[German]Microsoft Outlook 365 users might be affected by crashes that occur right after application launch. As of September 5, 2022, Microsoft has published a support post with notes on a fix for these crashes. Here is a brief overview of this issue.
[German]Mozilla's developers have released versions 105.0.3 of the Firefox browser on October 7, 2022. It is a maintenance update, which had to be added within a few days, because there were crashes with AVAST or AVG virus protection.
[German]In a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA), the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a list of key vulnerabilities (CVEs) exploited by state-sponsored cyber actors in the People's Republic of China (PRC) since 2020.
[German]Gamers suffer in Windows 11 because this great, new, must-have operating system probably makes the machine slow. The reason is there are to many, great security features, that slow down a machine. Microsoft has now provided a guide how to disable security features, to re-gain the gaming performance.
[German]The developers of Thunderbird had to release another update of the email client to version 102.3.2 on October 7, 2022. It is a bug fix update, which should fix a number of bugs. Here is an overview.
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[German]Microsoft now seems to be internally investigating problems with remote desktop systems that occurred after various users switched to Windows 11 version 22H2. However, the company has not yet decided to make an official statement. Anyway, another paragraph can be added to the never-ending topic of RDP problems with Windows. However, there is a workaround to solve the problem.
[German]A few hours ago, information came to my attention on Twitter that the RCE vulnerability CVE-2022-3236 in Sophos XG Firewalls is under massive attack. I had reported about the vulnerability in September 2022 and recommended patching it immediately. Here are some notes on the recent warning and a reference to the blog post in question.
[German]Microsoft had released the next rollout phase for the feature update to Windows 11 version 22H2 (as Windows 11 2022 Update). The stuff is to be distributed more broadly. Then on October 5, 2022, Microsoft followed up with a warning for administrators in the enterprise environment that the announced that provisioning packages may not work as expected.
[German]Technical threat research experts from German security firm DCSO recently came across a new type of backdoor. Dubbed Maggie, the malware targets Microsoft SQL servers, and an analysis found hundreds of infected installations worldwide. Here is a brief overview of the state this discovery.
[German]Microsoft has once again created a nice bug in the Click-2-Run version of Office 2016 – 2021. After updating to version 2209 (build 15629.20156) the contact window in the person view covers half of the Outlook window. The window cannot be closed. Microsoft has confirmed the bug – there is also a trick to mitigate the problem.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
