Google account blocked and police action because of toddler photos for the doctor

Posted on 2022-08-22 by guenni

Stop - Pixabay[German]I have frequently reported here on the sudden blocking of online accounts with American cloud providers (Apple, Google, and especially Microsoft). Just now, a case is boiling up in the USA, where Google blocked an account because of uploaded "nude photos" and notified the police on suspicion of child abuse. Then, of course, there was the full program of the police for the person concerned. The only "offense": He had taken a photo of his naked infant for the attending physician via smartphone. The automatic cloud upload and a stupid AI then caused the drastic consequences.

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Windows 10 20H2 till 21H2: Update KB5015878 causes audio issues

Posted on 2022-08-22 by guenni

Windows[German]The preview update released in July 2022 or later updates can cause audio issues on Windows 10 (version 20H2 to 21H1) on various devices. Microsoft has since acknowledged this issue and documented the problem, as well as provided a Known Issues Rollback (KIR) solution that prevents the update from being installed. Here's a brief overview of what's going on.

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NSO Group in crisis – CEO steps down, layoffs

Posted on 2022-08-22 by guenni

[German]Dark clouds over the cyber company NSO, which made inglorious history with its Pegasus spyware. The CEO, Shalev Hulio, is resigning – and 100 employees out of a total of 700 have been laid off. Looks like real crisis the company got into due to the sale and use of its spyware.

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Security: When a (fake) "Office 365 package" suddenly arrives by mail

Posted on 2022-08-21 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]A small warning, which is mainly directed at inexperienced readers of this blog or users. Criminals seem to send packages to (mainly elderly people), which allegedly contain a Microsoft Office. However, the USB stick included in the package does not install Microsoft Office. Rather, malicious software is installed, which prompts the user to visit a fake support page. There, it asks the user to grant remote access to the system – the aim is probably to get credit card or bank details in order to rip off the victims.

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CVE-2022-38392: Janet Jackson song and crashing Windows XP notebooks

Posted on 2022-08-20 by guenni

[German]It's a bizarre story that Microsoft developer Raymond Chen recently made public: Notebooks with Windows XP crashed when the pop song Rhythm Nation  by Janet Jackson from 1989 was played. The background was that the hard disks used resonated and caused the crashes due to read/write errors. There is now even a CVE number CVE-2022-38392 for this issue.

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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Security researcher warns: VPNs on iOS are not private

Posted on 2022-08-20 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Security researchers Michael Horowitz warns iOS users, that VPNs on this platform is broken. It looks, that it works fine. But the iOS device gets a new public IP address and new DNS servers. A detailed inspection of data leaving the iOS device by Horowitz shows that the VPN tunnel leaks. This became firstly know by ProtonVPN, according to Horowitz, in March 2020 and iOS v13 (I found this reddit.com post from 2018, claiming a similar behavior).

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LibreOffice 7.4 released

Posted on 2022-08-20 by guenni

The developers of LibreOffice have released version 7.4 of this office package this week. Numerous innovations and improvements have been made to the individual Office modules, which can be read in the release notes. The package can be downloaded free of charge from this LibreOffice website.  (via)

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Website reported as compromised? How to proceed?

Posted on 2022-08-19 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Anyone who operates a website may occasionally be confronted with the problem that it is reported as "malicious" by security portals or by users. Then the question arises how to proceed to find out if this is a false alarm or if the website has been compromised. Recently, I was asked to look at such a site that was reported as "malicious" by security tools. Afterwards I thought about documenting the steps I undertook – maybe it will help one or the other.

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Security update for HPE Integrated Lights-Out (iLO)

Posted on 2022-08-18 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Note for administrators of HPE Proliant servers running HPE's Integrated Lights-out versions. HPE has already published a security bulleting for HPE Integrated Lights-Out 5 (iLO 5) at the end of July 2022, which pointed out several critical vulnerabilities. There is an update available for iLO 5.0, which should be installed promptly (but presumably the information has long since reached you).

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Sysinternals: Updates for Sysmon, AccessEnum, and Coreinfo

Posted on 2022-08-18 by guenni

It seems that the developers have released an updated version of the free Sysinternals tools Sysmon, AccessEnum and Coreinfo on August 16, 2022.

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