[German]Microsoft has an extension (add-on) for the Edge browser that allows access to various Outlook services (hotmail.com or outlook.com) such as Mail, Calendar, Teams, etc. directly in the browser.
[German]The developers of the Thunderbird email client have recently released version 91 (only available as a download and not as an update). Now, a maintenance and security update to version 91.0.1 has been released on August 17, 2021, and version 91.0.2 on August 23, 2021.
[German]Brief note to administrators who are also responsible for Microsoft Azure. Microsoft has released Azure AD Connect 2.0.10.0. This is intended as a hotfix to work around issues that occur when renaming a domain.
[German]Connecting a Razer mouse is enough to gain administrative privileges as a standard user. The background is that the driver installation is executed with SYSTEM rights and the user can then open an administrative prompt. He already has administrative access to the system. Razer did not respond to a request from the discoverer of the vulnerability.
[German]I have been waiting for this for a long time, but now the feared has happened. Since Friday, there has been a massive wave of attacks on unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers via the ProxyShell vulnerability. Huntres has already discovered over 1,900 hacked Exchange servers but which had a shell installed. Meanwhile, CERT-Bund also warns. Here is some information about the state of attack wave.
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[German]Presumably the latest security update of August 10, 2021, causes a rather exotic problem with Microsoft's Surface Studios. A blog reader pointed out, that the mouse positioning of the text cursor correctly is no longer possible in Microsoft Word 2019 because the position is shifted.
[German]There is a partial fix for a problem that users of monitors on DisplayPort 1.4 have. Some monitors (with higher resolution) stay dark (black) when booting the computer and show nothing. Only when the operating system is loaded does a display appear on the monitor at some point. It seems to be due to the hardware or the installed nVidia graphics cards. At least the manufacturer Asus has now apparently released a solution in the form of a vBIOS update for the TUF 3080 TI.
[German]It looks like the August 2021 KB5005033 cumulative update (and July preview update) is causing problems for some Windows 10 users. The functionality of the Alt-Tab key combination seems to be disrupted, especially when playing games in certain scenarios. Users who installed the preview update KB5004296 from July 2021 already had to make this experience. However, there is probably a workaround to fix the problem, because the News and Interesting Topics feature once again proves to be a "killer feature".
[German]Currently, some users of Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 are wondering about the updates offered by Microsoft Update Servers. Two users have contacted me who were suddenly offered ancient updates on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 as important (thanks for that). I'll post it on the blog to find out if more users are affected. By the way, this is not the first case of such zombie updates showing up.
[German]Security vendor Emisoft has released a decryptor that enables the decryption of files encrypted by the Synack ransomware. This allows victims to recover their files without having to pay the demanded ransom from the cyber criminals. The decryptor is available for free.
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