[German]On October 5, 2021(first Tuesday of the month, Office Patchday) Microsoft releases non-security updates for still supported versions of Microsoft Office. This month, however, there is only one update for Microsoft Office 2016. Here is a brief overview.
[German]On 4.10.2021, there was a six-hour service outage at Facebook at around 17:30, which also included the Instagram and WhatsApp services. I had reported in the post Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp worldwide down. Now Facebook has provided a more comprehensive explanation of the reasons for the outage. Details may be read within the article More details about the October 4 outage from Facebook.
[German]The complete website of the interactive live streaming service Twitch has probably become public in a data leak. An anonymous hacker posted a torrent link on the 4chan platform on Wednesday (6/10/2021). The torrent package, with a size of 125 GB, is said to contain the complete data (source code, payments to streamers, etc.) of the platform.
[German]A search for names, addresses, or phone numbers using the Google search engine can lead to Americans (and possibly others) becoming the focus of law enforcement. The U.S. government has forced Google to secretly identify any person who searched for the name, address and phone number of a sexual assault victim. Again, a reason to use a search engine that does anonymization for searches.
[German]Mozilla developers have released version 93.0.0 and 78.15.0esr/91.1.2esr of the Firefox browser on October 5, 2021. It is the version 93.0.0 a new development branch of the browser, and the ESR 78.15.0 respectively the last security update in this development branch, which should eliminate vulnerabilities, but also fix bugs.
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[German]Throwing a smartphone onto a bed or a couch isn't normally a problem, nothing bad can actually happen. However, you should not do that if you own a Samsung foldable smartphone (Z Flip 3), since you might lose the warranty in case of damage. The background is that Samsung not only installs a humidity indicator, but also records sudden movement of the device via a sensor.
[German]This night (October 5, 2021), Microsoft released its Windows 11 as scheduled, so that interested users can install and test this operating system on suitable hardware. Due to the hardware requirements, only a manageable number of systems will be fully compatible with Windows 11. I'll summarize the current status in the following.
[German]Currently (2021/10/04, 19:50 MEZ) there is a worldwide major disruption at Facebook, which also includes the services Instagram and WhatsApp. The disruption has already been going on for a few hours, and the US giant's users are in an uproar – and the consequences may not be really noticeable until 9 months from now.
[German]In a concerted action by law enforcement agencies coordinated by Europol and Interpol, two suspected operators in the field of ransomware crime were arrested in Ukraine as early as September 28, 2021. The suspects are accused of infecting companies in Europe and the United States with ransomware and then extorting ransom money.
[German]IBM warns that QRadar Azure warn is vulnerable to remote attacks via the OMIGOD vulnerability CVE-2021-38647. Remote attackers could execute arbitrary code. This would have a similar impact to the supply chain attack on Kaseya VSA, a remote management and monitoring (RMM) software.
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