[German]Swiss cloud provider, Swiss Cloud AG, fell victim to a cyber attack at the end of April 2021 – according to my information, it was a ransomware attack that brought the company to its knees. Here is a rough overview of what is known and confirmed by Swiss Cloud AG.
[German]Microsoft released a new Microsoft Graph APIs as a public preview the days. The new API is intended to enable developers and IT professionals to manage Windows 10 updates and accelerate Windows 10 security updates in enterprise environments.
[German]Users repeatedly ask how updates can be blocked for installation under Windows 10 (Home and Pro). After all, Microsoft has removed this functionality from Windows 10. If there are problems, the updates install themselves again and again, until the problem is gotten, the update has been withdrawn by Microsoft or blocked by the user. With the Windows Update Manager by David Xanatos, however, there is a tool to specifically hide updates under Windows 10.
[German]Microsoft has released the Security Baseline for Microsoft365 Apps for Enterprise v2104 as a final for enterprise deployment. This baseline builds on the previous Office baseline, which was released in mid-2019.
[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.
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[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.
[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.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
