[German]Microsoft received the German Big Brother Award 2023 for its "life's work" yesterday, April 28, 2023, because it uses its market power to force people, companies and public authorities to constantly transmit data during their digital activities, thereby making themselves subject to real-time surveillance. It is already the third Big Brother Award for Microsoft after 2002 and 2018 – that has to be achieved first.
[German]Microsoft tried to tell people in a techcommunity post a few hours ago that Windows 10 version 22H2 is the last version of this operating system and that you should kindly switch to Windows 11. The tech community post also mentioned that they are planning to release a Windows 11 LTSC (probably in authum 2024).
Blog reader Liam had alerted me about vulnerability CVE-2023-28771 in Zyxel firewalls via email just a few days ago (thanks for that). An April 25, 2023 post states that improper handling of error messages occurs in Zyxel ZyWALL/USG series firmware versions 4.60 through 4.73, VPN series firmware versions 4.60 through 5.35, USG FLEX series firmware versions 4.60 through 5.35, and ATP series firmware versions 4.60 through 5.35. Zyxel has published the support article Zyxel security advisory for OS command injection vulnerability of firewalls. There you can also find information about which patches are available.
[German]Brief note for users who deploy Apache Superset in their environment. There is a problem in the default configuration that the software can be attacked via remote code execution vulnerability. This becomes a problem if the server is accessible via the Internet.
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[German]Microsoft slightly relaxed the licensing rules for Windows Server 2022 in early April to correct some annoyances and better keep up with the competition. For example, the requirement that VMs with 20 cores require a total of 24 licenses was removed. The colleagues at The Register noticed this and they picked it up in the post Microsoft makes Windows Server 2022 licenses a little less cynical.
[German]There are reports, that the Microsoft Edge browser is transmit the URLs of all websites visited by the user to the API of Microsoft's search engine Bing. The "Follow creators" feature, which is now being rolled out more broadly for users, is probably responsible. This feature can be turned off, however, but is once again an example that Microsoft doesn't have its stuff under control and administrators are riding a hot razor blade when they unleash something like this on users.
[German]Microsoft has released the optional cumulative (preview) update KB5025298 for Windows 11 version 21H2 on April 25, 2023. There are a number of new features and especially a long list of bug fixes. Below I give an overview regarding these updates for Windows 11.
[German]Microsoft has released optional cumulative (preview) update KB5025305 for Windows 11 version 22H2 as of April 25, 2023. The update distributes a number of new features/bug fixes. Below I provide an overview regarding these updates for Windows 11.
[German]Microsoft has released an optional cumulative (preview) update KB5025297 for Windows 10 on April 25, 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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