[German]Microsoft already informed me by email at the end of March 2022 that accounts for classic storage (Classic Storage Account) will soon no longer be supported. Users will no longer be able to access this storage after August 31, 2024 and will have to migrate to Azure Resource Manager. Here is the information from the email:
[German]Quick announcement for the weekend. Atlassian has fixed the Jira/Confluence outage that has existed since early April 2022 and the accompanying data loss for various customers. At the same time, the vendor revealed some details about the issue.
[English]Security provider Zscaler has produced a study on phishing attacks. The annual ThreatLabz report sees phishing-as-a-service as the reason for the rise in attacks across industries worldwide. Retail and wholesale was the hardest-hit industry, with phishing attacks up more than 400 percent in the last 12 months.
[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.
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[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.
[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.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
