[German]It's been going around Twitter for a few hours now: the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) email servers were hacked. The attackers then sent out hundreds of thousands of urgent warnings about alleged cyberattacks to numerous recipients. Administrators struggled to deal with these emails, which carried the FBI as the sender but were easily identifiable as SPAM. Here's a brief overview.
[German]In 2016, the hotel reservation platform booking.com, which is also quite popular in Germany, suffered a data protection breach caused by a hack, for which the platform was not responsible (access data of hotel employees was stolen). Because the incident was reported too late, the Dutch data protection regulator imposed a fine. Now it turns out that the hack at Booking.com was probably carried out by an employee of the US Secret Service. They wanted to get the booking data of hotels in Arab countries.
[German]I'm going to post a topic here on the blog that affects administrators of Windows systems in companies. How do you actually make sure that the central ADMX store for Windows group policies always stays up to date and can be restored in case of corruption? Without up-to-date ADMX files in the store, group policies can't really be used efficiently.
[German]The Azure PowerShell team plans to release a major upgrade to the Azure (Az) PowerShell module Dec. 7, 2021. This will include support for Microsoft Graph.
[German]Let's take a closer look at Microsoft and the promise to become sustainabile. I just saw an announcement for a Microsoft Sustainability Kick-Off event. Microsoft say it's working to protect the environment. On the other hand, there are Surface models that score 1 or 2 out of 10 possible points in the repairability index. In addition, there is the matter of the just released Windows 11. 50 percent of the current devices do not meet the minimum requirements for Windows 11. In January 2023, all devices with Windows 7 ESU and Windows 8.1 will be removed from support – and support for Windows 10 will end in October 2025. Millions of tons of electronic waste will be generated worldwide by PCs that are not suitable for the next Windows generation. Is that sustainability in practice?
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[German]The medium-sized an German based company Kisters AG, which develops software solutions for sustainable resource management and now has numerous branches worldwide, has fallen victim to a ransomware attack. Following the attack on November 10/11, 2021, all systems are now down and the website is not accessible. Here is a brief overview of what is known. Furthermore, the Bucher community vehicle division (Switzerland) are victims of a ransomware attack.
[German]There is an incompletely patched Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability (CVE-2021-34484) in the Windows User Profile Service. Although there has been an update for all Windows versions since August 2021, it does not fully patch the vulnerability. ACROS Security has therefore developed a free 0patch solution to mitigate this vulnerability.
[German]Security researcher, and the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), and CERT-Bund have issued a warning. These organizations are currently (Nov. 2021) observing a significant increase in e-mail attacks. The two organizations assume that these e-mails are sent from compromised Exchange servers. Malware (Qakbot etc.) is being sent with the emails.
[German]Security researchers from JFrog and Claroty Team82 have found 14 vulnerabilities in the popular BusyBox tool. All vulnerabilities were confidentially reported to the developer of BusyBox and fixed in version 1.34.0, which was released on August 19. The vulnerabilities could have been exploited for at least a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. However, in rarer cases, information leaks and possibly remote code execution would have been possible.
[German]As if there had never been antitrust proceedings against Microsoft in USA and European Union, Redmond is currently massively stretching the limits in Windows 11 when it comes to thwarting the browser competitor. Microsoft Windows 11, as of build 22494, appears to prevent links in some protocols associated of the Microsoft Edge browser from being managed by third-party applications. It's a change that one developer is calling anti-competitive. It's about time the EU's competition commissioner shall be active. Here's a quick look at the facts of the case.
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