[German]The developers of the Thunderbird email client have released Thunderbird 78.13.0 on August 10, 2021. This is a maintenance and security update for the 78 development branch that should fix several bugs and vulnerabilities.
[German]Mozilla's developers have released version 91.0.0 (including ESR version) and 78.13.0 ESR of the Firefox browser on August 10, 2021. The version 91.0.0 is a new development branch of the browser, and the 78.13.0 ESR is a security update, which should eliminate vulnerabilities, but also fix bugs.
[German]As of August 10, Microsoft has released various updates for Windows 8.1. However, these security updates are also available for Windows Server 2012 R2. Here is some information about the Monthly Rollup and Security only updates for this operating system.
[German]As of August 10, Microsoft has released various updates for Windows 7 SP1 systems that are still in ESU support. Also with ESU Bypass v11 the whole thing still works. But these security updates are also available for Windows Server 2008 R2 with ESU support. Here is some information about the Monthly Rollup and Security only Updates for this operating system.
[German]On August 10, 2021 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), several cumulative updates were released for the supported Windows 10 builds (from the RTM version to the current version 21H1). Here are some details about the respective patchday security updates.
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[German]On August 10, 2021, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office, etc. – as well as for other products – were released. Below is a compact overview of these updates released on the August 2021 patchday.
[German]Small addendum: Oracle's developers have already released Virtualbox version 6.1.26 on July 28, 2020. It is a maintenance update that is supposed to fix bugs of previous versions.
[German]Unknown thread actors are scanning the Internet for Microsoft Exchange servers that are updated to March 2021 and are not protected against the ProxyLogon vulnerability. CERT-Bund warns, and calls for patching. Meanwhile, there are advanced Sigma rules for administrators to defend against attacks. And there is a script that administrators can use to check whether their own Exchange servers are vulnerable. Below I have summarized some information around this topic.
[German]Question: Has anyone experienced problems with Google Chrome 92 or its Edge counterpart when the called domain starts with the letter a (Amazon, Autodesk, etc.)? The tentatively rolled out CECPQ2 may be clashing with Fortigate 6.4.5 and the overarching Palo Alto solutions.
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[German]The ncccgroup released a Technical Advisory as of August 5 warning of the RCE vulnerability CVE-2021-22937 in Pulse Connect Secure. The Pulse Connect Secure appliance suffers from an uncontrolled archive extraction vulnerability that allows an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files, resulting in remote code execution as root. This vulnerability is a workaround to patch for CVE-2020-8260.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
