[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.
[German]The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has imposed a record fine of 1.3 billion euros on Facebook parent Meta. The reason was the transfer of personal data of European users to the US without their consent – which was considered a GDPR violation.
[German]IT security should not be a question of money – these are often pretextual excuses. MVP Tom Wechsler has put some thought into the topic and shows how you can even use PowerShell and a few lines of code to research IT security problems. In a post on Microsoft's Techcommunity, he gives an overview of how to analyze IT threats using PowerShell.
[German]Anyone in the readership having issues with RDP connections to Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) these days? It looks like a particular version of SxSStackListener is causing the problem. A user wrote a PowerShell script to determine the problematic version.
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After the developers released WordPress version 6.2.1 on May 16, 2023, they already had to follow up with WordPress version 6.2.2 on May 20, 2023. This is a maintenance and security update, which fixes a bug and a vulnerability.
Microsoft has updated the Edge browser to version 113.0.1774.35 (security and bug fixes) on May 18, 2023 in the stable channel. According to the release notes, the vulnerabilities from the Chromium project are closed. According to deskmodder.de there is also the update to version 112.0.1722.84 in the Extended Stable.
[German]Security researchers from Check Point Research (CRP) have discovered a backdoor called "Horse Shell" while analyzing cyberattacks on European institutions. This was injected as firmware on TP-Link routers by a Chinese state-sponsored APT group called "Camaro Dragon." Check Point Research (CRP) provided me the other day with details, which I'm posting below on the blog.
[German]Internet Explorer 11 has long since been discontinued. But there are still "leftovers" in the affected Windows versions. Microsoft has informed in another post about the next steps to "get rid" of IE 11 now on the affected Windows systems step by step.
[English]Microsoft has been struggling with a "Local Security Authority" problem (LSA bug) in Defender under Windows 11 since March 2023. This LSA bug leads to errors and Defender warnings that cannot be switched off . After several "repair" attempts, the developers are "throwing in the towel" for now and have pulled back their latest Defender updates.
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2013 – 2016
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