[German]Microsoft has released the feature update for Windows 10 November 2021 Update (21H2) on 11/16/2021. In addition, the ISO installation media and an installation image are also available in the Media Creation Tool. It is only a minor feature update, which brings only a few new features. Here is a brief overview.
[German]Windows 11 users will have to be patient. Microsoft has confirmed compatibility issues with Intel Smart Sound Technology drivers as known on its Windows 11 status page. However, there are suggestions on how to mitigate the problem until updated drivers are made available. Here are some notes on the subject.
[German]Users with AMD graphics cards and Windows 10 should look into the issue of updating AMD graphics drivers. The manufacturer has admitted that its Windows 10 graphics drivers have numerous vulnerabilities. Some vulnerabilities (e.g. in the graphics driver) are classified with security score high.
[German]Security researchers from ETH Zürich has developed a new Rowhammer technique – using fuzzing – to bypass DDR4 memory protections and flip memory cells. That technique, called Blacksmith, allows an unprivileged process to change or corrupt data stored in RAM cells. This new technique also allows to bypass DDR4 memory protections methods developed so far.
[German]The Emotet malware (Trojan and ransomware) was quite successful and infected numerous systems. Law enforcers had managed to hack the botnet's infrastructure for distributing the malware. As of April 25, 2021, Emotet malware was automatically removed from Windows machines. However, it was not permanent, because the Emotet malware is back and building a new botnet.
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[German]The developers of the Thunderbird email client have released Thunderbird 91.3.1 on November 15, 2021. This is a maintenance and security update for the 91 development branch, which makes minor fixes. Here's a brief overview.
[German]Google has released an update to Google Chrome 96.0.4664.45for Windows, Mac and Linux (and Android) on November 15, 2021. It is a new development branch, but which also closes some vulnerabilities. Here's a brief overview.
[German]Today, November 15, 2021, marks the 50th anniversary of the Intel® 4004, the world's first commercially available microprocessor. Launched in November 1971, the 4004 paved the way for modern microprocessor computing – the "brains" that enable nearly every modern technology, from the cloud to the edge. Microprocessors enable the convergence of technological superpowers – ubiquitous computing, ubiquitous connectivity, cloud-to-edge infrastructure and artificial intelligence – and provide a pace of innovation that is faster today than ever before.
[German]Microsoft has released unscheduled, so-called out-of-band updates for various versions of Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 / 2019 as well as Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2008 R2 on November 14, 2021. These are intended to fix domain controller authentication errors that occurred with the November 2021 patchday updates. Here is some information about them.
[German]It's a trend that's been around for a while: fit IT professionals are hiring cyber mercenaries to carry out cyber attacks. Trend Micro has now exposed a cyber mercenary group called "Void Balaur." New research details the modus operandi of the contract hacking group. Motivated by espionage and financial interests, these contract hackers have targeted more than 3,500 companies and individuals since 2015. Among the victims are human rights activists, journalists, politicians, and technical executives in telecommunications companies.
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