[German]Since Monday, October 17, 2022, many Metro stores worldwide have been struggling with severe IT problems. I had already suspected a cyber attack on the Metro Group in a post and I had reports from Austria, from France as well as comments from German Metro customers as well as employees. However, a cyber attack remained unconfirmed so far. Now Metro AG has confirmed such an attack to heise – and on its website.
[German]Microsoft has published a new support article that addresses an error in the Outlook desktop application. Users receive error 603 "Can't configure Exchange Online mailbox" during autodiscover while configuring a connection to an Exchange Online mailbox.
[German]Gastronomy wholesaler Metro group is facing currently serious computer issues in it's stores – I guess world wide. First the question raised: Was there a cyber attack on the Metro Group in Austria? At least that's what the information I have suggests. But Metro says it's not known and talk about a "technical IT issue" with unknown root cause. In any case, for the past few hours, employees in Metro stores have been struggling with severe IT problems and have been unable to issue invoices, etc. Here is some information, what I know so far.
[German]There has been a major data leak at Microsoft, where customer data was probably publicly accessible. A security company found a misconfigured server with the data on the Internet and informed Microsoft in September. This is likely to affect some of Microsoft's customers, whose email addresses may have been leaked along with other data.
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[German]Brief information for users and administrators in the business environment. The just released Windows 10 22H2 is now also available for download as an ISO installation file on MSDN for subscribers (in the Visual Studio portal). In addition, Windows 10 22H2 is now also offered in Intune for installation on compatible machines.
[German]The developers of Thunderbird have released another update to the email client to version 102.4.0 as of October 19, 2022 (thanks to the reader for pointing this out). It's a bug-fix update, which is supposed to fix a number of issues. Because somehow the 102 development thread of Thunderbird is a disaster (see Thunderbird 102er: The problem bear).
[German]Mozilla's developers have released the versions 106.0.0 and 102.4.0 ESR of the Firefox browser on October 18, 2022. The ESR versions are maintenance updates that are supposed to fix bugs. Firefox 106 is a new development branch. In both updates, vulnerabilities are eliminated.
[German]There is a vulnerability in Apache Commons, similar to Log4Shell, which can be exploited to inject malicious JAVA code. Blog reader Ludwig L. emailed me about this issue, which is described in more detail by Sophos in the post Dangerous hole in Apache Commons Text – like Log4Shell all over again detaillierter beschrieben wird.
[German]Quick note for people who use AltN (MDaemon Technologies) email servers. The provider has fallen victim to a cyberattack – the systems have been infected by ransomware. At the moment, their entire business operations should be at a standstill. Here is a brief overview.
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