[German]Users of Microsoft Office 2016 or 2019 may be facing a very messy problem. A reader pointed out to me that on two of his systems, the Office 2019 installation had suddenly been replaced by Office 365. Doing a quick search, I found more cases. Microsoft seems to have set all the switches towards Office 365 subscription and there are numerous pitfalls where upgrading to Office 365 is imminent.
[German]Microsoft has recently released a specially customized version of Defender for Windows installation media. The package is available in Windows Imaging Format (WIM) and Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) and includes new definitions that support Windows 11, all editions of Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 and 2019. This update package is required because a Windows installation image may contain outdated anti-malware definitions and software binaries.
[German]Quick note/question for readers who use Microsoft Office with a perpetual license. I got reports, that an April 2023 update has changed in the name for the Office update page, saying now, that the app is receiving Office 365 updates. It's a renaming, and not switching to Office 365. But it confuses users.
[German]The Mozilla developers had released version 112.0 of Firefox with some new features on April 11, 2023. On April 17, 2023, the maintenance update to version 112.0.1 had to be released, which is supposed to fix bugs.
[German]A remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2023-21554 exists in the Microsoft Message Queuing service (MSMQ), which has been rated critical with a CVEv3 score of 9.8. Microsoft has released security updates for Windows clients and servers on April 11, 2023, that also address this vulnerability. Those who have not yet updated their systems should apply the patch promptly, or at least mitigate the vulnerability.
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[German]Microsoft confirmed issues with the latest Outlook version 2303 (build 16227.20212) last week. Users will not be able to view or access Microsoft 365 group calendars and email messages in Outlook Desktop after updating to this version, which will be rolled out in late March 2023.
[German]Unpleasant information for users of Affinity forums. The operator informs its users that there was a cyber attack on April 6, 2023. It seems that the account of an administrator was compromised, so that the attacker(s) could gain access to the list of members of the forums. In the process, the email addresses associated with the accounts were likely captured, as well as the IP addresses of the forum users.
[English]Google has released unscheduled updates to Google Chrome Browser 112 in the Extended and Stable channels for Mac, Linux and Windows as of April 14, 2023. Microsoft has also update the Edge browser version 112. They are security updates that fix a vulnerability.
[English]As of April 11, 2023, Microsoft has implemented security updates for various Microsoft products on the monthly patch day. There was sporadic feedback from readers pointing out minor problems. I will summarize various messages in the comments of the readers to a collective post in the form of a patchday gleanings for April 2023.
[German]Hard drive manufacturer Western Digital had admitted to a cyber attack on its IT networks on April 3, 2023. Now the hackers responsible for this attack have probably revealed details to a US medium. Thus, 10 terabytes of data could be stolen. The hackers are demanding a hefty ransom sum.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
