[German]Microsoft has announced of the BUILD 2023 developer conference, that Windows 11 get support for further archive formats. In addition to the ZIP archive format, which has been supported for many years, other archive formats (7-Zip, RAR and GZ and more) are to be natively supported by the operating system.
[German]Vendor Barracuda is warning of a 0-day vulnerability in its Email Security Gateway Appliance (ESG) that was discovered on May 19, 2023, following an attack. The vendor has since released security updates to close this vulnerability on the affected appliances on May 20 and 21, 2023. Those who use Barracuda's products and were affected should have received notification via the appliances' interface.
[German]The Taiwanese vendor Zyxel has released a very critical security update for all security products. The security warning states that several buffer overflow vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-33009, CVE-2023-33010) are affected. I have evidence that the vulnerabilities are already being exploited in Zyxel firewall products.
[German]Microsoft has released the optional cumulative (preview) update KB5026446 for Windows 11 version 22H2 on May 24, 2023. This is more or less a feature update (internally referred to by Microsoft as the Moments 3 update), which brings many new features. Below I give an overview regarding these updates for Windows 11.
[German]Owner of a Microsoft Surface Pro X suddenly face a big problem. The cameras of the ARM tablet fails since May 23, 2023. The forums are full of reports from affected users – and one blog reader has also contacted me because several customers are affected at once. There is a workaround of sorts to reset the date on the device to May 22, 2023.
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[German]Microsoft has released the optional cumulative (preview) update KB5026436 for Windows 11 version 21H2 on May 23, 2023. There are a number of new features and especially a long list of bug fixes (for printers, for search, for LSASS, for login etc.). Below I give an overview regarding these updates for Windows 11.
[German]Microsoft has released an optional cumulative (preview) update KB5026435 for Windows 10 22H2 on May 23, 2023 (C-Week). This is supposed to fix numerous bugs in Windows 10 22H2. Below I provide an overview regarding these updates for Windows 10. The information about the updates can be found in the Windows 10 update history page.
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[German]Brief information for WordPress users who use the plugin "WP to Twitter" to automatically submit blog posts as tweets on Twitter. The plugin has been suspended by Twitter "for violation of the rules" as of May 23, 2023.
[German]Anyone who has a user account with Google should also use it. Otherwise its loss is imminent and there might be problems if data or email addresses etc. are connected to this account. This is what Google has announced the days in a message about the change of its guidelines for deleting inactive user accounts. It will start at the end of the year 2023.
[German]It's a problem that some users experience with Windows: Internet SATA hard drives and SSD drives are shown as removable. This of course makes no sense and there have been instructions to fix this since Windows 7. The problem occurs up to Windows 11. Recently, Microsoft has now published a support post with instructions for a fix to this issue.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
