[German]On July 13, 2021 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), several cumulative updates were released for the supported Windows 10 builds (from RTM version to the current version 21H1). Here are some details about the respective patchday security updates. Continue reading
[German]The websites and infrastructure of the REvil ransomware group have been suddenly shut down or offline since last night. Even the server used to pay the victims is no longer accessible. Currently, it is completely unclear what is behind this situation – and whether the group has been grounded by the state.
[German]Microsoft has released security updates for Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019 as of July 13, 2021. These July updates are required to address vulnerabilities reported by external security partners and found through Microsoft's internal processes. The updates apply to the Exchange Server on-premises installations listed below.
[German]A breif information for in between: Are you aware that the so-called mainstream support for Windows Server 2016 will already end on Jan. 11, 2022? From this point on, this operating system will still get security updates, but no more bug fixes and improvements are planned by Microsoft. According to this document, however, Windows Server 2016 will continue to get security updates until Jan. 12, 2027, when it will drop out of support. By the way, the product was released on October 15, 2016. I assume that the mass of installations are still with Windows Server 2016. Are any of you switching to Windows Server 2019 as of January 2022?
[German]On July 13, 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 July 2021 patchday.
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[German]US Vendor SolarWinds, hacked in 2020 and allowing attackers to infiltrate thousands of customer systems via Orion software, has now closed a 0-day vulnerability in Serv-U with an update. The remote execution vulnerability CVE-2021-35211, which occurs in the file transfer functions, has already been exploited in the wild.
[German]It has been speculated for quite some time that Microsoft is working on a so-called cloud PC (see Is Microsoft planning a 'Windows 10 Cloud-PC' for 2021?). However, a launch in spring 2021 has definitely not taken place and Microsoft has not announced anything like that yet. It is rumored that it is a service that is provided from the cloud on 'dumb clients' . In the last few days, more information on this topic has surfaced, which I would like to briefly summarize in a post.
[German]Adobe is releasing a security update for Adobe Acrobat (Reader) DC to version 21.005.20058 on July 13, 2021, which is intended to patch vulnerabilities considered critical and important according to APSB21-51.The release notes contain the download addresses for the Windows and macOS installers, as well as notes on what (important) bugs have been fixed. (via)
[German]A brief note for administrators of a Microsoft Exchange Server 2016/2019. With CU21 (Exchange 2016) and CU10 (Exchange 2019) an AMSI integration was introduced to support third-party virus scanners. However, this integration causes severe problems with Outlook with various antivirus scanners.
[German]ACROS Security has released an update for its 0patch agent. The purpose of this update to version 21.05.05.10500 is to fix several bugs as well as performance issues that the previous 0patch agent can cause under Windows. The bugs and problems were reported by users or found internally by the development team.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
