[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.
[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.
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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.
[German]Security researchers from ESET have discovered a malware in the wild that hijacks the UEFI and has been christened BlackLotus. BlackLotus is believed to be the first UEFI bootkit malware in the wild that can bypass Secure Boot on Windows 11. Malware can then also disable Defender or Bitlocker and HVCI in Windows. So much for the highly praised security with UEFI, Secure Boot & Co. under Windows 10/11.
[German]Zum 28. Februar 2023 hat Microsoft das Moments 2-Update KB5022913 als Preview für Windows 11 22H2 veröffentlicht. Dieses bringt zwar zahlreiche Neuerungen und soll zum März 2023 Patchday breit ausgerollt werden, kollidiert aber mit einem GUI-Tools von Drittanbietern. Wer den ExplorerPatcher oder StartAllBack installiert hat, muss diese Tools deinstallieren. Andernfalls besteht Gefahr, dass das System nicht mehr startet.
[German]Microsoft has released the optional cumulative (preview) update KB5022913 for Windows 11 version 22H2 on February 28, 2023. It is the so-called Moments 2 update, which contains a number of new features and especially a long list of bug fixes. Below I give an overview regarding these updates for Windows 11.
[English]Administrators of Windows Server 2012 R2 (Essentials) had the unpleasant experience that the security updates from February 14, 2023 could not be installed, but were aborted with the installation error 0x800F0922. As of February 28, 2023, Microsoft has now released a new Servicing Stack Update (SSU) to fix this installation error.
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