USB-C as a uniform standard for charging cable is coming in Europe

Posted on 2022-04-22 by guenni

[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.

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Quick Assist: Intune certificate expired and TLS problems in Windows

Posted on 2022-04-22 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[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.

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CISA Warning: Windows Print-Spooler Vulnerability CVE-2022-22718 actively exploited

Posted on 2022-04-21 by guenni

Windows[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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Microsofts Defender flags Google Chrome Updates falsely as malicious (April 20, 2022)

Posted on 2022-04-21 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Microsoft's Defender for Endpoint (an enterprise security platform, see Got lost in Defender? There is something like a Defender Cheat Sheet available) seems to have run a bit amok once again. Administrators reported that since April 20, 2022, Defender has suddenly deemed updates for the Google Chrome browser as malicious and quarantined them.

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VirtualBox 6.1.34 released

Posted on 2022-04-21 by guenni

Virtualbox[German]Oracle's developers have released Virtualbox version 6.1.34 as of April 19, 2022 (while the changelog claims the release was on March 22, 2022, that's probably a typo). It is a maintenance update that is supposed to fix bugs of previous versions.

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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VLC 3.0.17.4 released

Posted on 2022-04-20 by guenni

Sicherheit[German]Due to a bug in the UPNP function, the developers of the VLC Player had to add version 3.0.17.4. There is no changelog yet. The update is not yet offered in the VLC player. But the download is already available on the FTP server. (via)

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Thunderbird Version 91.8.1

Posted on 2022-04-20 by guenni

[German]The developers of the Thunderbird email client released Thunderbird 91.8.0 (see Firefox 99.0 and 91.8.0esr released) on April 5, 2022, and then released 91.8.1 as a bug fix update on April 18, 2022. These are maintenance updates for the 91 development branch that contain various fixes.

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Windows 11 Home: SMB1 will be disabled and removed in the future

Posted on 2022-04-20 by guenni

Windows[German]Microsoft has just announced that they are disabling support for the SMB1 protocol by default in the Windows 11 Home Insider builds. This is the final phase to finally put SMB1 support in Windows to bed and let it expire. The background is security considerations, and SMB2 as well as SMB3 are available. However, the problem will be that certain network connections are dependent on SMB1.

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Microsoft Security Update Revisions (April 19, 2022)

Posted on 2022-04-20 by guenni

Brief addendum from last week. Microsoft has released some Microsoft Security Update revisions for April 19, 2022, which are changes to the documentation of various security updates. Here is an uncommented overview.

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ESET finds 3 critical vulnerabilities in UEFI of Lenovo consumer notebooks

Posted on 2022-04-19 by guenni

[German]Users of Lenovo notebooks should react. Security vendor ESET has just announced that it has discovered three vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-3970, CVE-2021-3971, CVE-2021-3972) in the UEFI of Lenovo consumer notebooks that are rated as highly problematic from a security perspective. The exploit allows attackers to deploy and successfully execute UEFI malware such as LoJax or ESPecter on the affected devices.

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