[German]A few hours ago, I reported in the article Lapsus$ hacker group debunked? Teenager from Britain and Brazil suspected? that security researchers believe they have uncovered the mastermind of the LAPSUS$ gang. It has now been revealed that British police have arrested seven teenagers in connection with the LAPSUS$ gang's activities.
Already on 14 March 2022, the US computer scientist Stephen Wilhite passed away at the age of 74. Stephen Wilhite is considered the "inventor" of the GIF graphic file format, which he developed with his team in 1987.
[German]Microsoft has published information in a support document about problems with the preview of PDF files in Outlook. The PDF preview can fail because of a missing Adobe Reader or because of installed PowerToys, because the associated assignments have been overwritten.
[German]Mozilla's developers have released version 98.0.2 of the Firefox browser on 23 March 2022. It is a maintenance update that fixes some bugs.
Google is continuing its approach of kicking media content out of its Google Play Store. After music, films and TV series should now also be dropped from Google Play and made available under Google TV. This is the result of an announcement by Google.
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[German]The Lapsus$ group has been causing a furore with spectacular hacks since the beginning of 2022. Nvidia, Samsung, Microsoft, Okta are names of companies that come up in this context as victims. Security researchers believe they have unmasked members of these groups. Mastermind is said to be a 16-year-old from Oxford, UK. But a teenager from Brazil is also suspected to be part of the gang.
[German]Anyone running a 3CX system (telephone system) under Windows in a version below v18 Update 3 (Build 450) should react. The manufacturer has released a security update for this product in the form of v18 Update 3 (Build 450).
SoftMaker has released an update in the form of revision 1044 for its Office 2021 (for Windows, Mac and Linux). The Windows MSI setup now allows the selection of a user-defined destination folder for programs again. In addition, a bug was fixed that on some systems (Mac, Linux) pages in landscape format were only printed as portrait format. With this revision, an unavailable printer no longer delays the programme start under Windows. And if you want to write in a protected text, you get a hint in the status bar. The revision is available on this download page. Thanks to Georg R. for the hint.
[German]HP warns in two security advisories about remote code execution (RCE) and information disclosure vulnerabilities in hundreds of its printer models. Attackers could exploit the vulnerability to inject malicious code into systems. However, the manufacturer has provided firmware updates to mitigate this vulnerabilites.
[German]Microsoft has released optional cumulative (preview) updates for 22 March 2022 (D-Week). These are intended to correct various bugs in Windows 10, Windows 11 and in the corresponding Windows Server versions. Below I provide an overview of these updates for Windows 10 and the relevant Windows Server versions.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
