[German]After installing cumulative October 2020 updates, various Windows 10 versions forget their certificates when upgrading to a higher Build. A blog-reader has pointed out the topic to me and I will summarize the information in this separate post.
[German]Windows 10 users may receive the error code 0x000001F7 or 0x80131500 when trying to open the Microsoft Store on Windows 10. They will also receive the message 'Try again'.
[English]There has been a data leak incident at Amazon. Amazon employees have passed customer data, including their e-mail addresses, to third parties. The employees were fired and the affected customers were informed. I came across the issue in two places at once – here is some information.
[German]The provider Nitro PDF has experienced a massive data breach where cyber criminals have been able to stole data from customers. They are now selling the captured data in underground forums. This has implications for many high-profile organizations, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Chase and Citibank, whose documents appear in the records.
[German]Microsoft currently throttles the broad rollout for Windows 10 October 2020 Update (20H2) and partially sets upgrade blockers for machines. There are also some known bugs in this new Windows 10 version.
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[English]With the October 2020 patchday, the end of support for various Windows and Office products is approaching, which will soon no longer receive updates. Here is a brief overview of which products are no longer supported or have already reached the end of life.
Docker container security means that users must set the correct environment variables on the management host so that image signatures can be verified by Docker commands. Trend Micro describes how to verify container images in this article.
A small note to adminswho manage their updates via WSUS in Enterprise environments. Colleague Susan Bradley makes a small survey about the satisfaction with the WSUS. Maybe one or the other administrator will participate. Susan will publish the results in a few days.
[German]Nvidia recently had to release a security update for an application for its GeForce Experience driver package. The update fixed a security hole that was classified as critical.
[English]Small addendum: Oracles developers have already released Virtualbox version 6.1.16 on October 16, 2020. It is a maintenance update which should fix bugs of earlier versions.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
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2017 – 2020
