[German]On May 13, 2025 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for Microsoft Office 2016, as well as the C2R variants (Office 2016-2021 and 365) and other products. In the meantime, I have received some reader feedback on problems. Excel can't load documents with filenames, containing leading square brackets [..].
[German]The Association of European Cloud Providers, CISPE, complains that VMware by Broadcom has increased the prices of its products for customers by a factor of 800 to 1500 percent following the takeover by Broadcom. Broadcom is accused of abusing its dominant market position and welcomes the EU competition complaint from the German IT user association VOICE.
[German]Even if Information Technology should move towards passwordless logins (passkey & Co.), logins using a user name and password are still widespread. Just as widespread are certain mistakes when choosing passwords, which jeopardizes security. I recently received an overview from Hostinger on this topic, which I would like to briefly post here.
[German]Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler came across a freely accessible and unprotected database on the Internet. The find was quite something, as a look at the data sets suggests that it was probably data collected by InfoStealer malware. Records containing 184 million logins and passwords were stored in the database.
[German]Law enforcement officers seized 300 servers and 650 domains used for ransomware attacks this week in Operation Endgame. As a result, cybercriminal networks were dismantled, funds confiscated and some suspects arrested. Further actions against cybercriminals were carried out with the Raptor and DANABOT campaigns. Here is an overview.
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[German]Delegated Managed Service Accounts (dMSAs) have been introduced in Windows Server 2025. These are service accounts for the Active Directory (AD) that are intended to enable new functions. Security researchers have now discovered that by misusing dMSAs, attackers can take over any principal in the domain.
[German]Law enforcement officials seize Lumma Stealer infrastructure (May 2025)In a coordinated operation, US law enforcement officials have seized the infrastructure (C & C servers) of the Lumma infostealer and paralyzed its function. The malware is responsible for numerous cyberattacks on users involving the interception of information and almost 400,000 PCs were infected.
[German]Following VMware by Broadcom's harsh treatment of customers and partners, FSAS Technologies (Fujitsu) is now suspending the VMware partnership from June 2025 onwards.
Last week, I reported on an impending wave of redundancies at Microsoft. 6,000 employees (approx. 3 % of the workforce) are to go. It is now becoming clear that long-time developers will also be affected.
[German]On May 13, 2025, Microsoft released the cumulative security update KB5058411 for Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 (24H2). This has the incredible size of 4368.9 MByte. This raises the question of what makes the update package so bloated? Spoiler: It's the AI stuff that Microsoft is including in the update.
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