[German]Mozilla developers have released version 95.0.0 with some new features and 91.4.0esr of the Firefox browser with a fix rated High as of December 7, 2021. Thanks to the blog readers for pointing out the updates.
[German]A brief question for the readers of this blog who are already running Windows 11 on NVMe SSDs. What about the performance in this constellation? There are reports from users in forums who complain about slow accesses with NVMe SSDs under Windows 11. Some report more than 50% performance loss compared to Windows 10.
[German]This is probably a solid scandal – there is an app Life360 – Familie suchen, which is also available on Android in Germany has millions of users. The app allows family members to be tracked via their smartphone. Now it comes out that the creators of the app have sold the location data of their users to data traders (data brokers) from the industry since 2016.
[German]There was a successful cyber attack on SPAR stores in Yorkshire, England. Some of the stores had to close because payment systems could no longer be used and card payments were no longer possible. Here is some information about what I know so far.
[German]I became aware of this security case via a Facebook post. It's about the Android app Barcod Scanner. It seems the app have been infected with an adware Trojan during one of the latest updates. Smartphones of affected users, opens suddenly random web pages in the browser app on their phones. Here is a brief summary of the case.
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[German]Users who have upgraded to Windows 11 and use Microsoft Outlook may run into the problem that Outlook search no longer works. Now Microsoft has released a workaround for Outlook 2016 that brings search results back again.
[German]Since Apple released iOS 15.1 for suitable devices (see iOS 15.1 released), users have complained that the devices have become unusable for certain apps. The Calendar app in particular seems to be extremely slow to respond, as users also discuss in the Apple forums.
[German]Security vendor Proof Point observed three APT actors from India, Russia and China using a novel RTF template injection technique for phishing attachments to retrieve malicious content from a remote URL in 2021. The security researcher fear, that this technique will be misused soon by cyber criminals.
[German]Users who try to download the Google Chrome browser in the pre-installed Edge browser under Windows 11 sees problably a popup in the browser window. This popup tries to fool people into thinking that Microsoft Edge uses the same technology as Google Chrome, but that you're also getting "the trust of Microsoft" on top. It's an A/B test for some US users, but it's again a super fail.
[German]The ACROS Security team around founder Mitja Kolsek has now developed and released the third micro-patch within two weeks for a vulnerability discovered by security researchers. The current micro-patch is about a 0-day InstallerTakeOver Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerability in Windows for which there is no CVE yet. Mitja Kolsek informed me about the issue in a private message on Twitter last night. Here is some information about it.
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