[German]If you follow the press coverage, Windows 11 is a tremendous success – almost 20 % of the desktop market should already run with this operating system. But there are doubts – an analysis by Lansweeper suggests that Windows 11 will run on about 1.44% of all PCs in April 2022. I have not heard any figures from Microsoft so far. So it's time to put the Lansweeper numbers against the AdDuplex data.
[German]Delegates from the European Parliament and EU member states agreed on the Digital Services Act (DSA) in Brussels today, April 23, 2022. This is a law on digital services that is intended to ensure stricter supervision of online platforms and more protection for consumers. This primarily affects U.S. platforms such as Facebook or Google, which will have to delete hate speech and other illegal content on the Internet in the European Union more quickly in the future.
[German]Cybercriminals are attacking systems with ransomware via the popular open source software Jupyter Notebook. Team Nautilus, Aqua Security's research unit specializing in the cloud-native technology stack, discovered this new attack method. Aqua Security is the largest provider of pure cloud native security. The team was able to uncover for the first time a Python-based ransomware attack targeting Jupyter Notebook, an open-source software popular with data scientists.
[German]Security researchers from Check Point Research have also encountered vulnerabilities in the Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC). The vulnerabilities endanger the privacy of Android users because attackers can access user data. This affects devices with both MediaTek and Qualcomm CPUs.
[German]Today is a memorable day for some (older) computer enthusiasts. Because the 8-bit computer Sinclair ZX Spectrum was released exactly 40 years ago, and made some fellow citizens become "computer freaks". The following is a brief outline of the year 1982 and the years that followed.
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[German]Microsoft has released quarterly Exchange Cumulative Updates (CU) for April 20, 2022. The cumulative updates (CUs), which will now only be offered semi-annually, are available for Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019. These CUs include fixes for customer-reported issues, all previously released security updates, and a new security feature.
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Microsoft has released the optional cumulative (preview) update KB5012636 for Windows 10 V1909 (LTSC) and Server 2019 on April 21, 2022 (C-Week). This is intended to fix various bugs in Windows 10 and in the corresponding Windows Server versions. Below I provide an overview regarding this update for Windows 10 and the Windows Server versions in question.
[German]The next hurdle to make the USB-C standard as mandatory for charging cables for mobile devices in Europe has cleared – and the standard can probably come soon (Summer 2024). The Committee for the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) of the EU Parliament has approved the corresponding draft resolution. Now it only needs the approval of the EU parliament and the member states so that the whole thing will then be considered mandatory (possibly from the summer). Apple could then emerge as the biggest loser from this story.
[German]Today a short collective post about remote support (Quick Assist) in Windows and Intune. As of April 21, 2022, a certificate for Quick Assist in Intune expired and there were certificate warnings. This should have been fixed by now. In addition, there appear to be issues with remote support in Windows when TLS 1.x is turned off. Here's a quick overview.
[German]The US Cyber in Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has recently added three more entries to its list of actively exploited vulnerabilities. Among them is the vulnerability CVE-2022-22718 in the Windows print spooler, which affects virtually all Windows versions that are still in support. Microsoft released a security update in February 2022 to close the Elevation of Privilege vulnerability in the Windows Print Spooler.
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