[German]There is an unpatched vulnerability in the GO SMS Pro app that exposes publicy voice messages, videos or photos sent between users. The developer has been contacted without success.
US state and federal authorities are reportedly preparing for an antitrust case against Facebook. The background is Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram. CNet has summarized some information in this article.
[German]Microsoft has published further special updates for various Windows Server versions as of November 19, 2020. These are intended to fix the problems with Kerberos authentication of ticket renewals on domain controllers for the operating system versions concerned.
[German]Short addition to a topic, which is already some days here on the agenda. Microsoft has also released security updates for Exchange Server 2013 to 2019 on November 10, 2020.
[German]Is Microsoft Teams slow on your computer? Does it take endless to launch Teams? Does the CPU load and memory consumption in Microsoft Team sessions go to new heights? Welcome to the new Microsoft world. But there are workarounds that may help reduce these issues.
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[German]How does cyber espionage work exactly? Security researchers at Bitdefender have examined a complex chain of attacks by APT hackers and describe the anatomy of such a cyber attack by an APT on Southeast Asian authorities.
Microsoft has released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20262 (FE_RELEASE) for Windows Insider in the Developer Channel on November 11, 2020. It is a re-release to 20257.1 and was announced in the Windows blog, where you can read about fixes and known problems (there are no new features).
[German]ACROS Security has released a micropatch for the CVE-2020-1300C (RCE) vulnerability for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 (without ESU license). Here is some information about this micropatch.
[German]The developers of the e-mail client Thunderbird released Thunderbird 78.5.0 on November 17, 2020. This is a security update for the 78 main version of the e-mail client, which fixes bugs and closes vulnerabiblities.
[German]The developers of the Tor bundle released Tor Browser 10.0.5 as a bundle on November 17, 2020. I just got the update delivered automatically. The update brings Firefox 78.5.0esr and Tor to 0.4.4.6 and fixes Bug 40212: Add new default obfs4 bridge [tor-browser]. The Tor Browser 10.0.5 is available for free on several platforms from the download page.
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