[German]Users of the Android app LastPass (password manager) should consider removing it from their devices. German security researcher Mike Kuketz has found several trackers in the Android app that monitor devices and users.
[German]If any of you Windows 10 users are suffering from BlueScreen crashes and have an Intel WLAN/Bluetooth component on board, there may be a solution. Intel has released an update for its WiFi/Bluetooth driver to version 22.30.0, which is supposed to fix the BSOD problem under Windows 10. In addition, a WLAN detection problem is said to have been fixed because wireless adapters may not be able to connect to 5GHz networks.
[German]Microsoft's gaming service Xbox Live has been disrupted since about 10 p.m. (Feb. 25, 2021), with the disruption continuing on Feb. 26, 2021, but already subsiding.
[German]Microsoft has updated several security advisories as of Feb. 25, 2021. These range from an Exchange spoofing vulnerability to Python Extension RCE in Visual Studio.
[German]Adobe had to ship another update for Adobe Acrobat and Reader DC, after a recent hotfix corrected a bug (see Adobe Reader/Acrobat DC Hotfix 21.001.20138 fixes install error 1722), followed by bug fix version 20140.
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[German]Brief information for administrators and power users in the Windows 10 environment. It was announced for a long time, but now it seems the time has come: Redmond has now started to integrate SSUs into Update for Windows 10 for the first time.
[German]As of February 24, 2021, Microsoft has released another cumulative (preview) update KB4601382 for Windows 10, version 2004, 20H2 (and Insider version 21H1) as well as its Windows Server counterparts. Here's an overview of the update in question.
[German]VMware warns its users about critical RCE vulnerabilities in the vSphere HTML5 Client and other products. Security updates are now available for the affected products.
[German]he developers of the email client Thunderbird have released Thunderbird 78.8.0 on February 23, 2021. It is a maintenance update for the 78 main version of the email client, which fixes bugs and closes vulnerabilities.
[German]After the end of Flash support, a Flash player is offered on a website In China that behaves like adware and opens browser windows to display advertisements. This case, revealed by security researchers, proves how risky downloading software from unofficial sites has become, even if they read flash[.]cn.
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