[German]Mozilla's developers had released version 113.0 of Firefox with some new features on May 9, 2023. On May 12, 2023, the maintenance update to version 113.0.1 had to be released, which is supposed to fix bugs.
[German]Microsoft has again delivered a fix for an Outlook vulnerability with Windows updates as of May 9, 2023. This update is intended to close a vulnerability in Outlook that was already incompletely patched in March 2023. Russian hackers have exploited this vulnerability in the past.
[German]The developers of Thunderbird have released another maintenance update of the email client to version 102.11.0 on May 11, 2023. It is a bug fix update, which should eliminate bugs. Thanks to the blog reader for the tip.
[German]The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI have announced that they have disabled the Snake spyware. This spy software was abused by the Russian secret service to infect computer systems and use them for spying. Over the past 20 years, the Russian secret service FSB has used the software to spy on numerous public agencies, research institutions and media outlets.
[German]On May 9, 2023 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for still-supported Microsoft Office versions and other products. With the April 2023 patchday, support for Office 2013 ended – but vulnerabilities were still closed in May. Below is an overview of the available updates.
[Sponsored Post]In the rapidly evolving IT world, choosing the right remote desktop software is critical for organizations that value security, ease of use and reliability. One provider of secure remote access that has been on the market since 2001 is ISL Online, which presents some considerations for choosing such software below. More ...
[German]As of May 9, various security updates have been released for Windows Server 2008 R2 (in its 4th ESU year) as well as for Windows Server 2012/R2 (the updates may still run on Windows 7 SP1). Here is an overview of these updates for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012/R2.
Continue reading
[German]On May 9, 2023 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft patch day), Microsoft also released cumulative updates for Windows 11 22H1 and 22H2. In addition, Windows Server 2022 received an update. Here are some details about these updates, which are supposed to fix vulnerabilities as well as issues.
Continue reading
[German]On May 9, 2023 (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.
[German]On May 9, 2023, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office – as well as for other products. The security updates fix 37 CVE vulnerabilities, six of which are critical and 36 are classified as important. Below is a compact overview of these updates released on Patchday.A list of updates can be found on this Microsoft page. Details about the update packages for Windows, Office, etc. are available in separate blog posts.
[German]Microsoft has again reminded on May 8, 2023, that as a security measure for Exchange Online, they will now start to delay the delivery of mails from (on-premises) Exchange servers if these systems have fallen out of support or are not patched. This is a security measure that had been announced by Redmond some time ago and is now being implemented in stages.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
