[German]Security researchers from vendor Check Point have discovered four vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office through fuzzing. According to Check Point, products in the Office suite are affected, including Excel and Word. The vulnerabilities stem from outdated code and open up the possibility for attackers to execute malicious command lines via attempted Office documents.
[German]The developers of Tor Bundle have released version 10.0.18 of Tor Browser on June 21, 2021. This update is supposed to fix numerous bugs as well as a vulnerability that allows tracking the user.
[German]The world's largest cruise operator, Carnival Cruise, has again been forced to admit to a data breach incident. For the second time in a year, attackers broke into email accounts and gained access to personal, financial and health information of guests, employees and crew.
[German]Today another small blog post about installation problems with Windows 10 updates with a surprising cause. I came across a case where the installation of update KB5003635 fails on Windows 10 version 1909 clients. The cause is bizarre: an outdated version of Robocopy. Currently, the only option is to upgrade to a newer Windows 10 version or suspend the update.
[German]There are no more security updates for Windows 10 version 1803 and version 1809, as these versions are no longer supported for 30 months. However, ACROS Security released a micro-patch last week to provide a fix for the CVE-2021-31959 vulnerability in the Internet Explorer 11 scripting engine in this Windows 10 version.
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[German]Paypal is increasing its fee structure in the U.S. starting in August 2021. That's according to this announcement. For PayPal Digital Payments for PayPal payment products (such as PayPal Checkout, Pay with Venmo, PayPal Credit, Pay in 4, PayPal Pay with Rewards, Checkout with crypto) that include seller protection for eligible transactions, the rate for online transactions will be 3.49% + $0.491 per transaction.
[German]Due to a bug, the developers of the VLC Player had to withdraw version 3.0.15, which was released on June 8, 2021. Now version 3.0.16 is available for Linux, macOS and Windows. There is no changelog yet, but the version is supposed to fix the D3D11 crash on Windows 8.1. The update is not yet offered in the VLC player. However, the download is already possible on the FTP server.
[German]Do you have a car? At some point, you will probably have to replace it. What used to be an expensive but often joyful act could mutate into a nightmare in the future. The Beetle shown here is not affected – even though it is a newer model. In the past (TM), it was still possible to repair. Today, modern vehicles already require expensive diagnostic stations that lock out the private screwdriver. But the future will be even worse – according to the developers, future vehicles will contain a lot of digital technology and software. And that raises the question of software updates, as well as bugs in the code and support time.
A notebook that can be repaired by the user when faults occur and doesn't have to be thrown away or sent to support and replaced at horrendous cost? The American startup Framework has set itself the goal of ending the throwaway mentality in this area.
[Greman]A presumably early copy of a Windows 11 ISO installation file became public via a Chinese website a few days ago (see Windows 11 build 21996.1 leaked). While there were doubts whether it was a fake at first, Microsoft is now taking action against websites that offer the ISO for download. The website FOSSByte takes up the whole matter in the article Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Existence And Leak In DMCA Complaint [Exclusive] and reports that Microsoft has filed DMCA complaints against the site operators.
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