[German]A warning for owners of an HP printer. The company Hewlett Packard (HP) is once again distributing printer firmware that prevents the use of third-party cartridges for both HP inkjet and HP laser printers. Here are a few information what I found out so far.
[German]Microsoft is probably 'slipped out' several updates for Windows 10 prematurely to WSUS. Because there is nothing in the Microsoft Update Catalog yet, and support articles are still not available. I guess it's the updates for Nov. patchday.
[German]Interesting offer from ACROS Security. The security vendor has just announced to support Microsoft Office 2010 with 0patch micro patches to eliminate known security vulnerabilities even after the support expires on October 2020.
[German]The Italian spirits producer Campari Group has fallen victim to a Ragnar Locker ransomware infection. Some systems of the Campari Group had to be restored after the files were encrypted.
[German]Besides the lsass.exe crash problem (see Windows 10 2004/20H2 lsass.exe crash issue (Oct. 2020) confirmed), Microsoft has confirmed another problem with Windows 10. After upgrading to Windows 10 version 2004 or version 20H2, plugging in a Thunderbolt NVMe SSD may trigger a BlueScreen.
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[German]The developers of the e-mail client Thunderbird released Thunderbird 78.4.1 on November 6, 2020. It is a maintenance update for the 78 main version of the e-mail client, which fixes some bugs.
[German]In Windows 10 20H2 (and 2004), the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (lsass.exe) crashes for some users in certain constellations (mostly after upgrading from Windows 7). Now Microsoft has published details about this bug and the reason for the crashes.
[German]I take the topic again. Does Microsoft Defender show defined scan exclusions under Windows 10? Or is the GUI bug I mentioned in this blog still present after Defender updates?
[German]Apple has just released iOS 12.4.9 for older devices (from 2013 onwards, which will no longer get an update to iOS 14). This update contains security updates for this operating system version. Details can be found here. Additionally, iOS 14.2 has been released for newer Apple devices. Apple has disclosed the details of the fixes in this support article.
[German]The day before yesterday I had reported about a strange event. A balance of nearly $1 billion was withdrawn from a Bitcoin account. What looked like a hack now turned out to be a seizure action by the US government.
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