[German]The platform Instagram, which belongs to Meta (Facebook), seems to have technical problems. Users cannot log in or receive a message that their Instagram account is deactivated.
[German]Brief information to administrators in the enterprise environment who are running Windows Server 2022. It is now final, there will be support for Microsoft 365 apps until October 2026. This affects support for Microsoft 365 apps (Word, Excel, etc.) on Windows Server 2022. As recently as December 2021, Microsoft had emphasized that there would be no support for the MS 365 apps in question on the operating system. I had reported on the U turn from Microsoft.
[German]In enterprise environments, how can you ensure that (certain) security updates and quality updates are rolled out to and reach all devices as quickly as possible? Microsoft is working on "accelerated updates" for this purpose. The whole thing has now been released in a preview for enterprise customers using Intune.
[German]Since the political turmoil, government agencies and companies in Iran have found themselves in the focus of hackers who successfully break into IT systems. Web presences of TV stations are changed or the hackers penetrate IT systems and extract data. For example, Iran's Atomic Energy Agency had to admit that they were hacked (happened only after data became public). I also have a description of how hackers penetrate Iranian industrial facilities. Below is a brief overview.
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[German]Microsoft has released update KB4023057 (Update for Windows Update service components) for machines with Windows 10/11 in an updated version in October 2022. The update is intended to improve the reliability of the Windows Update Service, in other words: to find any update problems on home users' Windows 10/11 systems that prevent them from upgrading.
[German]Users of Microsoft's Outlook client may run into the problem that no login to outlook.com is possible. This is rejected with the hint to use a personal or school account after all. Now, as of October 27, 2022, Microsoft has released a workaround that looked oddly familiar – seems to be the universal lumberjack for Outlook problems.
[German]A new bug in Windows has been known for a few days that prevents the "Mark of the Web" flag from being evaluated for broken signatures. Microsoft itself has not yet released a patch for this 0-day vulnerability. The vulnerability is already being exploited. Therefore, ACROS Security has addressed the problem and developed a 0Patch micropatch to close it. The patch is freely available, only the 0patch agent is needed. Continue reading
[German]Aurubis, Europe's largest copper smelter by its own account, fell victim to a hacker attack in the night from Thursday to Friday (Oct. 28, 2022). As a precaution, the IT systems in Hamburg were then disconnected from the Internet and shut down. Production, on the other hand, continued. The consequences of this attack are currently being investigated, and the company's share price has already fallen by three percent.
[German]Small addendum to the October 2022 patchday: The security update KB5018410 rolled out for Windows 10 version 20H2-22H2 turns out to be a real problem bear. Back on October 17, Microsoft had to roll out a special update to fix the TLS/SSL issues caused by the October 2022 security update (see Out-of-band updates for Windows fixes SSL-/TLS connection issues (also with Citrix) – October 17, 2022). Now Microsoft has also admitted that security update KB5018410, dated October 11, 2022, crashes OneDrive on Windows 10. Addendum: Microsoft has released an out-of-band update as of October 28, 2022 with a fix.
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