The car rental company Sixt has become a victim of a cyber attack over the weekend. Already on Friday, April 29, 2022, the cyberattack kicked the provider's systems into overdrive. As n-tv reports here, there were massive restrictions on the booking of rental cars. These had to be made in paper form, and Sixt could not be reached by phone either.
[German]Microsoft has announced the general availability of Defender for Business as of May 2, 2022. It is a standalone endpoint antivirus protection solution for small and medium-sized businesses. So, the solution goes beyond the Windows-integrated Defender in functionality, providing malware, phishing and ransomware protection on Android, macOS, iOS and Windows.
[German]Are there issues managing group policies between Windows 10 and Windows 11? This is indicated by a post that came to my attention in the patchmanagement.org mailing list the other day. It says that group policies set under Windows 11 may not be able to be adjusted on Windows 10 clients in some settings. I'll post it on the blog, and ask if anyone has noticed anything similar.
[German]Microsoft plans in May 2022 to switch systems with Microsoft 365 currently in semi-annual enterprise channel to the monthly enterprise channel. This means that the Office apps will then be updated every month. Administrators, who do not want this must actively initiate an opt-out in the Microsoft 365 Apps Admin Center untill May 20, 2022. The information has been distributed as a notification in the Admin Center at the end of April 2022. Here is some information about this process.
[German]Microsoft has released the preview update KB5012643 for Windows 11 on April 25, 2022. However, the update can cause display problems in safe mode, so that this mode can no longer be used. Microsoft has since confirmed the bug and is rolling back the patches via KIR. Here is a brief overview of this issue.
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[German]Does Word take an unusually long time to start on Windows 10 clients? Does the Windows 10 20H2 client go into black screen for 2 minutes or more after user login? Or does the event viewer seem to hang when loading events? These and similar effects can be caused by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Let me summarize some information.
[German]How widespread is Windows 11 in use in April 2022, after it was released in October 2021? Microsoft does not disclose any figures. The data that can somehow be obtained from third-party sources is very contradictory. After AdDuplex presented its latest figures for April 2022, it is clear that the increase in Windows 11 use has stagnated since March 2022.
[German]On April 28, 2022, the Higher Administrative Court in Münster dismissed the appeal by the German-based branch of the company from the Russian Kaspersky Group against the BSI's warning, not to use Kaspersky Antivirus. This upheld a former ruling by the Cologne Regional Court. The latter had approved that the BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, Federal Office for Information Security) was allowed to warn against Kaspersky's antivirus software.
[German]Microsoft has updated the Chromium Edge browser to version Edge 101.0.1210.32 as of April 28, 2022. It is a maintenance update that fixes the two vulnerabilities CVE-2022-29146 and CVE-2022-29147 (see also the release notes page for the new version). No idea if the bug mentioned in the post Chrome 101.0.4951.41 fixes 30 Vulnerabilities – but has a GPO bug is also present on Edge. The browser should update automatically, but can also be downloaded here.
[German]A little opsie for the morning. Many users are struggling with the hardware requirements that Microsoft has set for Windows 11. Some have used an official trick revealed by Microsoft to install the operating system on incompatible machines. Now, it has come to light in a webcast that Microsoft employees are also running Windows 11 on such incompatible machines.
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