Issues restoring backups due to VDM with Intel Core i5 11th generation CPUs

Posted on 2023-01-06 by guenni

Amazon[German]Unusual experience reported to me by a blog reader. He suddenly found himself facing the problem of not being able to write back a backup he had made on his Acer Swift 3 with an 11th generation Intel Core i5. According to the reader, the problem never occurred with the predecessors of this processor. But with some tricks the reader managed to read back the backup. I then did some quick research, it is related to Intel's VDM, which can be used with 11th generation Core i5 CPUs and prevents detection of NVMe SSD IDE devices.

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New Bitdefender decryptor for MegaCortex ransomware (Jan. 2023)

Posted on 2023-01-06 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Victims of the MegaCortex ransomware family can now hope to recover their encrypted files. This is because a universal decryptor co-developed by Bitdefender is now available for files encrypted by the MegaCortex ransomware family. With this free tool, victims can make encrypted data from all MegaCortex versions available again. The decryptor is a joint development of Bitdefender, Europol, the NoMoreRansom project, and the public prosecutor's office and cantonal police in Zurich.

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Thunderbird IMAP an oAuth connect issue with Exchange Online fixed

Posted on 2023-01-06 by guenni

Just a short note: It seems that Microsoft has fixed an issue, that prevents Thunderbird mail client to connect successful with Exchange Online using IMAP and oAuth2 (see my addendum at Thunderbird can't connect via IMAP an oAuth with Exchange Online (outlook.office365.com)).

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Firefox 108.0.2 released; Mozilla freezes user agent string on Firefox 110 because of IE 11

Posted on 2023-01-06 by guenni

Mozilla[German]The Mozilla developers have released version 108.0.3 of the Firefox browser on January 5, 2022. It is a maintenance update that is supposed to fix two bugs and also brings a small change under macOS. In addition, at this point a note: Starting with Fixefox 110 (until Firefox 120), Mozilla will freeze the user agent of the browser to avoid confusion with Internet Explorer 11.

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Microsoft Teams update process explained

Posted on 2023-01-06 by guenni

Teams[German]Microsoft Teams does not update via Windows Update or via Office updates. Instead, the Teams client uses its own update strategy to keep itself current. Microsoft revealed some details about the Microsoft Teams update process in October 2022.

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

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CES AMD talk by Panoy Panay: Windows, let your future be AI

Posted on 2023-01-05 by guenni

Windows[German]At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2023, Microsoft's Windows developer boss Panos Panay held a keynote with chip manufacturer AMD and addressed the future of Windows development. The message: artificial intelligence will find its way into Windows in the future and change everything. The boundaries of what runs locally on the PC and what has been moved to the cloud will blur, according to Microsoft. A glimpse of dystopian conditions? Gimmicks and spinning of a person who has lost his grip on the ground? Is it just wordsmithing or the beginning of a revolution?

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Irish data protection authority fines Meta 390 million euros and appeals it's own decision

Posted on 2023-01-05 by guenni

[German]The Irish Data Protection Authority (DPC) has imposed a fine of €390 million on Meta for user-based advertising on Facebook and Instagram. As a result, Meta is no longer allowed to run ads using users' personal data without their explicit consent. The whole thing was imposed only after massive protests from the remaining 26 data protection commissioners of other European countries. At the same time, the DPC has announced that it will file a lawsuit against its own decision. Seems it's developing a scandal or a kind of "banana republic".

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Exchange Reporter 3.12 available

Posted on 2023-01-04 by guenni

Exchange Logo[German]Brief note for Exchange administrators. Probably administrators of Microsoft Exchange (on-premises) installations know the Exchange Reporter by Frank Zöchling. The tool generates statistics for a Microsoft Exchange Server and outputs them as a report. Frank Zöchling released Exchange Reporter version 3.12 yesterday, January 3, 2023.

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Microsoft Office Updates (January 3, 2023)

Posted on 2023-01-04 by guenni

[German]As of January 3, 2023 (first Tuesday of the month), Microsoft has released non-security updates for still-supported versions of Microsoft Office. This month, there are only updates for Microsoft Office 2016, fixing crash errors in Access ODBC accesses and in OLEDB accesses to Sharepoint. Microsoft Office 2013 has not received any updates. Here's a brief overview of the updates.

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Attention: Central Adobe CA certificate expires on January 7, 2023 – no new certificate for perpetual licensing customers!

Posted on 2023-01-04 by guenni

Stop - Pixabay[German]Brief note for users or administrators of Adobe perpetual licensing software. A German blog reader alerted me about the expiration of a CA certificate on Adobe AEM servers or Adobe LiveCycle ES servers. As of January 7, 2023, any Adobe document servers still in use will no longer function. And there is no certificate renewal for customers who don't have a subscription from Adobe.

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