[German]German white hacker organization purchased several used U.S. military biometrics devices at auction through an online auction platform (presumably eBay). During the forensic investigation, it became obvious that the military and the manufacturer used irresponsible handling. Data located on the devices was unencrypted. The CCC gained access to a biometrics database containing the data of 2,632 people from Afghanistan.
[German]Brief note for administrators of Exchange Online instances. Microsoft announced in December 2022 that PowerShell V2 will be "deprecated" as of June 2023. From then on, the relevant PowerShell modules will no longer work. Anyone using PowerShell modules to administer their Exchange Online instances must have adapted their script before June 2023.
[German]A brief note for owners of a Microsoft Surface Laptop 2. Today, December 27, 2022, Microsoft's support for this device expires. A quick look at what this means for owners of such a device and how long this model was in support.
[German]Microsoft has reminded the days that the so-called Basic Authentication in Exchange Online will be phased out and switched off next year. Actually, this has been known for a long time and I assumed that this will already be the case from October 2022. But in January 2023, I guess it will become serious.
[German]Brief note for users of Windows10 XP and successor versions. There is a small project of German Windows users and software developers, who work on the optimization of Windows. The result is the Windows Optimizer (also available for English users). I have been following the project on the sidelines in its Facebook group. Now René Bengsch, who is a major contributor to the development, has submitted the 2022/2023 winter update for Windows Optimizer version 3.4.
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[German]Brief addendum from last week: On December 21, 2022, the team released the official upgrade of Linux Mint 21 to version 21.1. Blog reader Wolle had already informed me by mail that the version was available for the Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce editions. Linux Mint is one of the most popular desktop Linux distributions and is used on millions of computers.
[German]A short tip for administrators of Citrix solutions (Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Service). Sometimes administrators are need to log off users whose sessions have been in disconnected state for a long time. There is a PowerShell solution from Citrix for this issue.
[German]Short message for administrators who need installation media for Windows that are at the current patch level (i.e. already contain the current updates). Microsoft has released the installation images with the update status December 2022 as of December 20, 2022. These can be accessed from the Visual Studio Subscription Center for Windows 10, Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022.
[German]The Irish data protection authority DPC has just launched an investigation into a data leak involving 5.4 million Twitter user data (see Irish data protection authority launches investigation into Twitter after data breach). Now a new data breach seems to becomming true. A credible threat actor claims to have the data of 400,000,000 Twitter users and is trying to sell it.
to all my blog readers.
Frozen Rose with ice crystals, Canon A20, December 2004
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