[German]The lack of a comprehensive federal law to protect U.S. citizens from online tracking by online platforms is a growing problem in the United States. Companies are trying to collect and store vast amounts of search data and other information from consumers. This is now prompting the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to plan an expansion of online data protection.
[German]Users of Microsoft Office products beware. Microsoft has commented on a crash bug in Outlook (I reported recently) and published a workaround. In addition, Microsoft 365 had to be rolled back from version 2206 to version 2205 due to app crashes in the Monthly Channel – I reported this bug just a few hours ago.
[German]Another short addendum from patchday, August 9, 2022. A security update for the Secure Boot module was also provided there by Microsoft. It is a security update for the Secure Boot (DBX) that can be used by Windows on UEFI machines. The update affects all versions of Windows that are still in support. Addendum: Some users are facing an install error 0x800f0922.
[German]Microsoft has released a security update (KB5016618) for Internet Explorer on August 9, 2022. However, this is only available separately for selected Windows versions as a cumulative update. Here's an overview of this patch, which is intended to close vulnerabilities in the browser.
[German]Both Foxit PDF Reader and Foxit PDF Editor contain security vulnerabilities that have been assigned a CVSS Base Score of 10.0. Anyone using these products in the Windows or macOS environment should take care of the corresponding product updates as soon as possible. Here is some information on the topic – thanks to blog reader Helmut S. for the corresponding tip (Foxit has not been on my radar for a while).
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[German]Microsoft has just confirmed a bug in Microsoft 365 apps version 2206 in a ticket. The bug causes crashes in Office apps when performing certain operations. The issue occurs in Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise in the Monthly Channel. Addendum: It seems that Microsoft is rolling back to version 2205.
[German]US vendor Cisco was the victim of a cyber attack in May 2022, in which attackers were able to penetrate the company's IT infrastructure. As of August 10, 2022, Cisco has made this attack public – also because the attackers published captured information. At the same time, Cisco Talos released some information about the attack. Apparently, the Cisco security team was aware of the attacks early on and was able to observe the attacker (Yanluowang Ransomware gang) in their activities.
[German]Mozilla developers have released versions 103.0.2 of the Firefox browser on August 9, 2022. This is maintenance update, which is supposed to fix bugs.
On August 10, 2022, Microsoft 365 services experienced an outage that specifically affected North America but also EMEA. Users had problems with Office 365, Outlook and other services. It was probably due to a false alarm within the Cisco Meraki firewall used by Microsoft.
[German]On August 9, 2022 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for still-supported Microsoft Office versions and other products. However, there is collateral damage for Excel 2013. Here is an overview of the available updates.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
