Dell BIOS update causes (boot) issues with notebooks and desktop systems (12.2021)

Posted on 2021-12-22 by guenni

Stop - Pixabay[German]Any of you with more recent Dell notebooks or desktop systems? Then you might want to be a little cautious with recent BIOS (UEFI) updates and read this post beforehand. There is evidence that a BIOS update from Dell can prevent notebooks or desktop systems from booting. Affected are Dell Latitude notebooks (5320 and 5520), as well as the Dell Inspiron 5680 and the Alienware Aurora R8 desktops. Here is a rough overview of what is known.

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Backdoor CVE-2021-40859 in Auerswald PBX systems (e.g. COMpact 5500R 7.8A & 8.0B) fixed

Posted on 2021-12-21 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Auerswald s a German manufacturer of telephone systems for corporate use. Security researchers have discovered backdoors in the firmware of Auerswald telephone systems (e.g. COMpact 5500R) that could be used to reset the administrator password. This was disclosed on 20.12.2021. Here is some information about it. The backdoor has been removed in firmware versions 7.8A & 8.0B.

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Ransomware attacks on CompuGroup Medical SE & Co. KGaA

Posted on 2021-12-21 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]CompuGroup Medical SE & Co. KGaA, a major medical services provider, has been the victim of a cyberattack. The Koblenz-based medical services provider admitted as much on Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. The internal IT systems are likely affected, which should affect some doctors, pharmacies, labs and clinics if they want to contact the company. Here is some information on what is known.

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Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-3922, CVE-2021-3969 in ImController of Lenovo Notebooks

Posted on 2021-12-21 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Lenovo notebooks and devices that use the ImController service are vulnerable to a privilege escation vulnerability. This can allow attackers to execute commands with administrator privileges on the devices. However, there is an update to address both vulnerabilities.

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Belgian Ministry of Defense affected by Log4j?

Posted on 2021-12-21 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]The vulnerability CVE-2021-44228 in the JAVA library log4j is drawing wider circles. The Belgian Ministry of Defense may have shut down its networks after a serious cyberattack, admitting as much in the night from Sunday to Monday. Reports suggests that it was related to the log4j vulnerability CVE-2021-44228. Continue reading →

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

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Thunderbird 91.4.1

Posted on 2021-12-20 by guenni

[German]The developers of the Thunderbird email client have released Thunderbird 91.4.1 on December 17, 2021. This is a maintenance update for the 91 development branch, which makes numerous fixes. Here is a brief overview.

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Firefox 95.0.2 released

Posted on 2021-12-20 by guenni

Mozilla[German]On December 19, 2021, Mozilla developers released version 95.0.2 as a maintenance update of the Firefox browser to correct a bug with AMD CPUs. According to the release notes, there is only one bug fix: Fixes frequent crashes for users with C/E/Z-Series AMD "Bobcat" CPUs on Windows 7, 8 and 8.1. The new Firefox can be updated via update in the browser or downloaded from this website for various platforms (the variant has to be selected via the displayed list boxes).

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Data protection incident at erotic store Amorelie (Dec. 2021)

Posted on 2021-12-20 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]The erotic mail order company Amorelie has just informed its customers about a data protection incident. Customer data from orders for seven years had been accessible to unauthorized third parties through a vulnerability frome March up to November 2021. There had allegedly been no misuse. Here is some information on the state of affairs.

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CPUID Enumerator and Decoder: Virus-free, but flagged by Virustotal

Posted on 2021-12-20 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Within this blog post I will outline the risk, users are facing by trusting anti virus scanners. Security expert Stefan Kanthak outlined a case to me, that shows, that you can't trust most virus scanners. Sometimes the don't detect malicious software – but in many cases they are reporting false positives. Stefan Kanthak demonstrated this to me with his tool CPUID Enumerator and Decoder.

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Dell Windows drivers still vulnerable to kernel attacks

Posted on 2021-12-19 by guenni

Windows[German]Users of Dell systems are still at risk of having their Windows systems compromised via Dell drivers through kernel attacks. The problem was supposed to be fixed by updates as early as May 2021. However, security researchers from Rapid7 are now sounding the alarm that these security updates have not closed all vulnerabilities. However, security researchers from Rapid7 are now sounding the alarm that these security updates have not closed all vulnerabilities. True, administrator privileges are required to install the drivers. But it looks like this approach is being used by cyber gangs for attacks. However, there are countermeasures in the business environment.

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