LinkedIn down (Feb. 23, 2021)

Posted on 2021-02-23 by guenni

[German]Microsoft's social network platform LinkedIn must have experienced a massive worldwide outage shortly before 8:00 p.m. on February 23, 2021. At least that's what various media report.

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Adobe Acrobat (Reader) DC 21.001.20140

Posted on 2021-02-23 by guenni

[German]Adobe had to ship another update for Adobe Reader after a recent hotfix corrected a bug (see Adobe Reader/Acrobat DC Hotfix 21.001.20138 fixes install error 1722). In the Feb. 22, 2021 an update to Adobe Acrobat (Reader) DC 21.001.20140 has been released, Adobe fixes a bug that caused an error message to be incorrectly displayed, the release notes reveal. The details can be read on the linked web page. (via)

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Jian: NSA tool copied and used by China's hackers

Posted on 2021-02-23 by guenni

[German]Security researchers have found evidence that a hacking tool allegedly developed by the U.S. NSA was copied by Chinese hackers and used under the name Jian long before the NSA tools were released by the Shadow Browsers group.

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Windows 10 V1909: WSUS bug prevents correct display of build number

Posted on 2021-02-22 by guenni

[German]Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is having problems detecting the correct build numbers on Windows 10 version 1909. Due to a bug, an incorrect build number is returned.

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Silver Sparrow malware infects around 30,000 Macs

Posted on 2021-02-21 by guenni

[German]Security researchers have detected a malware dubbed "Silver Sparrow" that has infected around 30,000 Macs, including the new machines with M1 chip. Here are a few information about that.

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Windows 10 2004/20H2: Update fails due to Intel Management Engine

Posted on 2021-02-21 by guenni

[German]There are reports, that Intel Management Engine is causing issues during update installation in Windows 10 version 2004 / 20H2? A German blog reader pointed me to this issue, because updates are dropping a bluescreen PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (update error 0x800F0845) during installs on machines with certain chipsets. The cause seems to be the Intel Management Engine.

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2nd SonicWall security update for SMA 100 vulnerability

Posted on 2021-02-21 by guenni

[German]SonicWall has released a second firmware security update for its SMA 100 to close a 0-day vulnerability. Administrators should install this update immediately as the vulnerability is being exploited.

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Privacy bug in Brave browser leaks Tor-Onion URLs to DNS provider

Posted on 2021-02-20 by guenni

[German]Brave browser have had a bug in the privacy mode, so that the leaked all Tor-Onion URLs in Privat Windows with Tor mode to the DNS provider. However, the developers seem to have corrected this bug in the meantime.

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Forced Update KB4577586 removes Flash from Windows 10

Posted on 2021-02-20 by guenni

Sicherheit[German]Microsoft has begun to remove Adobe Flash Player from Windows. The Windows 10 Preview updates released on February 16, 2021, removes Adobe Flash Player from certain versions of Windows 10. In addition, Microsoft is again forcibly delivering the October 2020 Flash removal update KB4577586 to machines that do not have this update installed.

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Microsoft Security Update Releases (Feb. 17, 2021)

Posted on 2021-02-19 by guenni

[German]Small addendum from this week: Microsoft has published a summary of changed security descriptions for Excel RCE vulnerabilities and also points to revised servicing stack updates. Here is a brief overview of the info I received via email on 2/18/2021.

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