[German]There was an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability (CVE-2020-16908) in the Windows setup process, which Microsoft has addressed as of October 13, 2020. The vulnerability has been fixed by updating the setup for Windows 10 version 1903 and 2004 (relevant for WSUS and ConfigMgr).
[German]In a few days or weeks the autumn 2020 update of Windows 10 will be unleashed on people. The exciting question would be what the part should really be called then – because at Microsoft there is a Babylonian language confusion.
Occasionally it would be nice to have your router undergo a security check. An appropriate test page that you can visit should do this. Here is a short info about such a page.
[German]Microsoft's online services Exchange Online (incident: EX224266 dated October 8, 2020), as well as OneDrive for Business in conjunction with SharePoint Online (incident OD224379 dated October 16, 2020) were/are affected by a malfunction. Brief overview of the information provided by Microsoft.
[German]The developers of the Thunderbird e-mail client have released version 78.3.3 of the e-mail client on October 16, 2020. This is a maintenance update for the 78 main version of the e-mail client, which fixes bugs in the OpenPGP area.
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[English]ACROS Security has released a micropatch for the vulnerabilityC VE-2020-1062 (Internet Explorer scripting engine memory corruption ) for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 (without ESU license). This is the second micropatch for the Internet Explorer scripting engine besides CVE-2020-1380.
[German]Microsoft has released a patch to close the RCE vulnerability CVE-2020-17022 in the Windows Codecs Library on October 15, 2020. Because there was some confusion (the vulnerability only affects some Windows 10 users with HVCE codecs) and the patch is coming via the store, I'm pulling this out in a separate blog post.
[German]Are HP business notebooks with Windows 10 2004 are having currently issues with HP Sure Recover? I have just come across a case in connection with an HP Elitebook and HP Sure Recover that raises questions. Here is a short summary of what I have just come across.
Microsoft has released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20236.1005 for Windows Insider on the Developer Channel as of October 16, 2020. The whole thing comes as update KB4587587, as you can see in the addendum in the Windows blog. here are no changes, the update is used to test the servicing pipeline for updates.
[German]On October 2020 Microsoft has re-released a whole bunch of .NET framework updates that were already released in July 2020. Since some users mentioned old .NET Framework updates within comments, here's a short summary of what's going on.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
