[German]The US subsidiary of the Allianz Group, Allianz Life, has confirmed a hack with data leakage. Readers had already pointed this out in the past few days. The majority of the 1.6 million US customers have had their personal data affected.
[German]Brief information on a topic that may no longer have much relevance. Google is shutting down its link shortener service goo.gl on August 25, 2025. Anyone who has worked with the link shortener will see their links break from this date and an error 404 will be returned. This end was actually foreseeable, as new short links could no longer be set up since 2019. After all, it took over six years for Google to pull the plug.
[German]The Austrian based European data protection organization noyb filed GDPR complaints against AliExpress, TikTok and WeChat on 17 July 2025. All three tech companies have failed to comply with requests for information under Article 15 GDPR.
[German]Discussions about a bad working culture at Microsoft has begun since the layoffs in 2025 has begun. CEO Satya Nadella has now send a memo to the Microsoft employees and talks of an "enigma moment" for progress. The elephant in the room is Microsoft's transformation into an AI provider, which is leading to upheaval.
[German]Microsoft has inflated a huge balloon with regard to European cloud offerings. Data centers in Europe, a "European Microsoft cloud" for digital sovereignty. And then a Microsoft manager had to admit under oath that this does not protect against access by the US authorities.
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[German]Something is happening: Microsoft has removed a showstopper on July 24, 2025, which had already been set on September 30, 2024, long before the launch of Windows 11 24H2. It concerns Easy Anti-Cheat, a technology used in games, which previously prevented an upgrade to Windows 11 24H2.
[German]The extent of the observed wave of attacks on 0-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint is slowly becoming apparent. Microsoft has now released emergency updates for SharePoint Server. However, it is now known that over 400 organizations have probably been compromised. And it is clear that attackers are also infecting SharePoint servers with ransomware. I will briefly summarize the new information in a follow-up article.
[German]In June 2025, it became known that there are vulnerabilities in the firmware of almost 700 printer models from Brother and other manufacturers. There are now reports that attackers are using these vulnerabilities to attack printers that have not been updated via firmware updates.
[German]A short addendum that may be of interest to administrators of Microsoft Exchange Server 2016/2019 and Microsoft Skye for Business 2015 and 2019. These software versions were actually due to be removed from support on October 14, 2025. Anyone who has not yet switched to newer versions will receive security updates for a further six months via a fee-based ESU program.
[German]OpenAI released its "ChatGPT agent" on July 17, 2025. In a longer post on X, OpenAI boss Sam Altman takes this up. At the same time, Altman warns of potentially major risks when using this ChatGPT agent. Everything is still experimental.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
