Facebook: Stock went down, and now exit threat in Europe? (Feb. 2022)

Posted on 2022-02-07 by guenni

[German]Dark clouds over the horizon for Facebook and its users? Or joyful news for Internet users? Since Facebook (lately they call themselves Meta, but I'm still using Facebook here in the article) presented the last quarterly report, the stock has been in a nosedive, because they are hardly gaining any new users. And now there's also the threat that they'll pull out of Europe if they're not allowed to continue transferring data from Europe to the US and analyzing it for micro-targeting.

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Windows 11 may bricks MSSQL server instances; no longer executable

Posted on 2022-02-07 by guenni

Windows[German]Windows 11 seems to be becoming a challenge for many people because of problems with drivers and software at all corners. A blog reader alerted me to a particular problem on a customer's machine. There, an MSSQL Server instance can no longer be started because the sector size has changed to an unsupported value. It's an issue related to Windows 11 and Samsung SSD 980.

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Multi-cloud security and compliance – challenges and best practices

Posted on 2022-02-06 by guenni

[German]Companies are heading to the cloud. This often involves multiple cloud providers. Multi-cloud strategies further complicate cloud security and compliance, as controls and policies must be applied consistently across multiple cloud environments. IT security firm Orca Security looked at cloud security challenges and best practices.

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Cisco drama: Critical vulnerabilities in small business routers (Feb. 2022)

Posted on 2022-02-06 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Customers of Network supplier Cisco and its customers are currently at risk. Cisco has published a security notice regarding its small business routers (SMB) on February 2, 2022, which is quite something. There are several security holes in their firmware, three of which CVEs have been classified as critical with an index of 10/10. It probably affects Cisco small business routers of the RV160, RV260, RV340 and RV345 series.

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COBOL market: Three times larger than expected

Posted on 2022-02-06 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Good job persepectives for experts who still learned COBOL as a programming language in the 1960s and 1970s. In a recent survey, Micro Focus, a provider of enterprise software, examined the market opportunities for application modernization of COBOL code. The surprising result: the market for COBOL appears to be three times larger than previously expected. And it is not foreseeable that COBOL applications will be replaced in a hurry.

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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 ...

Microsoft disables MSIX ms-appinstaller protocol handler in Windows (Feb. 2022)

Posted on 2022-02-05 by guenni

Windows[German]After ransomware like Emotet or BazarLoader abused the MSIX ms-appinstaller protocol handler, Microsoft has now reacted again. The entire MSIX ms-appinstaller protocol handler has been disabled in Windows for the time being – more or less as protection against Emotet, BazarLoader or similar malware. This is now the second measure after being patched in December 2021.

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Edge 98.0.1108.43

Posted on 2022-02-04 by guenni

Edge[German]Microsoft has updated the Chromium Edge browser to version 98.0.1108.43 as of February 3, 2022 (thanks to the reader for pointing this out). It is a new development branch that keeps up with Google Chrome (see Chrome 98.0.4758.8x released, 27 vulnerabilities fixed), but also fixes vulnerabilities. Microsoft has introduced new features and new group policies with Edge 98.

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Windows Server 2019: Is Update KB5010791 causing a Boot Loop?

Posted on 2022-02-04 by guenni

Update[German]Question for the administrators of Windows Server 2019 systems: What are your experiences regarding the January 11, 2022 updates and boot loops. On Domain Controllers, the boot loops are well known, but Microsoft has released out-of-band updates with a fix. But I have now received reports that a Windows Server 2019 running stably so far with update KB5009557 had forced the servers into a boot loop with update KB5010791. Continue reading →

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Windows: ESET virus scanners have a LPE vulnerability

Posted on 2022-02-04 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Slovakian antivirus vendor ESET has issued a warning for users of its Windows products. Certain antivirus products have a Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerability CVE-2021-37852 in older versions. This allows a local attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges from a default account. However, ESET now provides security updates to close the vulnerability.

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Cyberattack on Oiltanking: Black Cat ransomware group responsibe, also for Colonial Pipeline Hack

Posted on 2022-02-03 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]An addendum to the cyberattack of Saturday, January 29, 2022 on Oiltanking, a company belonging to the Hamburg-based Marquard & Bahls group, and the IT of Mabanaft, an oil trader belonging to the same group. The crippled parts of the critical infrastructure (CRITIS), because the loading systems of Oiltanking no longer work, have their cause in an infection with the Black Cat ransomware. And that's where it gets interesting, because it seems to be the same cybercriminals who were responsible for the ransomware attack on Colonia Pipeline in the US in 2021

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