Edge ads on Chrome pages, disabling IE, Firefox dead after KB5022906?

Posted on 2023-02-23 by guenni

Update[German]Today another small collective article around the topic Edge, Firefox and Internet Explorer. It is about the deactivation of Internet Explorer, which is supposed to happen in February 2023. With the patchday (14.2.2023) probably not everything was deactivated at IE. And with the preview update KB5022906 from February 21, 2023, there could have been collateral damage that kicks Firefox out. In addition, Microsoft has once again gone massively overboard by running large-scale ads for Edge on Google Chrome pages.

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Google Chrome Version 110.0.5481.177/.178

Posted on 2023-02-23 by guenni

Chrome[German]Google has released updates to Google Chrome Browser 110 in the stable channel for Mac, Linux and Windows as of February 22, 2023. Mac and Linux now reach version 110.0.5481.177, while for Windows, versions 110.0.5481.177/.178 are ready. It is a security update that fixes a critical vulnerability. Thanks to the reader for pointing it out.

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U.S. Defense Department email server unprotected on the Internet for 2 weeks

Posted on 2023-02-22 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Big fail that happened to U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) IT administrators. This week Monday, U.S. Department of Defense strategists secured an unprotected server that had been used to leak terabytes of internal U.S. military emails onto the Internet for two weeks. The server was not password protected, the TechCrunch medium has learned from a security researcher.

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Windows 11 21H2 Preview Update KB5022905 (Feb. 21, 2023)

Posted on 2023-02-22 by guenni

Windows[German]Microsoft has released the optional cumulative (preview) update KB5019274 for Windows 11 version 21H2 on February 21, 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.

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Windows 10 20H2-22H2 Preview Update KB5022906 (Feb. 21, 2023)

Posted on 2023-02-22 by guenni

Windows[German]Microsoft has released an optional cumulative (preview) update KB5022906 for Windows 10 on February 21, 2023 (C-Week). This is supposed to fix numerous bugs in Windows 10 21H2-22H2. Below, I provide an overview regarding these updates for Windows 10, so there will be no preview updates for older Windows 10 builds after March 2023.

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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Windows Server 2022: VMware ESXi 7.0 U3k Patch for Secure Boot Issue (Update KB5022842, Feb. 2023)

Posted on 2023-02-22 by guenni

Windows[German]VMware released VMware ESXi 7.0 U3k on Feb. 21, 2023, to address the Secure Boot issue of VMs. The background was that with the Feb. 14, 2023 patchday, an installed security update (KB5022842) for Windows Server 2022 prevented virtual machines under certain ESXi versions from Secure Boot. The workaround was to disable Secure Boot. A fix is now available for VMware ESXi 7.x – other scenarios with this flaw continue to wait for a patch and must continue to operate without Secure Boot.

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Outlook.com inboxes flooded with SPAM (Feb. 20, 2023)

Posted on 2023-02-21 by guenni

[German]If your Outlook inboxes (outlook.com, live.com etc.) has been flooded with SPAM today, February 20, 2023, the good news is "you was not alone". Something must have happened at Microsoft and someone switches off the SPAM filters so that mailboxes were flooded with SPAM messages.

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Licensing hooks: MS SQL Server license increased by factor 3, and user-based Oracle Java SE licenses

Posted on 2023-02-21 by guenni

[German]Today a nice article about how Microsoft and Oracle are pulling customers you around the arena by a nose ring. Blame the licensing thing. Depending on your view, it's either love or hate. Some will happily donate their money for licenses – you are doing a good work (there is no alternative), others curse like sparrows, but swallow it anyway. One reader informed me that he is "happy" to pay triple the price for renewing an MS SQL Server license. And Oracle users are rejoicing because new Java SE licenses are now charged by the user. This moved me to share this joy with you and write a small article about it.

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Windows Server 2022 Feb. 2023 Patchday: Secure Boot issues also on bare metal systems!

Posted on 2023-02-20 by guenni

Windows[German]With the security update KB5022842 released on February 14, 2023 for Windows Server 2022, a problem can occur during the second restart. Machines can subsequently no longer start after a reboot and either can no longer find their system drives, or they trigger a Secure Boot error. I had already described this effect for virtual machines running VMware ESXi. Now I have a report that refers to a Windows Server 2022 system directly (bare metal). A search revealed that other users are affected. Disabling Secure Boot helps – Microsoft and VMware have now partially confirmed this bug (for VMware ESXi).

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Caution: Exposed Wi Fi password in Windows

Posted on 2023-02-20 by guenni

Windows[German]Maybe it is common knowledge – I was not aware of it: Locally logged in users can retrieve the password of a Wi Fi (WLAN) under Windows if it was entered under the same user account. This does not require administrator privileges if done correctly. After a reader pointed this out to me, I was able to reproduce this myself on a Windows 10 22H2 system. Here's a brief overview of why it works.

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