[German]Microsoft is struggling with various disruptions to its cloud infrastructure in the last few hours (July 6 / 7, 2023). Hours ago, the search in Outlook.com was broken – the cause was probably a faulty update. And currently the status indicator reports problems with Microsoft Teams private.
[German]Wonders may yet happen. I have the first reports that Microsoft has fixed the Local Security Authority (LSA) issue that has been simmering in Windows 11 for months. It was caused by an update, and as a result, certain features of Defender do not work and cause errors. Here is a brief overview of this issue and the fix.
[German]The developers of Thunderbird have released another update of the email client to version 102.13.0 on July 5, 2023. It is a bug fix update, which should eliminate bugs and fixes also vulnerabilities.
[German]According to an announcement by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, the U.S. has now implemented its obligations under the EU-U.S. data transfer agreement "Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework" (DPF) and is now in compliance with the relevant conditions. I expect that the EU Commission will now issue an adequacy decision in the near future. The matter will then go back to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), where it will have to be assessed whether the data protection agreements provide equivalent conditions for EU citizens.
[German]Japan's largest overseas port in the city of Nagoya has fallen victim to a ransomware attack (probably from Lockbit 3.0). The NUTS IT system, which is used at all of the port's container terminals, has not worked since July 4, 2023 (Independence Day in the US). However, operators say they are optimistic they will have the IT back up and running for the port's operations by next Thursday (6/7). Addendum: They are back in operation.
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[German]Microsoft has released updated administrative template files (ADMX/ADML) for Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise/Office LTSC 2021/Office 2019/Office 2016 and Office Customization Tool for Office 2016 as of July 3, 2023.
[German]The Mozilla developers have published the Firefox versions 115.0 (Release Channel and Extended Stable Release Channel, ESR) and 102.13.0 ESR des on July 4, 2023. The version 102.13.0 ESR is a maintenance update, which should eliminate bugs. Firefox 115 is a new development branch.
[German]Was there a successful hack at Microsoft in which the group Anonymous Sudan was able to pull data from 30 million customer accounts? The group claimed this yesterday, but Microsoft consistently denies it, saying there is no proof. What is known, however, is that the Anonymous Sudan data group claimed an attack on the Microsoft cloud, and Microsoft confirmed that cloud service outages in recent weeks were due to DDoS attacks.
[German]Another addendum from last week – Microsoft has released two dynamic updates KB5027318 for Windows 11 21H2 and KB5027318 for Windows 22H2. These updates allow corrections to be made to the setup during a Windows installation. Among other things, corrections can be made to WinRE.
[German]On Windows systems, it was possible that Microsoft Outlook or other 32-bit apps or applications were prevented from starting after installing the June 13, 2023 security updates. The issue occurred in conjunction with anti-virus, anti-malware or security software from certain vendors (Trellix was named). Trellix resolved the issue by releasing an update.
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