[German]The French IT company Sopra Steria, to which, for example, large parts of the IT of the National Health System (NHS) in Great Britain have been transferred, has fallen victim to a Ryuk ransomware attack. If the information I have is correct, an Active Directory domain controller was taken over via the Zerologon vulnerability, allowing the ransomware to spread on the service provider's IT network.
[German]Microsoft has updated the Chromium-based Edge Browser to version 86.0.622.51 on Oct. 22, 2020. This is a security update which closes serious vulnerabilities.
[German]For users who already use Windows 10 20H2, Microsoft will soon release the first update. Currently (Oct. 22, 2020) update KB4580364 is being tested with Windows insiders in the Release Preview Channel and in the Beta Channel (for Windows 10 2004 and 20H2).
[German]Another small addendum to the Internet Explorer, whose farewell has begun step by step. Starting November 13, 2020, support for Microsoft accounts and Microsoft apps will be dropped. Here is some information on the topic.
[German]Another small note for Firefox users. German blog reader Martin G. has pointed out an annoying issues with Firefox that affects sessions where the user is logged into online accounts. The automatic login doesn't work after revoking a machine from suspended state.
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[German]Chinese vendor Lenovo has just stopped selling all computers (notebooks, desktop PCs and tablets) in Germany. The reason is a patent dispute with the Finnish company Nokia about licenses to use the video codec H.264 and a preliminary injunction. Lenovo does not own these licenses.
[German]Users of the Google Chrome browser or its chromium derivatives (Google Chrome, Edge etc.), as well as Firefox and Safari, should check whether the extensions Nano Adblocker or Nano Defender and other components from the Nano project are installed. If so, remove these extensions, because the project has been sold and the new (Turkish) developers have obviously started to integrate malicious functions that extract data.
[German]The developers of the e-mail client Thunderbird have released Thunderbird 78.4.0 almost a week after version 78.3.0. It is a maintenance update for the 78 main version of the e-mail client, which fixes some bugs.
On October 21, 2020 Oracle released numerous updates for various products as part of its quarterly October patchday. In the process, 402 bugs and security vulnerabilities were eliminated. Some of them are considered critical, as they can be exploited without authentication.
[German]Microsoft has begun a gradual departure from Internet Explorer. IE 11 now redirects incompatible web pages to the Microsoft Chromium Edge so that they are opened in this browser. Here is some information on this topic.
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