[German]Just a short information: The website askwoody.com will get a 'change of it's head'. Woody Leonhard, who has been running the project for many years, is stepping down and putting the site into new hands.
[German]The team of still US President Donald Trump has set up a website where people can report alleged election fraud for a law suite. A hot story, has among other things the flaw that the website probably leaked the data of US voters.
[German]Let's Encrypt currently warns that its (old) root certificate will expire on September 1, 2021. There are successor certificates, but older software may have problems. In particular, Android devices prior to 7.1.1 will eventually not be able to access https websites if they are secured with Let's Encrypt certificates.
[German]Prestige Software, an international B2B hotel reservation platform whose clients include Expedia and Booking.com, has disclosed the data of hundreds of thousands of guests of its affiliated hotel chains in a privacy incident. I
[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.
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[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.
[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.
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