[German]The developers of Thunderbird have released another update of the email client on July 12, 2022. This should fix a number of bugs and is already the second bug fix update within a few days for the recently released 102 version.
[German]Maher Saba is vice president of remote presence and engineering at Facebook parent company Meta, a top management position after Marc Zuckerberg. In a message to managers of the company, he instructed them to look for "underperformers" and kick them out.
[German]More than 124,000 confidential documents have been leaked to the British Guardian. The analysis of this data by journalists reveal that the ride service provider Uber has tried to influence politicians such as Joe Biden and has exerted powerful pressure. The texts also reveal that todays France President, Emmanuel Macron. secretly supported Uber's lobbying efforts in France. The company also used a "kill switch" during raids to prevent police from viewing data. Addendum: The identity of the whistle-blower, a former top executive, is now known.
[English]Quick note to people with Windows 11 who use Outlook and are wondering why search doesn't work. It's not you, Microsoft broke Outlook search again and is investigating how that could happen. At least there's confirmation that this is a bug.
[German]David Xanatos informed me back in June 2022 that he had completed an update for Sandboxie in version v1.0.22 / 5.55.22 and released it on Githib. Thus, this version is so "really final", as he put it. There is also a Sandboxie Plus with some new features. Here is some information about it.
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[German]Microsoft has released a new version 2206 (build 16.0.15330.20230) in the Current Channel. This version is intended to fix crashes in Office applications that caused crashes in Word, Excel and PowerPoint when accessing cloud documents in the old Office 365 version 2205.
[German]Attackers use Windows task scheduling as a technique and create tasks (scheduled tasks) there to infiltrate a victim's machine. The Qualys research team has investigated a number of ways attackers can hide such scheduled tasks. This paper describes three new techniques for hiding and deleting scheduled tasks in a Microsoft Windows environment. This is not theoretical work "in a vacuum," as the technique has been used by suspected Chinese attacker (APT) Hafnium.
[German]Taiwanese manufacturer QNAP has issued a warning as of July 7, 2022 that a new Checkmate ransomware attacks its NAS units via SMB services accessible via the Internet. Presumably, weak passwords will then have their credentials cracked via brute-force attack and the volumes will then be encrypted. The first cases seem to have occurred as early as June 2022.
[German]Macros in Office are a gateway for malware like Dridex, Emotet, Trickbot, Qbot, etc. Microsoft had plans to disable macros in Office 365 by default. Now this idea seems to have been scrapped again, macros will not be blocked by default in Office in the future either. At least, that's what Microsoft's told us recently within a few sentences.
[German]Microsoft has released version 0.6 of its free PowerToys for Windows 10 and Windows 11 on July 7, 2022. I haven't reported about these tools and the weekly water levels here on the blog for a while, especially since the software often came along with bugs and then caused problems. With version 0.6, Clint Rutkas, the developer of the tools, promises quantities of bug fixes and some new features.
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