[German]Another short addendum from last week. Microsoft has published a security advisory for Dynaics 365 for November 2020 as of November 10, 2020, which I will post here briefly for your information.
[German]In Windows 10 some people have the problem that Defender does not show defined exclusions in the GUI. This should be fixed by Defender updates, but did not work for all of them. One person concerned has now sent me his fix for the problem. I added a fix in the blog post Windows 10: Is the Defender GUI bug hiding defined exclusions fixed?
[Germany]Microsoft makes public the discovery of three hacker groups (APTs) from North Korea and Russia. The three state-sponsored hacker groups (APTs) are responsible for attacks on at least seven companies developing a COVID 19 vaccine or treatments. The hacker groups (APTs) are Russia's strontium (Fancy Bear) and North Korea's zinc (Lazarus Group) and cerium.
[German]In the coronavirus pandemic, projects to switch to a new IT solution are often postponed. SAP's R/3 system is not due to be phased out until 2027. CNT Management Consulting GmbH has shown me some aspects why enterprises should soon upgrade to the new S/4HANA software generation despite the coronavirus pandemic. I do not want to withhold this from the readers who are involved in this area.
[German]On November 13, 2020, Microsoft has published a security advisory that refers to another security update of the Edge Browser. Microsoft had to close two vulnerabilities that were unpatched in Edge 86.0.622.68. Here is some brief information about this.
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[German]Even though cybercriminals are using increasingly sophisticated attack techniques to penetrate corporate networks, hackers often have an easy time of it. Security breaches are often due to avoidable, often overlooked misconfigurations.
[German]In early November 2020, Adobe released a major security update for Adobe Acrobat/Adobe Reader DC. However, there are problems on SAP systems because displaying PDF documents in SAP software leads to long loading times or crashes. Addendum: Group Policy to disable the Protected Mode specified – so it works again.
[German]If you want to continue to have security updates for Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 in 2021, you need the ESU package for the second year. Microsoft has been clarifying a few things about this topic over the days.
[German]Users of the Microsoft e-mail service outlook.com are currently plagued by an annoying problem. If they delete a mail in their inbox, it will reappear as unread in their inbox shortly afterwards. Here is a brief overview of this issue and the question of who is affected.
[German]The manufacturer of anti-virus products, Avira, has surprisingly discontinued its product line for enterprise customers. On November 1, 2022, the products concerned will reach the end of support (end-of-life), which may come as a surprise to some users.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
