[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.
[German]Docker is limiting the use of the free version of its Docker Desktop utility to individuals or small businesses. At the same time, it introduced a new, more expensive subscription plan. The company has renamed its free plan "Personal" and requires companies with 250 or more employees or more than $10 million in annual revenue to pay for a subscription to Docker Desktop. The Register cover it here – the Docker announcement can be found here.
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[German]Security researchers from Juniper Networks are sounding the alarm. Already since the first week of August 2021, model and routers from the manufacturer Arcadyan (installed in many OEM devices) have been attacked via vulnerability CVE-2021-20090. Now, attacks on vulnerability CVE-2021-35394 and CVE-2021-35395 on IoT devices with RealTek SOCs are also observed in the wild.
[German]Windows Thin PC, according to this post, a Windows 7-based PC with a smaller footprint. Introduced in 2011, it allows organizations to convert existing PCs as thin clients to reduce the need for new thin client hardware. In addition, this solution has been very lucrative license-wise with VDI.
[German]Microsoft has updated the Edge browser to version 93.0.961.38 as of September 2, 2021. This is a new development branch based on Chromium 93 (see Chrome 93.0.4577.63). The update also closed some vulnerabilities.
[German]The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has served the Irish-based offshoot of Facebook subsidiary WhatsApp, which is headquartered for Europe, with a fine of 225 million euros for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation. This is the second-highest GDPR fine so far in the European Union since the GDPR came into force in May 2018.
Microsoft is probably planning to present new Surface models in a digital event on September 22, 2021. The software manufacturer has sent out corresponding invitations for this digital hardware event to the media.
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