[German]A brief news before we head into the weekend: Microsoft will no longer launch its slimmed-down Windows 10X (and ChromeOS competitor) in 2021, which I had actually expected for the spring release. Instead, they want to focus on the revision of Windows 10 as part of the Sunvalley project. There are even speculations that the plug has just been pulled completely. Here are the latest rumors surrounding this issue.
[German]ACROS Security has released a micropatch for the CVE-2021-26415 vulnerability in Windows Installer. This vulnerability was patched by Microsoft in April 2021 via a security update. The 0patch solution is for people who do not have an ESU license.
[German]Microsoft is responding to the fact that there is no legal basis for data exchange between European customers and the US. Therefore, Microsoft plans to adapt its products so that in the future, at some point, the data of European companies and government agencies will only be hosted on servers that are located in the EU.
[German]Mozilla's developers have released versions 88.0.1 and 78.10.1 of the Firefox browser on 5.Mail 2021. It is a security update, which should eliminate vulnerabilities, but also fixes bugs.
[German]The developers of the Thunderbird email client have released Thunderbird 78.10.1 on May 4, 2021. It is a maintenance update for the 78 main version of the email client, which fixes various bugs and vulnerabilities.
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[German]Brief information, after a blog reader send me a question/hint. Samsung has teamed up with Microsoft and will soon host the Samsung Cloud at OneDrive. That raises concerns that Samsung Cloud users may facing similar issues like OneDrive users: Microsoft could lock an OneDrive account without notification, claiming violation of terms of use. Here's some information sorted out about that.
[German]Quick question to see if any of you are affected. Microsoft Defender, which is included by default in Windows, seems to have been running amok for a few hours now, creating and leaving thousands of files on Windows servers (and possibly Windows 10 clients). A user reached out to me on Twitter last night regarding this and left some initial clues. Here's a brief overview.
[German]Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in a driver that has been installed on millions of Dell consumer and enterprise Windows systems over the past 12 years. These vulnerabilities allow an attacker to perform privilege escalation. In other words, the vulnerability (CVE-2021-21551) in Dell's so-called DBUtil Windows driver now puts the affected PCs, All-in-One and 2-in-1 systems at security risk.
[German]On May 4, 2021 (first Tuesday of the month, Office Patchday) Microsoft releases non-security updates for still supported versions of Microsoft Office. Here's a quick rundown – there were only updates for Office 2016 this time, but it seems Outlook is having issues with autocomplete.
[German]The Credit Scores of Millions of Americans has been exposed via a faulty API of credit reporting company Experian, as Krebs on Security reported here. A name and an email address was sufficient, to snoop into the credit score of tens of millions of Americans. Although Experian says it has plugged the data leak, the security expert who has uncovered this leak, fears, that other lending websites, who are using this API are still suffering from thes vulnerability.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
