[German]Activists of the hacker collective Anonymous have announced actions against Russian companies after the Russian army invaded Ukraine. According to media reports and an article on Anonleaks, members of Anonymous successfully hacked the German branch of the Russian energy giant Rosneft. In the hack, 20 terabytes of data were siphoned off before the hack was discovered and further access was prevented.
[German]Do any of you have TP-Link routers in use? There is disturbing information of the "hands off these devices" type. This is because there are user reports that TP-Link router firmware is sharing network traffic with third-party vendors (specifically AVIRA via HomeShield). Blog reader Marcel alerted me to the issue on Facebook (thanks for that) and I came across several reports on the subject. The background is cloud integrations with certain AVIRA features implemented as part of a partnership between TP-Link and AVIRA. The whole thing could mean trouble for TP-Link – and can put companies or people in the home office in a lot of trouble – there is, after all, a GDPR violation.
[German]The number of publicly disclosed vulnerabilities affecting medical devices, industrial control systems (ICS) or the extended Internet of Things (XIoT) is continuously increasing. In the last four years, the number of disclosed vulnerabilities in industrial control systems (ICS) has more than doubled (up 110%). In the second half of 2021 alone, the number increased by 25 percent compared to the previous six months. This is according to a corresponding report by security provider Claroty.
[German]In Windows 10 version (20H2 – 21H2) as well as in Windows 11 there is a problem when resetting the operating system if all user files are to be deleted (wipe) at the same time. The problem was already noticed some time ago and has been confirmed in the meantime. The March 2022 updates were supposed to correct the problem, but they don't seem to work reliably. Anyway, the wipe problem is not off the table. Here is some information about the issue.zuverlässig zu arbeiten. Jedenfalls ist das Wipe-Problem nicht vom Tisch. Hier ein paar Informationen zum Thema.
[German]The game manufacturer Ubisoft has become the victim of a cyber attack in which data was leaked. The manufacturer has since confirmed this cyber attack. Now the cyber gang Lapsus$ has claimed responsibility for the cyber attack. After the hack of Nvidia and Samsung, it is now the third case in which the group has hacked a major company.
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[German]There are strange occurrences since February 24, 2022 in the signals of the Global Positioning System (GPS). The GPS signal has been disturbed in the Baltic Sea region and the Finnish government is now warning of incorrect GPS data. Several flights had to be recalled already. Here is some information, what is known to me.
[German]As of March 1, 2022, Microsoft has released regular updates for the MSI installation versions of Microsoft Office 2013 and 2016. After installing these updates, users complain that accessing Access databases from applications no longer works. The applications hang or throw errors.
[German]Microsoft's Intune team has confirmed a know issue with Intune. Customers with Android devices lose access to Intune-managed resources after upgrading to Android 12.
[German]With the March 8, 2022 security updates for Windows, Microsoft has fixed a number of vulnerabilities. Among them is a Remote Code Execution vulnerability (REC) in Windows SMBv3 Client/Server that is rated as important. CERT-EU issued a recent advisory warning about this SMBv3 vulnerability, CVE-2022-24508, and recommends promptly installing updates or applying measures to prevent exploitation of the vulnerability. Fortunately, exploitation requires authentication by the attacker and exploitation in the wild is also not known so far.
WordPress 5.9.2 was released on March 10, 2022. It is a security update that fixes three vulnerabilities and one bug. The bug is a fix in the live preview of themes. I didn't find anything about the security fixes – but all versions from WordPress 3.7 onwards have been updated accordingly.
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