[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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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[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.
[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.
[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.
[German]The .NET Framework updates KB4598301 (Jan. 2021) and KB4598299 (Feb. 2021) are proving to be a problem for some users, causing crashes (STATUS_FATAL_USER_CALLBACK_EXCEPTION) in WPF applications built with Visual Studio.
[German]Today or tomorrow, Tuesday, ACROS Security plans to release a 0patch fix for a 0-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The patch is currently in testing. Addendum: The Micropatch has been released on February 11, 2021.
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