[German]Brief information for the lovers of VB6 (Visual Basic 6). It looks like Microsoft will continue support for VB6 in Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022. This was announced by Microsoft in November 2021 – a blog reader recently asked me about it. This should allow VB6 applications to run on Windows for another 10 years.
[German]Since the release of Windows 11, users have been complaining about problems with color management and that the use of ICC color profiles does not work. Now Microsoft has officially confirmed the problem and is investigating the whole thing. Here is a brief overview of this issue.
[German]The manufacturer QNAP has released a firmware update for its QTS 5 shortly before Christmas. The update closes some vulnerabilities. A log4j vulnerability in QNAP software was also reported. Furthermore, the user community of QNAP NAS drives is currently probably suffering from cyber attacks.
[German]Did you also get such an Alexa part from Amazon as a Christmas present? I avoid this stuff like the devil avoids holy water for data protection reasons – and I don't see the point yet. But devices with the Alexa voice assistant have been bought en masse every year since 2015. It's a popular gift when you can't think of anything else. Internal documents from Amazon show that 25 percent of users no longer use the device after a week.
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[German]Today, another security topic that comes to my attention quite often on Facebook. One of the people in my Facebook friends list tells me a few days ago, that I've been tagged and that I can find out who visited my profile. Not that I would be particularly interested in this. But behind this approach is a nasty phishing scam.
Just realized that it must be Christmas again – at least all the doors in the advent calendar are all open. Everywhere people are preparing for the holidays …
[German]As of Sunday, December 19, 2021, there appears to have been a successful cyberattack using ransomware against French IT services provider Inetum. The attack affected the group's IT functions in France, but not in other countries, the company wrote. With 2 billion euros in annual revenue and 19,000 employees (2018), that's already one of the big ones in the industry.
[German]The security team of ACROS Security around founder Mitja Kolsek has just developed a micro patch to close a remote code execution vulnerability in the ms-officecmd handler of Windows and released it for customers with a 0patch PRO or Enterprise license. There is no CVE for this vulnerability yet. Here is some information about it.
[German]Microsoft has updated the so-called Security Baseline (a tool for security administrators in companies) for Windows 10 version 21H2 and released it generally. In the current version, not only the latest Windows 10 version is supported. There are also special guidelines for printing or protection against ransomware. Here is a brief overview.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
