[English]On November 3, 2022, the Mozilla developers released version 106.0.4 of the Firefox browser (thanks to the user for pointing it out). Somehow the half-life for bug fix updates (that's what it is) is now a few days.
[German]The online storage provider Dropbox has announced a security incident. It is about the fact that unauthorized third parties probably gained access to Dropbox's GitHub repositories via phishing. The incident occurred back on October 14, 2022 and Dropbox was informed by GitHub that they had detected suspicious activity.
[German]The developers of Thunderbird have released another update of the email client to version 102.4.2 on November 4, 2022 (thanks to Gerold for pointing this out). It's a bug-fix update that should fix a number of issues. Continue reading
[German]Users who use Pantone color palettes (color charts) in files created with Adobe products will need a subscription to Pantone when using Adobe Creative Cloud in the future. Otherwise, only black colors will be displayed in corresponding documents, because Adobe has removed the relevant color libraries from Pantone from its products. The background to this is a licensing issue with Pantone, who are suddenly charging Adobe $21 per month in licensing fees per customer. Adobe is passing this on to users.
[German]Another brief piece of information about Windows 10 and Internet Explorer 11: On February 14, 2023 (patch day), Microsoft will automatically deactivate Internet Explorer 11 in Windows 10 if the browser is still active there. From this date on, calls to Internet Explorer 11 will be redirected to Microsoft Edge.
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WordPress developers have released version 6.1 of the software on November 1, 2022. In this version, mainly additions were made to the editor, and there is a new theme. The details of what's new can be read here. After update I'm facing issues publishing articles within my multisite blog using Windows Live Writer – the "wrong password" error. Haven't found the reason.
[German]As of November 1, 2022 (first Tuesday of the month), Microsoft has released non-security updates for versions of Microsoft Office that are still supported. This month, there is only one update for Microsoft Office 2016. Microsoft Office 2013 has not received any updates. Here is a brief overview of the November 2022 updates.
[German]The update to OpenSSL 3.0.7 is now available on the project's pages. With this, the team of OpenSLL developers has the new version announced a few weeks ago for November 1, 2022. The announcement of the update to version 3.0.7 attracted attention because it is supposed to close a vulnerability classified as critical. However, the whole thing has probably not become quite that critical. Continue reading
[German]Those who use nginx on Windows as a web server, reverse proxy and email proxy may have a problem. Sombody just found out that nginx for Windows in various versions like 1.22.1 has a vulnerability that allows privilege elevation for normal users. The reason is that the used OpenSSL library is loaded from a path that can be manipulated.
[German]Note to administrators in corporate environments who manage Windows 11 clients and are upgrading to version 22H2. There is a change in the connection of network printers, the connections are now done with RPC over TCP, as Microsoft has disclosed in a post.
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