[German]Microsoft has not only outlined the future roadmap in terms of Windows 365 Cloud PC integration for Windows 11 on April 5, 2022. They announced also, that new security features will be available in Windows 11. Microsoft Defender's "Smart Screen" supports a phishing protection. Furthermore, security features such as Personal Data Encryption and Smart App Control are available for corporate environments.
[German]Today a few more news around the topic of cyber security. Hackers have penetrated in March Russian TV systems and in April the Kremlin's TV system and seem to have hundreds of surveillance cameras under control. In addition, Microsoft has taken over seven domains that were misused by the Russian APT28 hacker group (Strontium, Fancy Bear) for attacks against facilities in Ukraine.
[German]Microsoft has updated the Chromium Edge browser to version Edge 100.0.1185.36 as of April 7, 2022. This is a maintenance update, for which Microsoft has published little on the release notes page. Microsoft doesn't list any details on that page either – the link to the fixed vulnerabilities is broken. Only in an email I received the information that the vulnerability CVE-2022-1232 has been fixed. The browser should be updated automatically, but can also be downloaded here.
[German]Just yesterday, in the blog post VMware patches Spring4Shell RCE vulnerability CVE-2022-22965, I warned about a vulnerability in certain VMware products. Now the manufacturer has followed up and warns about critical vulnerabilities in various VMware products. This affects Workspace ONE Access, VMware Identity Manager (vIDM), vRealize Lifecycle Manager, vRealize Automation and VMware Cloud Foundation products. Security updates to close the vulnerabilities are available.
[German]Some of the proud owners of a Samsung Galaxy S22 smartphone are facing a problem. The speakers of Samsung's flagship keep emitting unintelligible sounds, and people have to switch to a headset or earphones to understand audio output. The problem sometimes occurs after flights. The problem is bizarre, as "put the smartphone in the fridge for a few hours" or "open the SIM slot for a moment" are traded as workarounds. It seems that the problem of the speakers is caused by a lack of pressure compensation in the casing.
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[German]Security researchers from Symantec have tracked down a malware campaign (Cicada) that has been running for years. A Chinese state-affiliated hacker group is abusing legitimate applications such as VLC Player to inject malware into systems via DLL side-loading. The goal is to spy on the systems of victims working in government, legal, religious, and non-governmental (NGO) sectors on at least three continents.
[German]Atlassian's Jira platform, popular with many companies, has been down for what seems like hours. This is causing trouble for all customers who need access to the Atlassian Jira Bug System. There, information about security problems and other sensitive details are collected and processed. Currently, only a short peak was reported on allestoerungen.de as of today, April 7, 2022, since 8:23 am. However, if I catch it, the Jira servers have been down for over 24 hours.
[English]The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has just announced the dismantling of the Cyclops Blink botnet, which is attributed to the cyber group Sandworm. Sandworm is a name for a hacking group working for the Russian intelligence service (GRU). Here is the currently available information released by the DOJ.
[German]Virtualization specialist VMware has released security updates for various virtualization products. These are intended to close the remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability called Spring4Shell in these products. Cloud products that use virtualization are particularly at risk. Here is an overview of this issue.
[German]On April 5, 2022, Microsoft outlined the future roadmap for Windows 11. Thus, the Windows 365 Cloud PC will be integrated into Windows 11, i.e. it will not only be possible to run corresponding instances (as remote sessions) via app or in the browser, but it should be possible to boot the machine directly into Windows 365 Cloud PC at some point (i.e. use it as a thin client with direct login). Also, a new file explorer with tabs will be coming (has been in Insider testing for a while).
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