[German]The knowledge about the cyber attack against US authorities and companies via the SUNBURST backdoor is growing. The U.S. State Department and other government agencies may have been hacked as well. Meanwhile, Microsoft and other industry partners have seized the domain with the C&C server and hope to be able to track down infected systems.
[German]Mozilla's developer have released version 84.0.0 and 78.6.0 ESR of the Firefox browser as of December 15, 2020. These are new development branches for the browser. Here is an overview of the new features.
[German]The developers of the Thunderbird email client have released Thunderbird 78.6.0 on December 15, 2020. This is a maintenance update for the 78 main version of the email client, which fixes bugs and closes security holes.
[German]Was sloppiness or at least a lax security culture at the US software manufacturer SolarWinds possibly responsible for their compromised updates of the Orion products, that has been shipped for months with the SUNBURST Trojan? This Trojan has been used to hack numerous US government agencies and the security vendor FireEye in recent months. Here is a look into a security abyss …
Microsoft has released Windows 10 Insider Preview build 20279 for Windows Insiders in the Developer Channel as of December 14, 2020. This build is largely identical to build 20277, which was released on December 10, 2020. Microsoft wants to test upgrade options to other builds. Windows Insiders who upgraded to build 21277 (RS_PRERELEASE) will not be offered this build because they are on a newer build. The announcement was made on the Windows blog, where you can read about fixes and known issues, as well as other details.
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[German]Windows 10 20H2 administrators using VMware ThinApp should beware. I have received feedback from users that after installing update KB4592438, VMware ThinApps no longer starts. Here's an overview, what I know so far.
Security Researchers from Website Planet found, that an UK Tax Relief Company Exposes Customers' Personal Information due to a misconfigured web server. Here are a few details about this Data Leak.
[German]Suspected state hackers have succeeded in tampering with SolarWinds' widely deployed networking and security products worldwide. Through a supply chain attack, a Trojan or the SunBurst backdoor was rolled out with a software update.
[German]According to a report, the U.S. Treasury Department and another U.S. agency responsible for Internet and telecommunications have fallen victim to a sophisticated cyber attack. Suspected government hackers were able to pull documents. Addendum: It seems, that a backdoor in Solarwinds' products was the vulnerability used for the hacks.
[German]Users of iPhones running iOS 14 are complaining that they are not getting notifications for incoming SMS text or iMessages messages. This appears to be a bug in iOS 14 that can also affect notifications from other apps.
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