Microsoft plans to acquire Activision Blizzard

Posted on 2022-01-19 by guenni

Microsoft has announced its plans to acquire Activision Blizzard. Activision Blizzard is one of the leading companies in game development. In addition, Activision Blizzard is a publisher of interactive entertainment content. The planned acquisition includes franchises of the studios of Activision, Blizzard and King such as "Warcraft", "Diablo", "Overwatch", "Call of Duty" and "Candy Crush". That's what Microsoft wants to cost itself the small sum of about 60 billion euros.

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Europol took down VPNLab.net, which has been used by Cybercriminals

Posted on 2022-01-18 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]In a coordinated action, Europol has seized and shut down servers through which cybercriminals provided and used VPN services. The VPN services were used, for example, in ransomware infections. The disruption of the infrastructure is intended to deprive cybercriminals of the opportunity to use such VPN services.

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Windows 10/Server: Out-of-band Updates fixes Jan. 2022 patch day issues (Jan. 17, 2022)

Posted on 2022-01-18 by guenni

Windows[German]Microsoft has also released a slew of security updates for Windows 10 and its server counterparts on January 17, 2022. These are supposed to fix the DC boot loop problem, as well as the IPSec VPN connection problem, which are caused with the security updates from Jan. 11, 2022. Here is an overview of these special updates for Windows 10 and the corresponding Windows Server versions (1607 etc).

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Windows Out-of-band Updates fixes Jan. 2022 patch day issues (Jan. 17, 2022)

Posted on 2022-01-18 by guenni

Windows[German]Microsoft has released a slew of security updates for Windows 7 through Windows 11 and Windows Server 2008 R2 through Windows Server 2022, effective January 17, 2022. These are intended to fix the various issues (DC boot loop, IPSec VPN connection issue, ReFS support, Hyper-V boot issue) in the clients and server versions caused by the Jan. 11, 2022 security updates. Here is an overview of these special updates for Windows 7 through 11 and the corresponding Windows Server versions.

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Telegram has been down (Jan. 17, 2022)

Posted on 2022-01-18 by guenni

The messenger service Telegram has been down between 3:00 p.m. and around 6:00 p.m. MEZ. The outage seems to have affected users worldwide.

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

[Sponsored Post]In the rapidly evolving IT world, choosing the right remote desktop software is critical for organizations that value security, ease of use and reliability. One provider of secure remote access that has been on the market since 2001 is ISL Online, which presents some considerations for choosing such software below. More ...

Exchange Online down? (January 17, 2022)

Posted on 2022-01-17 by guenni

Exchange Online has been down on January 17, 2022, where users have problems accessing their Exchange Online mailboxes and calendars. It seems to affect mainly the regions Australia, North America and Japan. But I also got reports from Europe and other Asian regions.

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Microsoft Microsoft Januar 2022 Patchday Revisions (2022/01/14)

Posted on 2022-01-17 by guenni

Update[German]As of January 11, 2022, Microsoft has released a number of security updates for Windows and Office that are supposed to eliminate vulnerabilities. However, some of these updates caused problems, disrupting functions in Windows. On January 14, 2022, Microsoft released a list of update revisions that I would like to briefly review in the wake of the January 2022 Patchday.

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REvil ransomware Group took down in Russia by FSB

Posted on 2022-01-16 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has reportedly raided homes and arrested suspected members of the REvil ransomware group at the request of U.S. law enforcement. In the process, 500,000 euros and 600,000 US dollars in cash were seized. The whole thing must have happened yesterday, Friday, January 14, 2022 in various Russian cities.

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Edge 97 automatically opens during login

Posted on 2022-01-15 by guenni

Edge[German]I'm once again addressing an issue with Microsoft's Edge browser into the blog. A reader informed me that in his environment (university), Edge 97 opens automatically upon login – an annoying endeavor. Here is some information on what I found out.

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Firefox 96.0.1 released

Posted on 2022-01-15 by guenni

Mozilla[German]On January 14, 2022, Mozilla developers released version 96.0.1 as a maintenance update of the Firefox browser to correct a bug. According to the release notes, there is a bug fix: Addresses proxy rule exceptions not working on Windows systems when "Use system proxy settings" is set. There are also improvements to make content length header parsing more robust. The new Firefox can be updated in the browser or downloaded from this website for various platforms (the variant is to be selected via the displayed list boxes).

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