3 years of GDPR: Further ambiguity in companies

Posted on 2021-06-01 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Three years ago, on May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force. This meant enormous changes for many companies with regard to the storage and processing of data – although the GDPR had not introduced anything new. But now, severe penalties loom for companies that fall victim to a data protection incident. To mark this anniversary, UK market research firm Opinion Matters conducted a survey of 1,276 business decision-makers on behalf of CrowdStrike to gauge current perceptions of the regulations within companies.

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Windows 10: Edge browser bugs and annoying popups

Posted on 2021-05-31 by guenni

Edge[German]Recently version 91 of the Chromium Edge browser was released by Microsoft to catch up with the Chromium development version level. With Chromium Edge version 91, Microsoft has not only elevated the browser to a new development branch, but also managed to alienate people again with bugs and especially annoying pop-ups.

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Windows 10: Changes and strange behavior with driver updates via WSUS

Posted on 2021-05-31 by guenni

Windows[German]I'm summarizing two topics that have been lying around for a while in a collective post. It's about the possibility to install drivers in Windows 10. In Windows 10, Microsoft has made an update to the device manager in the Insider Previews at the beginning of May 2021 to better manage drivers. And a blog reader contacted me by email back in March about some driver installation oddities related to WSUS and Windows 10 that he noticed.

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Windows 10 21H1: StrangeTaskbar issues after update KB5003214

Posted on 2021-05-31 by guenni

Windows[German]It seems that the new feature "News and interests", installed with optional preview update KB5003214 is causing some nasty issues for some users of Windows 10 version 21H1 (and probably version 2004/20H2). First I got a report from one German user, but after publishing an article in German, other users confirming the issue – and I found more references within the internet.

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Bulk Join for Windows Devices to Azure AD and MS Endpoint Manager

Posted on 2021-05-30 by guenni

Windows[German]Administrators who manage Windows 10 devices may face the problem of connecting a large number of new Windows devices to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and Intune. This task can be accomplished with the help of an appropriately created deployment package and Intune. Microsoft's Intune group has published an article on this topic.

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

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nVidia: Monitor remains dark at DisplayPort 1.4 during bootup

Posted on 2021-05-30 by guenni

[German]It's a strange issue, that users of monitors on the DisplayPort have. The monitors remain dark (black) when booting the computer and do not display anything. Only when the operating system is loaded, a display appears on the monitor at some point. It seems to be due to the hardware or the installed nVidia graphics cards.

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Insides about Crime & Surveillance App Citizen

Posted on 2021-05-29 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]A hacktivist has managed to pull huge amounts of data from the crime app Citizen and subsequently published it on the dark web. The dataset contains 1.7 million "incidents" (the notifications in the app), which reveals new insights into how Citizen works.

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Edge 91.0.864.37: "Specific Page" won't load at startup

Posted on 2021-05-29 by guenni

Edge[German]Microsoft's latest Edge update is causing trouble for users because a bug has crept in. Users can no longer set a start page that Edge automatically loads on startup. The browser simply ignores all settings in the Edge 91.0.864.37 version. Addenum: It seems to be a nasty feature.

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New (Python) virus for Windows found with unknown origin

Posted on 2021-05-28 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]German blog reader Christian contacted me yesterday by mail because he encountered a virus (Trojan) at some of his customers that was not detected by Microsoft Defender so far. There is not much information about the virus yet – unfortunately there is no scan available at VirusTotal. But I'll post the information Christian has already found out – maybe someone of you will find more information.

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Edge 91.0.864.37

Posted on 2021-05-28 by guenni

Edge[German]Following the Chrome 91.0.4472.77 update (see Google Chrome 91.0.4472.77 with security fixes) on May 25, 2021, Microsoft released Edge 91.0.864.37 on May 27, 2021. The update fixes various vulnerabilities that have already been fixed in Google Chrome.

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