[German]Small update on the SolarWinds hack. The attackers probably had access to the emails of top people of the US Homeland Security (DHS). And the manufacturer SolarWinds has released a security update for its Orion software, which closes a new vulnerability.
[German]There seems to have been a successful supply chain attack on the official Git server of the PHP project. The attackers managed to upload an unauthorized update to insert a secret backdoor into the source code.
[German]Quick question: Has Windows 10 correctly changed the night to European summer time for you? And most importantly, does the time remain correct? I have received several hints of problems.
[German]Windows 10 users may run into activation error 0xc004c003 – the error has been running through various Windows versions for years. For Windows 10 version 2004 as well as version 20H2, Microsoft has now released a workaround for this error, which occurs in conjunction with the January 2021 preview update KB5001692.
Security researchers has found vulnerabilities in Foxit Reader and Phantom PDF. The Windows versions can be attacked by crafted images, according to this security bulletin from the vendor. However, there are updates to Foxit Reader 10.1.3 and Foxit PhantomPDF 10.1.3 that close these vulnerabilities.
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[German]Has TU-Darmstadt fallen victim to a Ragnarok ransomware attack? At least that is what information I received from a security researcher suggests.
[English]Microsoft has released a new Servicing Stack Update (SSU) for Windows 10. The SSU KB5001205 is supposed to fix a vulnerability in the fixt Security Boot. This vulnerability was torn open by a previous update for the Security Boot.
[German]Microsoft has released updates for Windows 10 version 1809 and 1909 as of March 26, 2021. These are updates that are supposed to fix bugs. For Windows 10 version 1909, the update is supposed to remove the Legacy Edge from the Windows 10 installation. As it seems, these preview updates do not correct anything more about the printing issues that occurred in March 2021, but were corrected by special updates..
[German]The developers of the Thunderbird email client have released Thunderbird 78.9.0 on March 23, 2021. This is a maintenance update for the 78 main version of the email client, which fixes various bugs and five vulnerabilities.
[German]The Tor developers have released an update to version 10.0.14 of the Tor bundle. In the process, Firefox has been updated to 78.9.0esr and Tor to 0.4.5.7. NoScript is now version 11.2.3.
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