Adobe Reader/DC Update (Feb. 9, 2021) drops error 1722 in Windows

Posted on 2021-02-11 by guenni

[German]German blog reader Martin E. alerted me last night to a problem with yesterday's Adobe Reader/Acrobat DC security update. There are massive installation problems on Windows with the Adobe Reader /Acrobat DC security update dated February 9, 2021 (the setup ends with Error 1722). It probably affects systems when no user is logged in to the system, as I saw during a quick research. Root cause is a new UWP app from Adobe, but there is a workaround.

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Patchday Microsoft Office Updates (February 9, 2021)

Posted on 2021-02-11 by guenni

[German]On February 9, 2021 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft has released several security-related updates for still supported Microsoft Office versions and other products. Here is an overview of the available updates.

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Patchday: Windows 8.1/Server 2012 Updates (February 9, 2021)

Posted on 2021-02-10 by guenni

Windows Update[German]As of February 9, 2021, Microsoft has released various updates for Windows 8.1. However, these updates are also available for Windows Server 2012 R2. Here is some information about them.

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Patchday: Updates for Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 (9. Februar 2021)

Posted on 2021-02-10 by guenni

Windows Update[German]On February 9, 2021, Microsoft released various (security) updates for Windows 7 SP1 (ESU) and Windows Server 2008 R2. Here is the overview of these updates.

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Patchday: Windows 10-Updates (February 9, 2021)

Posted on 2021-02-10 by guenni

[German]On February 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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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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Microsoft Security Update Summary (February 9, 2021)

Posted on 2021-02-10 by guenni

[German]On February 9, 2021, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office, Internet Explorer, and so on. Here you can find a compact overview of these updates. A list of the updates can be found on this Microsoft page. Details about the update packages for Windows, Office, etc. are available in separate blog posts.

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Firefox 85.0.2

Posted on 2021-02-10 by guenni

Mozilla[German]The Mozilla developers have released version 85.0.2 of the Firefox browser on February 9, 2021. This is a maintenance update that is supposed to fix bugs.

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Hacker tried to poison water supply of a Florida city

Posted on 2021-02-09 by guenni

[German]A nightmare of hackers using the Internet to manipulate a city's water supply and make drinking water undrinkable or even poison it has come true again in the United States. A hacking operation in which an intruder spent minutes opening valves at the water treatment plant to increase the concentration of sodium hydroxide in the water just became public.

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Another 100,000 Spotify account credentials become public

Posted on 2021-02-09 by guenni

[German]Users of the Spotify service are likely to get another headache. A security researcher has found a database with over 100,000 access data for Spotify user accounts. These are likely to have been obtained via credential stuffing attack and allow unauthorized third parties to access these user accounts on Spotify.

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Linux OS secretly installs Microsoft repo on Raspberry Pi

Posted on 2021-02-08 by guenni

[German]Nasty  story or technical necessary? In the Raspberry Pi community, there is a shit storm, after an update of the Raspbian operating system secretly installed a Microsoft repo. This repo triggers a ping on a Microsoft server with every update.

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