Hackers Targets Social Media Accounts

Posted on 2021-12-28 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Users of social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, etc. are the focus of hackers and Internet criminals. Anyone who can compromise such an account has a wide range of options for misuse. Whoever can access the data of a social media account often gets hold of very personal data. Security provider Check Point Technologies GmbH points out that social media users are the focus of hackers, especially during the festive season.

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Visual Basic 6 Support für Windows, the next decade

Posted on 2021-12-27 by guenni

[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.

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Windows 11: Microsoft confirms issues with false colors displayed

Posted on 2021-12-26 by guenni

Windows[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.

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QNAP firmware update version QTS 5.0.0.1891 build 20211221 and log4j vulnerability

Posted on 2021-12-26 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[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.

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Amazon Alexa: 25% of buyers use it only one week …

Posted on 2021-12-26 by guenni

Stop - Pixabay[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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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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Merry Christmas …

Posted on 2021-12-25 by guenni

to all my blog readers.

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Scam: "See who visits your Facebook profile"

Posted on 2021-12-25 by guenni

[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.

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It seems it's Christmas …

Posted on 2021-12-24 by guenni

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 …

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Ransomware attack on French IT service provider Inetum

Posted on 2021-12-24 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[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.

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0patch fixes ms-officecmd RCE vulnerability in Windows

Posted on 2021-12-24 by guenni

Windows[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.

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