[German]The French Ministry of Education has banned the use of free office solutions with US cloud connections such as Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace in French schools. The reason given for this is data protection concerns, as the offerings in question are not in line with France's IT strategy and violate EU law.
[German]Vendor AnyDesk seems to have raised the prices for the use of its remote maintenance software considerably. I myself do not use such remote maintenance software, so I did not notice this. However, a blog reader pointed this out to me by email and provided some details.
[German]Microsoft hat released as of November 21, 2022 Edge version 107.0.1418.56 -Browser in stable channel. It's a bug fix update, the release notes says: Fixed various bugs and performance issues.
[German]Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 has already expired on July 10, 2019. For Microsoft SQL Server 2012, on the other hand, support ended on July 12, 2022, which means that Microsoft has also shut down the SQL Registry Portal. However, it seems that there are still a lot of installations of these SQL Server versions. In an article dated November 19, 2022, Microsoft notes that there are Extended Security Updates for SQL Server via Microsoft Azure services.
Security provider Trend Micro (TM) has now presented its Cyber Risk Index (CRI) for the first half of 2022. According to TM, the global cyber risk is at an elevated level. Many companies surveyed said they had experienced security incidents in the last twelve months as a result of which customer data was lost or stolen. Many companies had particular difficulty keeping track of and defending against an ever-growing cyberattack surface. Continue reading
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[German]Short tip for Windows 10 system administrators who find that new applications suddenly stop working and require the WebView2 Runtime. Microsoft has created a small tech community post showing how IT administrators can manually download WebView2 Runtime and then deploy it to Windows 10 machines.
[German]In October 2022, Oracle's developers had released VirtualBox version 7.0.0 (VirtualBox 7.0.0 with Secure Boot and virtual TPM support). Now, an update to version 7.0.4 has already been added to 7.0.2. This version is also a maintenance update for bug fixes.
[German]A few days ago, security researchers from Palo Alto Networks pointed out that three OpenLiteSpeed security vulnerabilities threaten the security of the web servers in question. The OpenLiteSpeed web servers are among the sixth most popular web servers in the world. Continue reading
[German]Microsoft had to set up an upgrade block to Windows 11 22H2 for certain systems with printers in September 2022. The problem was that printers on affected systems could only be operated in the default settings. As of October 21, 2022, Microsoft had already released a troubleshooter to fix printer issues. Now Microsoft has lifted the upgrade block for the function update to Windows 11 version 22H2 on the affected systems and classified the problem as solved.
[German]German Electronics retailer Media Markt was the victim of a Hive ransomware attack in 2021. I had heard something about a $240 million ransom demand at the time. Now the FBI has put the damage caused by the Hive gang to 1,300 victims since June 2021 at $100 million. The FBI also provides evidence of infections and how the group operates.
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2013 – 2016
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