QNAP investigates AgeLocker ransomware attacks (04/29/2021)

Posted on 2021-04-30 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[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.

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Microsoft is preparing Windows 10 Mai 2021 Update (21H1)

Posted on 2021-04-29 by guenni

Windows[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.

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QNAP NAS ransomware attack wrap-up (April 2021)

Posted on 2021-04-29 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[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.

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A data leak was exposing customers data from a Dynamics Pitch

Posted on 2021-04-28 by guenni

[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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End of support for .NET Framework 4.5.2, 4.6, and 4.6.1 in April 2022

Posted on 2021-04-28 by guenni

[German]In the developer blog, Microsoft informed about the expiring support for the .NET Framework versions 4.5.2, 4.6 and 4.6.1 on April 26, 2021. Their support will end on April 26, 2022, one year from now. Then there will be no more security updates. The exception is Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2015, because .NET Framework 4.6 is integrated in this operating system. This operating system version is an LTSC version (Long Term Servicing Channel). Microsoft will continue to support .NET Framework 4.6 on Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2015 until the end of support for this operating system version (October 2025). .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, on the other hand, will continue to receive support until Jan. 9, 2029. (via)

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

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Outlook: Fix for "Cannot send this item", Send mails are missing

Posted on 2021-04-28 by guenni

[German]Microsoft Outlook users and administrators sometimes struggle with the fact that the program does not always work reliably. Sometimes e-mails are not sent. In other cases, the mails are not sorted in the Sent folder or two program starts are required. I have listed two cases and their solutions.

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Google Chrome 90.0.4430.93 with security fixes

Posted on 2021-04-27 by guenni

[German]Google has released Google Chrome 90.0.4430.93 as of April 26, 2021. It is a security update that fixes 9 vulnerabilities in older browser versions. 

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Microsoft Defender blocks crypto-jacking attempts

Posted on 2021-04-27 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has added functionality to its Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to detect and eliminate attacks from crypto miners on protected systems. This uses Intel Threat Detection technology on Intel Core processors and the Intel vPro platform.

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Emotet Malware has been automatically uninstalled on April 25, 2021

Posted on 2021-04-26 by guenni

[German]As of April 25, 2021, Emotet malware was automatically removed from Windows machines. This is done through a cleanup feature that International Law Enforcement had installed on infected systems as early as January 2021.

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Windows 10: Microsoft tries to fix graphics issues in with games after April update

Posted on 2021-04-26 by guenni

[German]Microsoft rolled out an automatic fix for Windows 10 version 2004, 20H2 (as well as Insider Preview 21H1) last week that is supposed to fix graphics issues with games (stutter, crashes, etc.). But it seems, that it didn't help for all users. Here is a brief overview of this issue.

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