[German] HP announced recently the end of lifetime Free HP Instant Ink subscription for customers. The Free Instant Ink offer was dedicated to customers with low print volume. After a lot of protest from customers, the program will continue at least for existing customers, but will end for new customers.
[German]In my blog post Windows 7 SP1: ESU Support for 2021 – Part 1 I had pointed out that from January 2021 a new ESU license is required to receive further security updates for this operating system. Those who do not have an ESU license (e.g. private users) or do not get it (e.g. because of Windows 7 Home or Windows Server 2008/R2) can use alternative solutions, which I present in part 2.
to all my blog readers. And always remember: In 365 days it will be Christmas again.
[German]ACROS Security has released a micropatch for the CVE-2020-1013 (WSUS Spoofing, Local Privilege Escalation in Group Policies) vulnerability for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 (without ESU license). Here is some information about it.
[German]Small reminder for people still running systems with Windows 7 SP1. In January 2021 the support extension for the second year ends. So a little reminder today to renew the ESU license – and I've found a source that offers ESU license keys for 2021.
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[German]Security researchers have proven that a vulnerability patched in Windows in July 2020 is still exploitable. The patch does not close a vulnerability sufficiently, so there is another way to exploit it.
[German]Microsoft published two blog posts from its Detection and Response Team (DART). The posts include advice for incident responders on recovering from systemic identity compromises (after Solarigate) and what to do if infected with the Sunburst Trojan.
[German]Law enforcement officials have seized and shut down, in an international collaboration, VPN services that provided safe havens for cybercriminals. The VPN services were used to conduct ransomware attacks, web skimming operations, spearphishing and account takeovers.
[German]Brief information and a question to the Citrix NetScaler administrators. Are you noticing increased UDP:443 (EDT) access to Citrix Netscaler gateway? Currently there is information that a massive DDoS campaign against Citrix NetScaler gateways has been running since December 19, 2020.
[German]In the consumer sector, intelligent doorbell cameras have been davertised and have also been bought heavily. Now someone has taken a closer look at some of these "doorbells" from security aspects … and found the expected results.
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2013 – 2016
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