[German]Will individuals and schools soon be able to keep their old Windows computers running Google's Chrome OS? That's what an acquisition on Google's part, which just came to my attention, suggests.
[German]Security researchers from IBM Trusteer have openly lived a large-scale fraud campaign. Those behind it were able to steal millions from banks in the US and EU using cell phone emulator farms.
[German]Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has issued a security advisory. There is a critical vulnerability (0-day bug) in HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM) that affects Linux and Windows versions.
[German]Small additions in the matter of hacking of companies and US authorities by the SUNBURST malware delivered via update for the Orion software. There is an analysis tool SolarFlare, to determine what permissions the Orion software had. The domain of the hackers with the C&C server has been taken over – Microsoft and FireEye have established 'a killswitch'. And the software Einstein, which was developed at a cost of billions, did not notice anything about this hack.
[German]An analysis of the supply chain attack on the Orion product line of the US security vendor SolarWinds suggests that the attackers had access to the source code base. For months, they prepared the insertion of the Trojan, which acted as a backdoor, and injected it into the source code.
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[German]Another topic I like to cover. With the update KB4586853 for Windows 10 2004 and 20H2, Microsoft also addressed the bug that caused bluescreens on Thunderbolt NVMe SSD units. The upgrade block has therefore been lifted as of December 11, 2020.
[German]Microsoft has published an overview of revisions of various CVEs as of December 15, 2020. I received the whole thing by mail last night, and I'm posting it here for your information.
[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.
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