[English]Security researchers have come across an open Cassandra database instance that probably contained data from the Russian website instarobot.pro. The website is known for offering services for spamming and botting on Instagram under the name Zeus. The records also included a reference to an Instagram influencer with 40 million followers using the Russian Zeus bot.
[German]It is still a few weeks until the April 2023 patchday. However, I would like to remind administrators who are responsible for updating Windows Domain Controllers about a topic in the Domain Controller area. It is about the fact that Microsoft has adjusted the certificate-based authentication for Domain Controllers (DC) via update in 2023 and disabled the possibility to disable it (in case of occurring problems) as of April 11, 2023.
[German]Brief note for troubled administrators in companies who use FSLogix and are annoyed by the numerous bugs in version 2210. Microsoft has now released FSLogix 2210 Hotfix 1 (2.9.8440.42104). This is supposed to fix the numerous problems of version 2210. Here is some information about what it is all about in the end.
[German]A short post from the Linux world, although I'm not yet sure if and how widespread the problem is. A blog reader contacted me last Friday and complained that his LibreOffice wouldn't start after he upgraded a Linux Mint system to version 21.1. I did a little research.
[German]A brief flashback to February 2023 – since the beginning of the year, numerous VMware ESXi servers have been hijacked via a known vulnerability that has long since been closed. This VMware ESXi vulnerability has a huge threat potential and there are probably still thousands of unpatched systems. Here is a brief overview again.
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[German]Microsoft has released special updates for Windows versions still in support on March 2, 2023. These are supposed to fix vulnerabilities (Speculative Execution Control and side-channel attacks) in Intel's CPUs. These vulnerabilities in Intel processors have been known since last summer. The special updates are also only available for manual download from the Microsoft Update Catalog.
[English]Starting March 28, 2023, Microsoft will arm its Unified Update Platform (UUP) after a lengthy preview period for Windows 11 version 22H2. This is intended to bring the power of Windows Update and Windows Update for Business to on-premises Windows clients. Microsoft promises to simplify update deployment via WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) or Microsoft Configuration Manager. Here is some information on the topic.
[German]Brief information for administrators in enterprise environments. Microsoft has published an article as of February 28, 2023 with notes on what has changed when scanning for updates on clients running Windows 10 and Windows 11 and how the machines scan for new patches using either Windows Update for Business (WUfB) and WSUS. DualScan is dead according to this and administrators need to watch what group policies are set.
[German]Microsoft has just released its Moments 2 update for Windows 11 22H2 (Windows 11 22H2: Moments 2 update KB5022913 brings many new features) – which was more or less a disguised advertisement for Edge and Bing with ChatGPT beta functionalities. Behind the scenes, however, they are working on a successor, which will probably come to the people in the second half of 2024 as Windows 12. After I reported hints about Windows 12 before, there is now an (unintentional) hint from Intel.
Brief note for people who are in the Windows Insider Preview program. Microsoft has released version 1.2.4065 of the Windows Desktop Client (MSRDC) for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) to Insiders as of February 28, 2023. The production version is 1.2.3918, dated February 7, 2023, which is the last version of the Remote Desktop Client with support for Windows 7.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
