Linux Mint: Chromium back in the repository

Posted on 2020-11-02 by guenni

[German]The head of the Mint project, Clem Lefebvre, announced in the October 2020 news that the Chromium browser (base of Google Chrome) has now been added to the official repositories for both Linux Mint and LMDE (package name in Linux Mint and LMDE is "chromium"). To ensure timely updates, the process of detecting, packaging and assembling new versions of Chrome has been automated (for this purpose a new build server has been procured to go from 6 hours to 1 hour build time).  (via)

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AI to solve partial differential equations

Posted on 2020-11-02 by guenni

[German]Well, it's been 41 years since I was working the last time with partial differential equations – never used again since my university time – and the majority of my blog readers won't work in this field. But it is already an exciting topic. Most of the time, super-computers are used on something like this to find solutions. Researchers at Caltech have now used artificial intelligence (AI) for a deep learning method to solve partial differential equations better or faster and have been successful (about 1,000 times faster). The original work can be found here, a review article can be found here. Maybe someone can use it. Otherwise have a good start into this week.

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NSA list of the Top 25 Cyber Threats

Posted on 2020-11-02 by guenni

[German]Cyber criminals are successfully attacking businesses, administration and organizations and successfully exploiting vulnerabilities for these actions. The American intelligence service NSA has published a list of the most frequently used attack vectors, exploits and malware by Chinese hacker groups. It might be interesting to take a look at this list, which I received through Check Point, the provider of cyber security solutions.

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Addendum: Microsoft Security Advisories October 2020

Posted on 2020-11-01 by guenni

[German]Small addendum from October 2020: Microsoft had published some security advices for security updates. They have been left here, I will post them here for security reasons.

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Microsoft confirms certificate loss on Windows 10 upgrades

Posted on 2020-11-01 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has now officially confirmed the certificate problem, which I already mentioned here in the blog, as of October 30, 2020 and has given details of when certificates will be lost during a Windows 10 function update.

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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Emotet malware comes as a supposed Word update

Posted on 2020-11-01 by guenni

[German]A brief warning: The criminals behind the emotet malware are now distributing this malware via a mail attachment that appears as a supposed Word update. Microsoft warns about that.

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Windows Kernel 0-day vulnerability used in the wild

Posted on 2020-10-31 by guenni

[German]Cybercriminals use an exploit chain to attack a patched 0-day vulnerability in the chrome browser (Edge) and an unpatched 0-day vulnerability in the Windows kernel. The vulnerability has just been disclosed by Google Project Zero.

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WordPress 5.5.2, and 5.5.3 as bux fix released

Posted on 2020-10-31 by guenni

The developers have released WordPress 5.5.2 as a security and maintenance update on October 29, 2020. In this version 14 bugs are fixed, which are described in the release notes. The update fixes a critical vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to take over a page via a denial of service attack (see also). So you should update as soon as possible – here the blogs were updated immediately after release. Addenum: On October 30, 2020 WordPress 5.5.3 has been released as a bug fix update.

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Microsoft Edge available as update KB4584642 for WSUS

Posted on 2020-10-31 by guenni

Edge[German]Short note for for administrators in enterprise environments who want to use the new Chromium-Edge Browser. Microsoft made Microsoft Edge now available as update KB4584642 for WSUS. Here are a few details.

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Windows 10 20H2: lsass.exe crashes (Oct. 2020)

Posted on 2020-10-31 by guenni

[German]In Windows 10 20H2 some users may experiencethat the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service file (lsass.exe) crashes in certain constellations. Here is a short overview of what I have seen so far – combined with the question if there are other people affected. Addendum: Root cause known, link to a follow up article added.

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