[German]That's pretty much off the mark. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) mistakenly published personal data of 120,000 taxpayers from the so-called Form 990-T, which should never have gone online. This is because the information provided in this form is confidential.
[German]The Black Basta ransomware group is, after all, quite active in spreading its malware and extorting companies. Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks' malware analysis team, from Unit 42, have taken a closer look at the group's activities. Palo Alto Networks has published a report that provides details about the Black Basta ransomware group, which first appeared in April 2022 and has been on the rise ever since. Continue reading
[German]The Microsoft networking team has changed the way network interface cards (NICs) are certified in future for use in Windows Server. This affects vendors who want their drivers for network adapters listed in the Windows Server Catalog. Microsoft changes the rules for certification for an operating system from time to time. For administrators, the question is: Can my NIC be used for all workloads? Which NIC is best for my workloads? How does Azure Stack HCI use Windows Server certifications?
Microsoft has updated the Edge browser to 105.0.1343.27 in the Stable Channel and 104.0.1293.8 in the Extended Stable Channel as of September 2, 2022. The update is intended to address the critical vulnerability CVE-2022-3075.
[German]Google has released the Google Chrome 105.0.5195.102 update for Linux ,macOS and Windows on September 2, 2022 (before the long US Labor Day weekend). It is an emergency update to close a security vulnerability that is rated as high. This is already being exploited.
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[German]Samsung has made public a serious data protection incident hours before a long Labor Day weekend in the US. In July 2022, hackers managed to penetrate Samsung's IT systems. In the process, customer data was siphoned off. The whole thing was discovered as early as August 4, 2022, and became known on September 2, 2022. Here is some information on what is known so far.
[German]Strange bug in Windows 10 in the feature "Create password reset disk". A reader pointed out to me that nothing the wizard isn't displayed when he called that feature. I tried to reproduce the problem on my Windows 10 test system and encountered the same error. I've rehashed it and I'm curious to see if this affects other Windows 10 users.
[German]Since August 17, 2022, Microsoft Cloud users have been suffering from issues when using Microsoft 365 Apps. Users are unable to log in and receive errors. I had already reported in the German blog post Microsoft Cloud-Störungen 17. – 23. und 25. August 2022 about issues with Microsoft 365 desktop apps. Since mid August 2022 users are facing login issues with Microsoft 365 apps. Now there is the clue to the cause: A web account manager plugin that facilitates desktop application authentication in Azure is uninstalled on affected user devices as an unintended side effect of a scan by a Tenable security software.
[German]Microsoft has updated the Edge browser in the stable channel to version 105.0.1343.2 as of September 1, 2022. It is a new development branch that includes some new features for corporate customers, but most importantly fixes a vulnerability in Edge, as well as other Chromium base vulnerabilities. Thanks to the anonymous reader for pointing this out. Addendum: Some German readers reported, that Edge 105 can't start after update. A solution isn't known – only a trick to switch back to Edge 104. What a mess! Addendum2: Registry-Fix is available, Edge developers says, workaround is ok and fix will come next weet.
[German]Since the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has also been targeted by various hacker groups. The days hackers probably managed to hack the service Yandex Taxi. Then the attackers simply ordered all available cabs to a certain address in the center of Moscow. It is easy to imagine the traffic chaos that must have prevailed there.
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