[German]Another small addendum to the January 2023 patchday (January 10, 2023). Administrators should make sure that their Windows servers acting as domain controllers are up to date with the latest patches. This is because two serious vulnerabilities in the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) have been closed with the January 2023 updates.
[German]Some Microsoft Edge users are experiencing massive printing issues with the 109 development branch. For example, quick printing no longer works for some users. For other users, the printing process crashes. After investigations, it became obvious, that the Edge 109 on Windows has printing issues, when the printer name contains special characters such as German umlauts. Therefore, I have pulled out the topic separately here in a blog post.
[German]Security researchers have discovered a severe security vulnerability CVE-2023-22598 in the InRouter firmware from manufacturer InHand Networks GmbH. The vulnerability, with a CVE value of 10, leaves thousands of wireless IIoT devices vulnerable to remote code execution via the cloud. Vulnerabilities in the absence of a patch range from industrial robots to smart electricity meters to medical devices.
[German]Microsoft has updated the Edge browser in the stable channel several times since Jan 12, 2023 (on Jan 12 to version 109.0.1518.49, on Jan 13 to 109.0.1518.52). In addition, Edge 109.0.1518.55 seems to have been waiting in the wings since 1/16/2023 (I haven't found any release notes yet). I now have a report that the Edge suddenly enables the transfer of passwords to the cloud when a Microsoft account is set up. And the Edge 109.0.1518.55 puts a shortcut icon on the desktop, which only administrators can delete.
[German]Friday January 13, 2023 Windows users worldwide were affected by a buggy Defender signature update that deleted desktop shortcuts and more via an ASR rule. In a follow-up, I shed some light on why even home Windows 10/11 users could have been affected. And there's still an approach to restoring the deleted shortcuts from volume shadow copies.
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[German]Microsoft believe they have fixed the ODBC connection issue on SQL databases with the January 10, 2023 security updates for Windows. But I received a report that there are still issues with Access. In addition, I have received a report that the January 2023 updates for the C2R versions of Microsoft Office 2016 and 2019 also cause issues with Access and SQL database access.
[German]Brief information for administrators of Windows Server systems. How can Microsoft Defender be managed on Windows Server via Intune? Microsoft has an answer to that question.
[German]It looks like the developers at Microsoft are planning to phase out the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) for Windows 11. At least, Rafael Rivera noticed a corresponding note in the current Windows 11 Insider Preview. The Microsoft page in question, which is referred to, is currently not unlocked yet. Here is some information about what exactly it is about.
[German]Yesterday, Friday, January 13, 2023, Microsoft pretty much knocked out parts of its Windows user base by rolling out a buggy Defender signature via update. With ASR enabled, shortcuts were detected as malicious in Windows and deleted from the desktop, Start menu or Windows taskbar. Now Microsoft has confirmed the problem and revealed some details.
[German]Warning to all users of Password Manager accounts from the vendor NortonLifeLock. There was a credential stuffing attack on NortonLifeLock users' accounts in December 2022. The vendor believe that the attackers were successful on a number of user accounts and gained access to the Password Manager accounts.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
