[German]Why is it so difficult for users in everyday corporate life to adhere to the generally known basics of good password hygiene? Tom Haak, CEO of Lywand, a provider of automated security audits for MSSPs and their SME customers, addresses this question on the occasion of World Password Day on May 1.
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[German]It's the absolute worst-case scenario for data protection and a nightmare for companies. The misconfiguration of software exposes millions of screenshots containing extremely confidential data. Happened with the employee monitoring software WorkComposer due to a misconfiguration.
[German]Good news for users of Windows 7 SP1 and possibly Windows Server 2008 R2. There is probably an increasing demand to continue to operate these operating systems, which have long since reached their end-of-life (EOL), securely. ACROS Security has now announced that it will support these Windows versions with 0patch until January 2027.
[German]Microsoft will soon block Microsoft Teams clients that have not been updated for 90 days. On July 1, 2025, however, users who are still using the old Microsoft Teams Classic (1.0) client are threatened with the end. After this date, this client will no longer be available and will no longer work. An update to the Teams New (2.0) client will be required.
[German]I have just come across information about a vulnerability in the Microsoft Telnet server. The vulnerability is said to allow a -Click-NTLM Authentication Bypass. Fortunately, only old systems up to Windows Server 2008 R2 are affected. Telnet should be deactivated an such old Windows servers, in case, it's activated.
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[German]A nasty surprise for some clinics and their IT departments. Maintenance technicians from the US provider Oracle unintentionally deleted critical resources during support. As a result, the IT "lights went out" at 45 clinics that were Oracle customers. Oracle Health was no longer running. The clinics had to fiddle with paper and pencil for days. Go to the cloud, they said in IT, you're not responsible there.
[German]The developers of Kali Linux have frozen their repository for a few days, meaning that updates to the operating system may fail. The reason for this is a lost repository key for signing the files.
[German]Microsoft offers a so-called hot patching option to Windows Server 2025, so that restarts can be suspended during the monthly security updates. Redmond has now announced that this feature need a subscription ans will be charged from July 1, 2025 onwards.
[German]New appraisal system: Microsoft wants to get rid of "underperformers "Microsoft management has plans to get rid of some of its employees who are underperforming. To this end, a new appraisal system is being introduced in the 51st year of the company's history to identify such employees. This emerges from an internal email to managers, which is available to Business Insider.
[German]Sobering figures and a "slap in the face for Microsoft". Their CoPilot, offered by Sauer-Bier, has been stuck at 20 million weekly users for a year now. OpenAI, on the other hand, can look back on increasing user numbers with ChatGPT and currently has 400 million active users per week.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
