[German]There is an unpatched Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability (CVE-2021-24084) in Windows Mobile Device Management Service. The vulnerability has been known since 2020, but has not yet been patched by Microsoft. ACROS Security has therefore developed a free 0patch solution to mitigate this vulnerability.
[German]Stuttgart-based software company Nextcloud has filed a competition complaint against Microsoft with the German Federal Cartel Office. The accusation is that Microsoft has a dominant market position and is exploiting it. It is about the integration of OneDrive and Microsoft Teams in Windows 11. In the meantime, a competition complaint has also been submitted to the EU Commission by 30 EU organizations because of the same accusations.
[German]So now it's happened: Twitter has suspended my account because Adobe filed a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) complaint against a tweet of mine about bugs in the Adobe Acrobat DC installer. I has see this coming, since it hit a blog reader two days earlier and I alerted Adobe's social media teams about this false case via Twitter. Stupidity? Ignorance? Or simply keeping unwelcome coverage off the Internet?
[German]Security researchers from SentinelLabs have taken a closer look at Oracle's virtualization solution Virtualbox, which runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. They found three vulnerabilities in the virtualization tool. A vulnerability in Oracle VM VirtualBox allows program takeover and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by attackers. However, an update for Virtualbox is now available.
[German]Printers are widespread, even if the paperless office is the goal. Printers are networked, but rarely protected against attacks. People don't think the devices are really worth protecting. But in times of IoT and under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), this can lead to significant problems and nasty surprises. Researchers from Italy have tackled the issue and found three attack possibilities at once, labeled Printjack, that can lead to security problems and GDPR violations for printers.
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[German]Multiple vulnerabilities existed in the iDRAC8 and iDRAC9 management software used on Dell servers. The vulnerabilities allowed remote attackers to control the execution of processes and gain access to the underlying operating system via a stack buffer overflow flaw. Dell has since closed these vulnerabilities.
[German]Brief note to administrators who use Sophos XG as a firewall and security solution. On November 25, 2021, there was probably an update to the antivirus pattern that blocked at least one user from sending mail. The IT administrator in question pointed this out to me and I am posting it here on the blog for your information.
[German]One of the most popular "security" plugins for WordPress, Hide My WP, has just attracted negative attention due to a fat SQL injection vulnerability. Another bug allows an attacker to simply disable the plugin
[German]Another short addendum concerning security, which came to my attention the other day. Security researchers at HP Thread-Research have discovered a loader written in JavaScript that installs Remote Access Trojans (RATs) on Windows systems. The developer now appears to be working with eight malware groups.
[German]Short message for administrators who are already productive with Windows Server 2019 or even Windows Server 2022 and use Microsoft Defender for Endpoint as virus protection. Microsoft has admitted that after installing certain updates on these Windows Server versions, problems can occur and Defender no longer starts.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
