[German]Many vendors use outdated software components in their IoT components. Microsoft has now presented a case in which a web server that was discontinued in 2005 was misused to penetrate the systems of Indian power grid via vulnerabilities. The background is that this obsolete software is still used in IoT components.
[German]The use of Microsoft 365 (including Office 365) is still not compliant with European general data protection rules (GDPR). Anyone using the product is breaching European GDPR law – at least as far as the standard configuration specified by Microsoft is concerned. Despite subsequent improvements, Microsoft has not yet succeeded in ensuring the GDPR compliance of Microsoft 365. That is the conclusion of the Data Protection Conference 2022 in Germany.
[German]Little info tidbits from the world of electric cars. Mercedes is now offering a special feature for its electric models in the EQ series (EQE, EQS) in the US as an annual subscription. And it is an acceleration package that is supposed to improve the time to get from to 100 km/h by 0.8 to 1 second. In my eyes, the whole thing is part of the "experimental box" that carmakers use to figure out how to squeeze money out of drivers' pockets.
[German]I have received reports of problems with remote desktop connections under Windows when they are made via FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name). The connections can then no longer be established. The problem has been occurring since October 2022 and a connection to the difficulties in connection with Remote Desktop problems seems to be given.
[German]A German blog reader had already asked in a comment if anyone had noticed a memory leak caused by November 2022 updates to Windows Server 2016. I was about to write a separate blog post asking for that, but Microsoft just beat me to it and confirmed a memory leak in LSASS caused by the November 8, 2022 security updates in various Windows Server versions. The problem can be mitigated with a workaround.
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[German]Google has released a slew of security updates for Google Chrome in the 107 branch in the stable channel for Mac, Linux and Windows as well as for Android on November 24, 2022. The updates address vulnerabilities that have already been exploited.
[German]Today, a short blog post to ask: How satisfied are you with Microsoft's support as a partner? I have received an information from such a partne, which complains about a "tragedy of Microsoft with regard to the support of its partners". I like to get a first impression, whether this is a single voice or if it's more.
[German]On November 16, 2022, an unknown person offered a huge data set with approximately 487 million WhatsApp user data in an underground forum. The data set allegedly contains WhatsApp user data from 84 countries. The leak contains also mobile phone numbers of the WhatsApp users.
As of November 10, 2022, Microsoft had confirmed a problem with gaming performance under Windows 11 Version 22H2 (see Windows 11 22H2: Game performance issues confirmed by Microsoft). Some games and applications may experience stuttering or similar issues. The cause is probably an unintentional activation of the GPU performance debugging functions. The upgrade lock set by Microsoft has now been relaxed, which I added in the above blog post.
Yesterday, the European Parliament approved a resolution labeling Russia as supporting terrorism. Hours later, the EU Parliament's websites were attacked by cyberattacks. The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, confirmed the cyberattack on Twitter. IT experts tried to repel the DDoS attacks, but the parliament's website had limited access on Wednesday (Nov. 23, 2022). A group close to the Kremlin claimed responsibility. Bleeping Computer has more on that topic.
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