[German]Microsoft's Windows 10 version 1903, released in spring 2019, has now reached the end of support. Systems still running this Windows 10 version will now be migrated to newer Windows 10 versions in unmanaged environments.
[German]The Microsoft 365 security team points out a malware campaign called Adrozek. The malware targets popular browsers such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, etc. and tries to manipulate the browser in such a way that advertisements are played during a search. Through this approach, those behind it try to generate revenue. Europe seems to be particularly affected.
[German]The gaming platform Steam have had serious vulnerabilities. Security researchers from Check Point have discovered that attackers can exploit the bugs found to repeatedly crash a player's session. Taking over a victim's computer or infecting all other computers connected to a third-party server are probably also possible. Valve has issued a patch, but 3rd party games may be vulnerable.
[German]A security researcher from NetSPI, who discovered the Kerberos authentication vulnerability CVE-2020-17049, has now published the details as well as an exploit. Anyone running an affected environment on Windows Server should react and patch now at the latest.
[German]Note for people running Sophos firewalls or similar with Cyberoam OS. Sophos has deployed a hotfix for its Cyberoam firewalls and routers to address an SQL injection vulnerability.
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[German]Microsoft has published some notes about security updates and revisions on December 8 and again on December 10, 2020. I am posting them here on the blog without comment.
[German]Microsoft has released not one but two Insider Preview builds, the 20277 and the 21277, of Windows 10 in the Dev Channel for testing on December 10, 2020. Here's some information.
[German]The Bundeskartellamt (German Federal Cartel Office) has initiated an investigation against Facebook. The goal is to examine the linkage between Oculus virtual reality products and the social network and Facebook platform for a possible abuse.
[German]With the December 2020 updates, Microsoft is making another attempt to use a layered approach to address the new Kerberos vulnerability CVE-2020-16996 in Active Directory Domain Controllers (DCs). This is stated in a support article published on December 8, 2020.
[German]Microsoft released version 0.27.1 of PowerToys a few hours ago as a bug-fix update for Windows 10 users. This should improve the stability and quality of the tools. These tools are free and offer additional features for Windows 10.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
