[German]Microsoft has released an optional cumulative (preview) update KB5014666 on June 28, 2022 (D-Week). This is supposed to fix numerous bugs in Windows Server version 20H2 as well as Windows 10 version 21H1 – 21H2. In addition it brings new print functions. Below I give an overview regarding these updates for Windows 10.
[German]apetito AG, a German baded food manufacturer (with international subsidiaries) of frozen menus, menu components and supplier for schools, daycare centers, hospital kitchens, has become a victim of a cyber attack. Nothing is working on their IT systems at the moment – apart from a concise information on the company website, the manufacturer has not communicated anything so far. Here is some information about it.
[German]Victims of Hive ransomware may hope to decrypt their encrypted files. This is because Korean security researchers have succeeded in developing a decryptor for versions 1 to 4 of this Hive ransomware. This was possible because there was a vulnerability in the encryption that could be exploited.
[German]The manufacturer Bizerba (scales), located in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, has become a victim of a cyber attack during the night of Monday (June 27, 2022). As a result of this attack, all IT systems of this manufacturer were shut down worldwide. Too many details are not yet known, as internal IT is working with forensic experts to examine how the attackers were able to get in. Employees and customers are said to have been informed about the incident.
[German]Microsoft had released the preview updates KB5014019 (Windows 11, May 24, 2022) and KB5014021 (Windows Server 2022, May 24, 2022) and KB5014023 (Windows 10, Windows Server, June 2, 2022) to fix various bugs. However, those who installed the updates ran the risk of tabs suddenly freezing in Microsoft Edge. Microsoft has now corrected this problem via Known Issues Rollback (KIR) and rolled back the fixes.
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[German]Windows 11 was released on October 5, 2021 – but the announcement including the first Insider Preview was made on June 24, 2021 (see Yes, Microsoft introduced Windows 11). So you can say that Windows 11 is now one year old. In the meantime, Microsoft is already working on the fine-tuning of Windows 11 22H2, which should be rolled out as an upgrade in fall 2022. Right from the start, Microsoft's harsh hardware requirements separated the user community. Hence the question of how you judge Windows 11 now.
The European Space Agency (ESA) announced this week that the MARSIS instrument on ESA's Mars Express spacecraft will receive a major software upgrade. This should enable better research results with the nearly 2-decade-old Mars probe. The remarkable thing is that the software for the instrument was developed using Windows 98 at the time.
[German]It's hard to believe that Windows 8.1 will reach the end of support in just over six months and will no longer receive security updates. Microsoft plans to inform the remaining users who are running Windows 8.1 about the end of support through superimposed info starting in July 2022. This is to avoid people being surprised by the end-of-life (EOL) of Windows 8.1.
[German]Microsoft has revealed (intentionally or unintentionally) at an optional update for Windows Insiders in the RP channel that there will be a further build 19045 for a Windows 10 22H2 after Windows 10 21H2. According to the nomenclature, this feature update must still appear in 2022 – my guess is this fall. And it's now clear that the only Windows 10 feature update for 2022 will be rolled out as a "minor update."
[German]U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Agency (CISA) issued a strong warning as of June 24, 2022, that the Log4Shell vulnerability disclosed in December 2021 is being targeted by groups to attack unpatched VMware Horizon systems. In one confirmed case of compromise, these APT actors were able to move laterally in the network, gain access to a disaster recovery network, and collect and exfiltrate sensitive data.
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