[German]The Mozilla developers have released version 85.0.1 and 78.7.1 ESR of the Firefox browser on February 5, 2021. This is a security update that fixes vulnerabilities, but also aims to fix bugs.
[German]Google developers have updated the Chrome browser to version 88.0.4324.150 as of February 4, 2021 in the desktop version for Linux, macOS and Windows. This security update fixes a critical vulnerability in the older browser versions. Microsoft has also released Edge 88.0.705.62, which fixes seven vulnerabilities. And Internet Explorer also has a 0-day vulnerability. Addendum: An update to Edge 88.0.705.63 is available since Feb. 5, 2021.
[German]Once again revisiting an unpleasant issue. Automatic update installation is one of the mortgages placed on users of unmanaged Windows 10 systems. This includes .NET Framework preview updates being installed automatically.
On February 3, 2021, the developers have released WordPress version 5.6.1. It is a maintenance update that is supposed to fix 20 bugs (7 of them in the blog editor) of version 5.6. The release notes can be read here. I have just successfully converted a multisite blog without any problems and will update this blog here in a moment.
[German]On February 2, 2021 (first Tuesday of the month, Office Patchday), Microsoft released several non-security updates for versions of Microsoft Office that are still supported. Surprisingly, updates for Office 2010, which has already been unsupported since October 2020, are also included. Here's a brief overview.
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[German]According to reports from administrators, Microsoft Defender ATP seems to have incorrectly classified the latest 88 version updates of the Google Chrome browser as malware and quarantined them. However, the problem is now said to have been fixed by a new signature file.
[German]Microsoft has on February 2, 2021 updates KB4598291 for Windows 10 2004/20H2. The update KB4598291 had already been tested with Windows Insiders. In addition, there is an update KB4598299 for .NET Framework 3.5.
[German]American cable and Internet giant Comcast has been hit by a data leak. An unprotected database of the developers with 1.5 billion data records and a lot of internal information was accessible to third parties via the Internet.
[German]SonicWall is currently warning of a 0-day exploit that is being actively exploited to attack SonicWall Secure Mobile Access devices in the SMA 100 series. A patch has been announced by SonicWall for February 2, 2021.
[German]A warning for administrators of VMWare ESXi systems. The RansomExx ransomware gang appears to be involved in several incidents where vulnerabilities in VMWare ESXi instances have been exploited to attack virtual machines and encrypt their virtual disks.
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