[German]When Microsoft discontinues support for Windows 10 22H2 on October 14, 2025, private users will have the option of receiving updates for another year through the Extended Security Update Program (ESU). In the meantime, a few points have emerged that I would like to summarize below for interested readers.
[German]Large Language Models (LLMs) can be attacked via prompts in order to elicit unauthorized data from the models. Man-in-the-prompt browser attacks could also be used to manipulate AI requests from users and use them for criminal activities.
[German]US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has instructed US diplomats to work to undermine the EU's online moderation rules and to lobby the EU Commission accordingly. This is according to an article by Reuters, which has obtained a copy of a letter sent to diplomats in the EU.
[German]Microsoft Exchange Server hybrid configurations are vulnerable to the elevation of privilege vulnerability CVE-2025-53786. Over 28,000 instances are still unpatched. The US CISA has given authorities until Monday, August 11, 2025, to patch the vulnerability. Here is an overview
[German]Microsoft offers biometric authentication via Windows Hello on Windows 10 and Windows 11. Logging in securely using facial recognition or fingerprints instead of passwords? Not really, according to German security researchers, who warn against using Windows Hello in corporate environments.
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[German]The Microsoft Lens mobile app will be discontinued on September 15, 2025. Microsoft just announced this in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Its replacement will be—you guessed it—Microsoft Copilot.
[German]Cannonical released Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat) as a point release on August 8, 2025. The Ubuntu version provided for its desktop, server, and cloud products comes with long-term support.
[German]Another brief summary of security vulnerabilities in devices. At the end of July 2025, Lenovo notebooks reported vulnerabilities that could be closed via UEFI updates. And in Dell notebooks, a vulnerability called ReVault was found in the ControlVault3 firmware for Broadcom chips. NVIDIA GPUs are vulnerable to an attack called GPUHammer and should be protected against it via ECC testing.
[German]On August 8, 2025, Microsoft updated its template files (Administrative Templates, ADMX/ADML files) for Microsoft Office 2016 and higher to version 5516.1000. The template files contain the group policies for managing Microsoft Office.
[German]I'm going to quickly mention something I just came across here in the blog. The download section of the Microsoft website does not offer ADMX templates for Microsoft Office for download – an error message appears. Here is my (changing and supplementary) summary. Addendum: The broken link has been fixed and there is a new ADMX version.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
