[German]Hacking rings have been busted in Italy for hacking into surveillance cameras and then selling the videos on the Internet. The case shows that the victims had often installed this video surveillance themselves and operated it without any further security measures or updates.
[German]I'm posting this topic in a revised edition as a precaution, since it might affect more people soon. Users of Windows 10 version 21H2 complain about problems with Explorer and Taskbar (freezes, crashes) that occur on HP systems. I had already pinpointed a driver update "HP Development Company, L.P. – Extension" as the culprit. Now it looks like this "nice" HP extension collides with the even nicer Microsoft "Search Highlights". Since Microsoft is rolling this feature out to domains starting next week imho, it might pop more often.
[German]Microsoft has released Windows 10 22H2 for Insiders in the Release Preview channel. This brings the first major feature update closer. Since this version was suddenly offered to people working with unsupported hardware, the assumption arose that Microsoft is changing its policy regarding the rollout. Right away: This is simply a bug.
[German]The unpatched Windows vulnerability CVE-2022-30190 (Follina) which has been known since late May 2022, is slowly becoming a problem. The countermeasures described by Microsoft (and here in my blogs) do not seem sufficient. And the vulnerability is now also exploited by the QakBot malware in phishing attacks. Furthermore, I have received information from Cato about the vulnerability. Here is an updated overview of the state of affairs.
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[German]Microsoft's Chromium Edge browser causes problems with PDF printing in version 102.0.1245.30, which was released on May 31, 2022. Even the bug fix update to Edge 102.0.1245.33 does not change this. However, I have a simple workaround that affected users and administrators can try.
[German]AVAST has discovered a malware campaign (FakeCleaner) in which cybercriminals manipulated search results for a cracked CCleaner Pro in such a way that they acted as malware launchers. If users follow the links of these hits, they download malware onto the system that steals information (Trojan or information stealer). Of course, it could also happen that a search for "CCleaner" turns up such manipulated results.
[German]The European Parliament and the EU member states agreed on USB-C as a uniform charging cable standard within the European Union on June 7, 2022. This means that this standard can probably come in mid-2024. Smartphones and other small electrical devices will then have to have USB-C as a uniform charging port in order to be sold in the EU.
[German]On June 7, 2022 (first Tuesday of the month), Microsoft releases non-security updates for still-supported versions of Microsoft Office. This month, however, there are only updates for Microsoft Office 2016. Access issues are fixed again. Here is a brief overview.
[German]A small note to administrators and developers who are responsible for the use of Microsoft Teams and use a data export via Microsoft Graph from Microsoft Teams. You have noticed that this export will be charged in the future? Whether this will turn into a costly locking, I cannot judge. Here is some information I came across by accident.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
