[German]Microsoft has released the update KB5001391 for Windows 10 version 2004, for version 20H2 as well as for the upcoming version 21H1 as a preview on April 28, 2021. This update is supposed to fix a number of bugs – however, for one blog reader, it causes problems with games that I had already described a few days ago for the March 29, 2021 preview update. Here is some information around this update and the problems.
[German]Emotet malware (Trojan and ransomware) has been quite successful and has collected million email addresses and access data on compromised systems. As of April 25, 2021, the Emotet malware was automatically removed from Windows machines. Now, the FBI has handed over 4 million email addresses that they logged with during the seizure to the website Have I Been Pwned. There you can check if the addresses are compromised.
[German]The developers of VLC Player have released version 3.0.13 for Linux, macOS and Windows (currently only available on the FTP server). It is only a minimal maintenance update, which should fix bugs.
[German]After the Chrome 90.0.4430.93 -release by Google, Microsoft has released the update to the Edge 90.0.818.51 on April 29, 2021. The update fixes various vulnerabilities that have already been fixed in Google Chrome.
[German]Users who block various telemetry features, including the Windows Experiments feature in Windows 10, for privacy reasons will lose additional options offered by the operating system. It has just become known that a disabled Windows Experiments feature will also block the Known Issue Rollback (KIR) introduced in Windows 10 version 2004. Specifically, the required fixes can no longer be applied. Here is some information on this issue.
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[German]Microsoft is currently looking for a new standard font for its Office modules. At least that is what emerges from a tweet and a blog post from 28.4.2021. However, the whole thing raises more questions than it answers. If my gut instincts aren't deceiving, this is another step toward the cloud. Here's some information and thoughts on it.
[German]Just recently, QNAP NAS drives were encrypted by a ransomware attack – I went into this topic in the blog post The The QNAP disaster: Ransomware attack on NAS devices. Now the next attack is due. The vendor has again issued a security warning about its QNAP products as of April 29, 2021. There are indications that the devices or NAS drives are being actively attacked by the AgeLocker ransomware and the drive contents are being encrypted. The manufacturer is investigating these cases and asks users to update the systems. about the issue.
[German]Microsoft is preparing the next feature update for the spring release of Windows 10. This new Windows 10 build will be released as version 21H1 and is – big surprise – supposed to come as Windows 10 May 2021 update. At least, that's what Microsoft just announced and plans to commit the build in question today. Here's some information on what's known so far.
[German]Users of QNAP NAS drives were, after all, victims of a widespread ransomware campaign in April 2021, in which the drive contents were encrypted. The manufacturer responded with a security patch and also provided a "cleanup tool". However, the latter was not met with enthusiasm by everyone in charge – I received feedback from IT people on several channels right away. Therefore a glean on this topic.
[German]Security researchers have come across a misconfigured Microsoft Azure blob storage on the Internet that exposes sensitive internal information about a presentation for Microsoft Dynamics. Other companies have probably applied for a project or partnership with Microsoft Dynamics to integrate their products. According to the data, the dataset belongs to Microsoft.
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