[German]Microsoft has now confirmed the printing problems (partly BlueScreens) after installing the March 2021 security updates for Windows and is working on re-releases. In addition, there are some hints from blog readers on how they got the systems working again.
[German]On March 9, 2021, Microsoft has released various (security) updates for Windows 7 SP1 (ESU) and Windows Server 2008 R2. Here is an overview of these updates – somewhat delayed due to the printer issue.
[German]Another short addendum to the never-ending topic of Proxylogon vulnerability and hafnium mass hack. Microsoft has released new updates for old CUs. Around 10 hacker groups are now trying to exploit the vulnerabilities in unpatched Exchange servers, and the list of known victims is getting longer.
[German]Beware, there are initial reports here on the blog that cumulative updates KB5000802 and KB5000808 from March 9, 2021 for Windows 10 (1909 – 20H2) is causing BlueScreen in win32kfull.sys when printing.
[German]On March 9, 2021 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), several cumulative updates were released for the supported Windows 10 builds. Here are some details about each update.
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[German]On March 9, 2021, Microsoft has released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office, Internet Explorer, and so on. Below is a compact overview of these updates.
[German]Microsoft issued more out-of-band updates for older Microsoft Exchange Server CUs (which have already fallen out of support) last night. In addition, it is now clear, when the attack waves started and what could have protected against the hack, although four 0-day exploits existed for months. Let me summarize some new information in this post.
[German]The developers of the Thunderbird email client have released Thunderbird 78.8.1 on March 8, 2021. This is a maintenance update for the 78 main version of the email client, which fixes various bugs.
[German]In the context of the digital developer conference Ignite 2021, Microsoft also announced a new approach for installing driver and firmware updates. Windows administrators are expected to have full control over these updates at some point in the future.
[German]I already came across the information from Flashpoint a few days ago, according to which the Russian-language hacker forum Maza itself was hacked. It seems that credentials of users in other forums have been published.
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