[German]Symbolic links allow to disable Defender as antivirus protection under Windows without disabling features like Tamper Protection. The approach simply lets Defender run into the woods during scanning, because the virus scanner is redirected to other folders. I came across some advice to this effect some time ago, which I'd like to discuss briefly.
[German]Riskante Technik Bluetooth: So haben Sicherheitsforscher bei verschiedenen Bluetooth-Chip-Sets, die in Geräten wie Notebooks, Lautsprechern oder IoT-Geräten verwendet werden, gleich 16 verschiedene Sicherheitslücken entdeckt. Die Schwachstellen firmieren unter dem Namen Braktooth. Und in Oslo ist es gelungen, durch umherfahren mit einem Fahrrad, Nutzer, die Bluetooth-Kopfhörer verwenden, über einen Bluetooth-Empfänger zu tracken. Hier eine Zusammenfassung der betreffenden Sicherheitsinformationen.
[German]Microsoft wants to make changes to the Azure API. This will impact applications and PowerShell scripts that rely on this API. The date for the API change is July 1, 2022, might want to keep that in mind if you are responsible for Azure.
[German]A vulnerability (CVE-2021-34746) was recently found in the TACACS+ authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) feature of Cisco's Enterprise NFV Infrastructure software. This is a solution designed to virtualize network services for easier management of virtual network functions (VNFs). The CVE-2021-34746 vulnerability has already been exploited in attacks.
[German] for people who want to install the Windows 10 Fall Update 2021 (version 21H2) fresh on a machine. Microsoft has made build 19044.1202 available for Windows Insiders in the Microsoft ISO Preview download portal. ISO-Preview Download-Portal bereitgestellt. The colleagues from deskmodder.de have published the direct download links on this page. Note, however, that it is still a preview of Windows 10 21H2.
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Are you still looking through Microsoft's licensing for Office 365 and Microsoft 365 and know which licenses you bought? Someone enlisted Glenton Davis, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft, to compare the licensing offered to Microsoft in these areas.
[German]Windows Insiders who are testing Windows 11 as a preview version got an unpleasant surprise a few hours ago. Neither the Start menu nor the taskbar worked. Microsoft hurried up with a "we are investigating this" message and there is a workaround. And in a beta, things can go wrong. But the background is interesting: A promo for Teams seems to have been the reason for the failure of these shell components.
[German]In times of the coronavirus pandemic, more people are working in their home offices but accessing company computers remotely. On the other hand, more and more IoT devices are finding their place in the home environment as part of smart home. Poorly secured IoT devices in the smart home are becoming increasingly interesting for cyber criminals. After all, a home network can be infiltrated via these IoT devices. If a user in this network uses a home office to remotely accesses the company network, there is an opportunity to infiltrate this network as well via vulnerabilities or poorly secured access points.
[German]The US security agency CISA and the FBI have issued a warning stating that ransomware gangs are now targeting weekends and holidays for their attack campaigns. This tends to thin out IT staff to monitor networks, and attacks are not noticed or are more difficult to defend.
[German]Cumulative update KB5005033, released on the August 2021 patchda,y for Windows 10 version 2004, 20H2 and 21H1 is also supposed to fix the PrintNightmare vulnerabilities in Point and Print. A blog reader who manages a number of clients in a business environment informed me a few days ago that some of his Windows 10 clients are refusing to install with error code 0x800F0988. He strongly suspects that the problem, which have been going on for some time, are related to the May 2021 SSU integration. Let me pull together his findings in a blog post.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
