Microsoft Security Update Summary (February 9, 2021)

Posted on 2021-02-10 by guenni

[German]On February 9, 2021, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office, Internet Explorer, and so on. Here you can find a compact overview of these updates. A list of the updates can be found on this Microsoft page. Details about the update packages for Windows, Office, etc. are available in separate blog posts.

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Firefox 85.0.2

Posted on 2021-02-10 by guenni

Mozilla[German]The Mozilla developers have released version 85.0.2 of the Firefox browser on February 9, 2021. This is a maintenance update that is supposed to fix bugs.

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Hacker tried to poison water supply of a Florida city

Posted on 2021-02-09 by guenni

[German]A nightmare of hackers using the Internet to manipulate a city's water supply and make drinking water undrinkable or even poison it has come true again in the United States. A hacking operation in which an intruder spent minutes opening valves at the water treatment plant to increase the concentration of sodium hydroxide in the water just became public.

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Another 100,000 Spotify account credentials become public

Posted on 2021-02-09 by guenni

[German]Users of the Spotify service are likely to get another headache. A security researcher has found a database with over 100,000 access data for Spotify user accounts. These are likely to have been obtained via credential stuffing attack and allow unauthorized third parties to access these user accounts on Spotify.

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Linux OS secretly installs Microsoft repo on Raspberry Pi

Posted on 2021-02-08 by guenni

[German]Nasty  story or technical necessary? In the Raspberry Pi community, there is a shit storm, after an update of the Raspbian operating system secretly installed a Microsoft repo. This repo triggers a ping on a Microsoft server with every update.

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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Windows 10: .NET-Framework Updates KB4598301 and KB4598299 are causing crashes

Posted on 2021-02-08 by guenni

[German]The .NET Framework updates KB4598301 (Jan. 2021) and KB4598299 (Feb. 2021) are proving to be a problem for some users, causing crashes (STATUS_FATAL_USER_CALLBACK_EXCEPTION) in WPF applications built with Visual Studio.

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0patch fixes 0-day in Internet Explorer

Posted on 2021-02-08 by guenni

[German]Today or tomorrow, Tuesday, ACROS Security plans to release a 0patch fix for a 0-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The patch is currently in testing. Addendum: The Micropatch has been released on February 11,  2021.

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Windows 10: Find out the reason for blocked feature updates

Posted on 2021-02-08 by guenni

[German]Why is a feature update for a Windows 10 machine blocked by Microsoft? Windows Update or the upgrade wizard usually does not provide much enlightening information. A PowerShell script FU.WhyAmIBlocked by Adam Gross and an article by him may help. 

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Intel Graphics driver security updates 15.45.34.5174 and 15.40.48.5171

Posted on 2021-02-08 by guenni

[German]Intel has released Intel Graphics driver version 15.45.34.5174 and 15.40.48.5171 for Windows 7, 8 and 10. The driver fixes some bugs and also some (undetailled) vulnerabilities. Details and release notes may be found on the linked Intel pages. (via)

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Reminder: Enforcement Mode starting Feb. 9, 2021 for Windows Server Domain Controllers

Posted on 2021-02-07 by guenni

[German]A brief reminder for administrators of Windows Server systems running as domain controllers. From February 9, 2021, the so-called enforcement mode for closing the Netlogon vulnerability will become mandatory – Microsoft will then roll out the relevant update. Update: Microsoft mentioned a 2nd date March 9, 2021 for Enforcement mode – see addendum below.

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