[German]Microsoft will end support for Microsoft Office 2016 and Microsoft Office 2019 as planned on October 14, 2025. After that, these versions of Office will no longer receive security updates. However, ACROS Security will continue to secure these two versions of Office beyond October 2025 through its 0patch agent.
[German]I received a reader report complaining about problems with Remote Desktop Server. Various customers are experiencing freezing issues with virtualized Windows Server instances. The strange thing is that this effect occurs at a specific time of day. It could be, or is likely to be, due to Trend Micro. After I posted the German edition of this blog post, I got several confirmations.
[German]Administrators of Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway must respond as new critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-7775, CVE-2025-7776, CVE-2025-8424) have been discovered. Citrix writes that exploitation of a vulnerability via exploits has already been observed.
[German]Microsoft released the optional cumulative (preview) update KB5063842 for Windows 10 22H2 on August 26, 2025. In addition, the preview update KB5064080 for Windows 11 22H2 – 23H2 has been released. These updates contain fixes that can be tested and will then be rolled out generally as fixes in the following month. A preview update for Windows 11 24H2 is not yet available.
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[German]The security updates for Windows released on August 12, 2025, have caused some "collateral damage." Users of the Autodesk product AutoCAD are encountering a problem after installing the August 2025 updates on various Windows versions, whereby administrator rights are suddenly required. This also affects other software such as Firefox or SAP, and an MSI error 1730 may be reported. Below are some tips and explanations, as well as a possible workaround.
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[German]Microsoft unveiled its "Cloud-Managed Remote Mailboxes" on August 20, 2025. This is an attempt to free companies that have moved all their mailboxes to Exchange Online in the cloud from the Microsoft Exchange servers they still operate on-premises. These Exchange servers are still running in order to manage recipient attributes, as this is not possible with Exchange Online, or only with considerable effort.
[German]Last week, I received a reader's tip about a problem involving Microsoft 365 Office apps and HP multifunction devices with scanning functionality. Since August 18, 2025, there have been increasing reports that scanning no longer works in this environment. HP has confirmed that changes made by Microsoft to MS 365 have broken the Scan2Mail, Scan2OneDrive, and Scan2Sharepoint functions. Continue reading
[German]Another failure in the field of AI agents. The developers of the Brave browser have revealed a vulnerability in the Perplexity Comet browser. Using prompt injection, it would be possible to retrieve sensitive information from the agent and instruct the agent to place fake orders on behalf of the user. This introduces a new phalanx of security risks, and AI providers have zero protective measures in place against it.
[German]Data I/O, a provider of data programming for flash memory, microcontrollers, and logic, has been the victim of a ransomware attack. The attack, which took place on August 16, 2025, has affected production. Data I/O's customers include many German companies as well as Amazon, Microsoft, and others.
[German]Microsoft is investigating an issue with Exchange Online that causes emails to not sync with Outlook for 12 hours. This affects users of mobile devices where the Outlook client uses Hybrid Modern Authentication (HMA). Email access issues may then occur in Outlook.
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