Spyware-like features found in China app Bejing One Pass

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Foreign companies operating in China need the Beijing One Pass app, to access a digital platform for managing government employee benefits. Now security specialists have found spyware-like features in this app and made that known.

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Authentication Vulnerability CVE-2021-20090 in Arcadyan-based Routers and Modems

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Routers and modems from the Taiwan-based manufacturer Arcadyan have a CVE-2021-20090 vulnerability that can be used to bypass authentication. The routers and modems are sold under many trade names by other manufacturers.

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PowerShell module for Edge user profile backup/restore

Edge[German]For users who want to easily backup and restore their Edge browser profile data, I have a solution. A PowerShell module that can perform this exact task for the current user.

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27 U.S. Attorney's Offices Affected by SolarWinds Hack

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]New information on SolarWinds supply chain attack on Orion software. Tens of thousands of companies and organizations around the world were compromised via the attack, which was suspected to be attributed to Russian state-related hackers. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has now announced that 27 U.S. government agencies were also affected by the SolarWinds hack.

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Microsofts Windows Quality Updates Primer (July 21, 2021)

Windows[German]Microsoft provides different types of updates for Windows (10 and 11). These range from the monthly security and quality updates on patchday to preview updates and out-of-band updates. This is all known to well-informed administrators and users. But Microsoft has probably seen the need to write that down again (and also for Windows 11) in more detail.

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

[Sponsored Post]In the rapidly evolving IT world, choosing the right remote desktop software is critical for organizations that value security, ease of use and reliability. One provider of secure remote access that has been on the market since 2001 is ISL Online, which presents some considerations for choosing such software below. More ...


Windows 10 20H2/21H1: Explorer does not show all servers of the domain environment

Windows[German]Once again, a general question that came to me via a blog reader. It's about servers in a domain environment no longer showing up completely in Explorer in the Network Neighborhood on Windows 10 clients (20H2 and 21H1). The reader has a strange error pattern depending on which environment is used.

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Edge 92.0.902.62 fixes PDF freeze bug

Edge[German]Microsoft has also updated the Edge browser to version 92.0.902.62 as of July 29, 2021. The release notes on the beta channel  state that various bugs and performance issues have been fixed. German blog reader Uli writes that this update fixes the issues described in the blog post Microsoft Edge 92.0.902.55: Fixes vulnerabilities, causes freezes in PDFs.

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Out-of-band update KB5005393 for Windows 10 V1607 printing issues (July 29, 2021)

Update[German]Microsoft has now released the unscheduled update for Windows 10 version 1607 as well as Windows Server 2016 on July 29, 2021. This special update KB5005393 is supposed to fix the printing problem in connection with a SmartCard authentication. Here is a quick overview of this update.

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Windows 10 V1909: Preview Update KB5004293 (July 29, 2021)

Windows[German]In addition to the preview update for Windows 10 version 2004 – 21H1 (see Windows 10 2004-21H1: Preview Update KB5004296 (July 29, 2021)) Microsoft also released an optional cumulative (preview) update KB5004293 for Windows 10 version 1909 (Enterprise, Education, IoT) on July 29, 2021. The update fixes several gaming issues as well as many other bugs. Here is an overview of this update.

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Windows 10 2004-21H1: Preview Update KB5004296 (July 29, 2021)

Windows[German]Microsoft has released another optional cumulative (preview) update for Windows 10 version 2004, 20H2 and 21H1, as well as their Windows Server counterparts, as of July 29, 2021. The update fixes several gaming issues, as well as many other bugs. Here's an overview of this update.

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