[German]I'll just bring up a topic that has been bumming around here since Monday, May 30, 2022, due to reader requests. Microsoft Outlook users seem to have the problem that one of the latest updates from May 2022 has corrupted the ability to display HTML mail. Only text or a blank mail can be displayed. Below is a brief overview.
[German]A new attack vector has been known since the weekend that abuses the Microsoft Support Diagnostics Utility via the ms-msdt: protocol to download and abuse malicious Word documents (or Excel spreadsheets) from the web. Microsoft has since issued a support document for CVE-2022-30190. I have summarized the latest state of knowledge.
[German]I often get told from my blog reader, that Microsoft's Office is a must have – and Office 365 subscriptions are the coolest thing since invention of "sliced bread". I just found an nugget, how innovative thas MS Office is, just to warm up – we still have "Follina" after all, which should keep admins busy.
[German]Brief info in the round of the owners of HP Windows PCs to a problem and immediately the question whether someone is affected. On these computers there are problems since a short time, the taskbar freezes under Windows, the Explorer crashes with errors or the whole Windows PC does not react anymore. It looks like the driver "HP Development Company, L.P. – Extension" is causing the problem.
[German]The Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team has found some vulnerabilities in a mobile framework from mce Systems. The problem: This framework is used by some apps that mobile providers deliver preinstalled on their smartphones. Thus, millions of users were vulnerable via these apps. Even though Microsoft only investigated US mobile providers and they have updated the apps in the meantime, the incident once again shows how shaky the entire app model basically is due to the use of various frameworks.
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[German]Brief information for the readership and at the same time the question if someone is already affected. I received a user message that Microsoft Access suddenly had problems with SQL database access. All databases suddenly showed the value '#DELETED' in the tables. The problem is the Microsoft SQL Server ODBC driver (shipped with Windows), which seems to go on strike after Office updates.
[German]Brief question to the readers who still use Windows 7 SP1 and force installation of security updates with ESU Bypass v11. Do you seeing that the Windows 7 activation is getting lost since May 23, 2022? I got a couple of reports from German blog readers, complaining about that.
[German]Microsoft has released May 2022 firmware updates for the Surface Laptop Studio and Surface Book 3. These firmware updates are supposed to fix issues, among other things, support for a dynamic refresh rate for Surface Laptop Studio with Windows 11 and improvement of the touch experience are mentioned as improvements.
[German]There is an agreement from Broadcom with the management of the cloud and virtualization specialist VMware, to acquire VMware (if the competition authorities approve). Broadcom confirmed this in an announcement dated May 25, 2022. The purchase price is expected to be around 61 billion US Dollar.
[German]Two vulnerabilities CVE-2022-27507 and CVE-2022-27508 exist in Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway, for which the vendor has issued a security bulletin. The vulnerabilities discovered in Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway allow attackers to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The vendor has released updates to address these vulnerabilities. U.S. CISA is urging immediate patching of the vulnerabilities, which are rated medium and high.
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2013 – 2016
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