enough to open a compromised archive file to allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on the victim's target system. Therefore, those who use WinRAR should install the latest version 6.23. Addendum: It was suspected, that software products that contain the WinRAR libraries are also affected. But that seems not be true.
[German]There has been a data leak at NXP Semiconductors, a manufacturer of electronic semiconductor components. The Dutch company is the 2006 spin-off of the semiconductor division of Royal Philips. Following the acquisition of Freescale, NXP is Europe's largest semiconductor manufacturer with sales of almost 9 billion euros.
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[German]Security researchers from Aqua Security came across several vulnerabilities in Microsoft's PowerShell gallery some time ago. The vulnerabilities were then reported to Redmond, where unsuccessful attempts were made to fix the bugs with patches. Now the security researchers have gone public with a report about this a few days ago to warn about these vulnerabilities.
[German]On August 5, 2023, I received an e-mail from Microsoft informing me about changes to the service contract. It says that the service contract has been made "clearer now". If you take a look at the details, you will see that a new AI services category has been added.
[German]I recieved a report from a German administrator, telling me, that inplace upgrades from Windows 10 (22H2) to the current Windows 11 version 22H2 fails in his enterprise environment. The issue has been observed since August 8, 2023. After I've published the German edition of this blog post, more affected users confirmed that. Finally the administrator came back with a solution, the dynamic updates downloaded during setup seems to be the culprit. Here is an overview about that topic.
The US security agency CISA warns about the Citrix ShareFile RCE vulnerability CVE-2023-24489 (CVSS score 9.1) and has added it to its vulnerability list. Citrix ShareFile is a widely used cloud-based file sharing application. The vulnerability being attacked in the wild had been addressed by me as of August 1, 2023 in the blog post Citrix ShareFile RCE vulnerability CVE-2023-24489 is under attack.
[German]A couple of weeks ago, Mozilla's developers has released Firefox version 116.0.0 und then version 116.0.1 on August 7, 2023. On August 16, 2023, version 116.0.3 was added as a new bug fix update. However, I have received a report that there were problems with the copy & paste function of the clipboard with this version – similar to the last WhatsApp update.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
