[German]Teir China connections seem to have once again "come back to haunt" at Microsoft. I have come across reports that Microsoft no longer grants security researchers from China early access to zero-day vulnerabilities or proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits. The SharePoint incident involving hacks by Chinese groups casts a shadow over the future.
[German]A brief update from this week: On August 20, 2025, Apple released updates for iOS and iPadOS that address critical vulnerabilities in the operating systems. Here is some information.
Quick note for LibreOffice users: The developers released LibreOffice 25.8 on August 20, 2025. The new version is supposed to be faster, more compatible with Microsoft Office, and supports PDF 2.0.
[German]All supported versions of Windows (clients and servers) contained a certificate spoofing vulnerability (CVE-2025-55229) – already fixed in May 2025. On August 21, 2025 updated the support article and listed updates to fix the issue. On August 21, 2025, the RCE vulnerability CVE-2025-55230 in MBT drivers became known. However, I am currently only finding broken links on both of Microsoft's security articles.
[German]Noch ein kleiner Nachtrag vom August 2025 Patchday. Das kumulative Update KB5063878 für Windows 11 24H2 oder das Update-Pendant für Windows 10 21H2-22H4 verursachen Leistungsprobleme beim NDI-Streaming. Microsoft hat es zum 21. August bestätigt, Blog-Leser hatten ebenfalls darauf hingewiesen. Es bleibt nur ein Workaround bis zur Korrektur.
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[German]Microsoft is investigating reports that the cumulative security update KB5063878 released on August 12, 2025, for Windows 11 24H2 is causing serious SSD problems. At the same time, Redmond is asking those affected to report the issue.
[German]Another scandal in the field of AI training. US provider ZScaler has just come under scrutiny for using 500,000,000,000 daily logs from customer systems to train its AI systems. ZScaler sees no problem with this, but security researchers consider it a crazy idea. Addendum: They share this data also with third party provider (marketing etc.).
[German]A blog reader reports a strange problem. Outlook New is used as an app there. Since the app automatically restarted after an update (must have been to version 1.2025.813.500), it can no longer be opened. It looks as if the VC runtime is causing problems.
[German]On August 19, 2025, Microsoft released the previously announced out-of-band updates for Windows 10 (KB5066188) and Windows 11 (KB5066189). These updates replace the regular updates from August 12, 2025, and are intended to resolve the reported issue with the broken restore and recovery.
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[German]The August 2025 updates introduced various bugs in Windows, which Microsoft has since confirmed. On some Windows systems (clients, servers), the upgrade to new versions fails with error 0x8007007F. In addition, the reset and restore functions are reportedly broken on some Windows versions.
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