[German]The developers of Thunderbird have released another update of the email client to version 102.9.0 on March 14, 2023. It is a bug fix and security update, which should eliminate vulnerabilities.
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[German]The Mozilla developers have released the versions 111.0 and 102.9.0 ESR of the Firefox browser on March 14, 2023. The ESR versions are maintenance updates that are supposed to fix bugs. Firefox 111 is a new development branch. In both updates, vulnerabilities are fixed. Thanks to the reader for the tip.
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[German]A critical vulnerability CVE-2023-23397 exists in Microsoft Outlook, which allows third-party privilege exploitation. This vulnerability has been actively exploited by Russian attackers since mid-April 2022. Users and administrators should immediately install the Outlook security updates provided by Microsoft. As part of a patchday recap, I summarize some information in this post.
[German]On March 14, 2023 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for still-supported Microsoft Office versions and other products. A critical remote code execution vulnerability in Word is closed. Below is an overview of the available updates.
Microsoft updated the Edge browser to version 111.0.1661.43 (security and bug fixes) on March 15, 2023 in the Stable Channel. Readers have alerted me to the browser's new update, which was released shortly after Edge 111.0.1661.41 and is supposed to fix bugs and stability issues.
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[German]The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has succeeded in a new cyber coup. Investigators of the BAK as well as the Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) of the General Public Prosecutor's Office in Frankfurt am Main have seized and shut down a server through which cybercriminals were able to conduct money laundering on a large scale via dark net. In addition, data and bitcoins could be seized.
[German]As of March 14, 2023, various security updates have been released for Windows Server 2008 R2 (in the 4th ESU year) and 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.
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[German]On March 14, 2023 (second Tuesday of the month, patchday at Microsoft), 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.
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[German]On March 14, 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 about the respective security updates for Windows 10.
[German]Microsoft has released the March 14, 2023 security updates for Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019 (some as a re-release from Feb. 2023). These security updates close vulnerabilities in this software. The updates should be installed on systems in a timely manner to close the vulnerabilities.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
