Windows 10/11 downloads blocked in Russia and Kazakhstan

Posted on 2022-06-20 by guenni

Windows[German]According to a report from the Russian news agency TASS, users in Russia no longer seem to be able to download IS0 files of Windows 10 and Windows 11 from Microsoft servers. The download only works with a VPN connection. It is currently unclear whether this is a technical problem or whether Microsoft (or a third party) has deliberately blocked these downloads and removed them from the download servers accessible from Russia.

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Edge 102.0.1245.30 ff.: "Hardware enforced stack protection" prevents startup

Posted on 2022-06-20 by guenni

Edge[German]The release of Microsoft Edge 102.0.1245.30 causes startup problems for some users, which are not fixed even in the successor versions, according to my knowledge. A blog reader has probably found the cause – it may be due to the "Hardware enforced stack protection" option, which causes problems on systems with AMD CPU. However, I also have reports that Intel machines are affected.

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Audio files from TikTok meeting show U.S. user data accessed from China

Posted on 2022-06-19 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]It is quite explosive: Bytedance, the Chinese owner of the video platform TikTok, has always claimed that data from US users is not transferred to China. Ex-US President Trump had forced Bytedance to keep the TikTok data on US servers. Leaked audio files of 80 internal TikTok meetings now show that US user data was repeatedly accessed from China. So the concerns of the U.S. security authorities were probably not without merit.

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Accusation: Microsoft patches Azure (Synapse Pwnalytics vulnerability) too slowly and endangers cloud security

Posted on 2022-06-19 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]You occasionally hear "we are migrating to the cloud, to Microsoft Azure, Office 365, etc., Microsoft will make sure that patching is done and vulnerabilities are closed promptly". But cloud users are, for better or worse, dependent on Microsoft's goodwill and capabilities. And in terms of timely patching of vulnerabilities, things sometimes look bleak, as a recent case on the Synapse Pwnalytics vulnerability shows, which I'll rehash here.

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Outlook: Login error since the last June 2022 update

Posted on 2022-06-19 by guenni

[German]I just got a user information on my desk that there are problems with the user login in Microsoft Outlook "since the last update" (probably from June 2022). Problem seems to be that the program can no longer distinguish between two online accounts. Here is the information I have so far.

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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Citrix Fix for broken MS Teams call in VDA

Posted on 2022-06-18 by guenni

Citrix has provided a fix for the issue in that MS Teams calls do not work in its VDA environment. Users are unable to complete a call from Microsoft Teams.

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Microsoft Security Update Revisions (June 14, 2022)

Posted on 2022-06-18 by guenni

[German]One more quick piece of info from this week's post. Microsoft has released some security description revisions as of June 14, 2022, which I'll just post here on the blog.

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Sign-in issues with Azure AD and Microsoft 365 services since June 2022 update

Posted on 2022-06-18 by guenni

[German]Microsoft is investigating another issue related to the June 2022 updates. It is said to affect Windows clients running on the ARM platform. On these devices, logging in to certain services is no longer possible after installing the June 14, 2022 security updates. This may also affect OneDrive, Microsoft Teams and Outlook.com.

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Russian RSOCKS botnet taken down in international operation

Posted on 2022-06-18 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]In a joint action of international investigators, the Russian RSOCKS botnet was dismantled. Authorities from the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom were involved in the operation. This bot network was rented to cybercriminals for years at prices ranging from $30 to $200 per day to launch cyberattacks and phishing waves on targets around the world.

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Microsoft account: Password cannot be changed …

Posted on 2022-06-18 by guenni

[German]There are mixed opinions about the Microsoft accounts required for online services and Windows. If there are problems with the account, the user is locked out, especially if the account has been deactivated. Now a reader told me about a new case where he can't change the password because the confirmation mail is delivered too late.

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