[German]The Mozilla developers have released the versions 105.0.0 and 102.3 ESR of the Firefox browser on September 20, 2022. The ESR versions are maintenance updates that are supposed to fix bugs. Firefox 105 is a new development branch. In both updates vulnerabilities are eliminated.
[German]Amazing results recently revealed by a performance comparison between Microsoft's Windows 11 and an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux on an 8-core Ryzen 5800X3D processor from AMD. The benchmarks were run by Phoronix with various workloads, using fresh installations of the operating systems. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS clearly outperforms Microsoft Windows 11 in the benchmarks. The tests show that Microsoft still has deficits in running its operating systems on the AMD platform.
[German]At the moment, there are more and more signs that Microsoft has the next "big" update for Windows 11 (22H2), which will be released on October 5, 2021, ready and will roll it out soon. There are new PCs that already contain this version – and installation ISO files have already appeared. I had already speculated in August 2022 that the Windows 11 2022 Update would be released on September 20, 2022.
[German]A nasty surprise for proud owners of an iPhone 14 Pro Max. The expensive sweetheart flops as soon as videos are recorded in apps for TikTok, Snapchat, etc. There are a number of user complaints about shaking and rattling videos using some 3rd party apps. Apple has identified the root cause and plans to deliver a fix next week via an update that should eliminate the problem.
[German]Good news for owners of Lexmark printers. The manufacturer has finally provided the firmware updates for various models. On the one hand, these are supposed to eliminate a vulnerability in more than a hundred Lexmark printer models, which Lexmark already warned about in June 2022 (the update had to be withdrawn again). Furthermore, the firmware update is supposed to fix the USB communication problem in Windows, which was caused by the July 2022 security update.
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[German]Game developer Rockstar Games was hacked. Now a user on GTAForums has posted 90 video taken from a test build of Grand Theft Auto 6. The hacker also claims to have the source code of GTA 5 and 6. The hack and leak is aimed at blackmailing game developer Rockstar Games, with the hacker also claiming to be behind the attack on Uber (see Ride share service provider Uber investigates hack (Sept. 2022)).
[German]More information on the hack of InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG) a few weeks ago. What was originally planned as blackmail then led to the deletion of extensive data when the blackmail went wrong. This is what a couple from Vietnam reportedly confessed to the British BBC.
[German]Unpleasant discovery that a security researcher has made public the days. The Google Chrome browser, and also the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser, may transmit in some cases personal data from forms to Google and Microsoft (in the case of Edge). This also includes passwords, by the way. The Extended Spell Checker in the browser or in the MS Editor is probably responsible for this.
[German]The developers of the web-based password manager online service LastPass announced this week that attackers had access in August 2022 to internal systems for four days. Then the unauthorized access has been detected. However, the attackers probably did not succeed in gaining write access to the development environment and modifying code of the LastPass software or accessing sensitive user data.
[German]The desktop app for Microsoft Teams stores authentication tokens as plain text on the Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms. This allows attackers to access accounts using these tokens even if multi-factor authentication (MFA) has been enabled. Customers should rely on Teams web applications or monitor access to MS Teams data through processes, as Microsoft will not close this vulnerability immediately.
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