[German]Microsoft has released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20231 for Windows Insider in the Developer Channel on October 7, 2020. A customized installation with some Insiders is also tested. In addition, this Windows 10 Build is available for download as an ISO installation image.
[German]Google released a new update of the Google Chrome browser for the desktop (Linux, macOS, Windows) on October 6, 2020, which raises the browser to version 86.0.4240.75. It is a major update to the 86 branch, which closes 35 vulnerabilities in addition to bug fixes.
[German]One more short note. The developers of the e-mail client Thunderbird have released version 78.3.2 of the e-mail client on October 7, 2020. This is a maintenance update for the 78 main version of the e-mail client.
[German]On October 6, 2020 (first Tuesday of the month, Office Patchday) Microsoft released several non-security updates for versions of Microsoft Office that are still supported. Here is a brief overview.
[German]A story that brings tears to your eyes. Security researchers have discovered that the Cellmate chastity lock for men is hackable. It can be closed by hackers forever, no way back. Eh man, have a bolt cutter…
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[English]Interesting story – a security researcher has developed a tool called Raccine as a simple protection against ransomware. This should prevent ransomware or other malware from deleting the volume shadow copies on Windows NTFS drives.
[German]Security researchers from Kaspersky have discovered malicious code in the UEFI installed on the motherboard of devices at customer sites. The malicious code was part of a larger malware framework called Kaspersky MosaicRegressor.
[German]I'll summarize two security topics in this blog post. Microsoft has presented the Digital Defense Report. And there is an approach to hunt for exploits by searching for the author's fingerprints.
[German]Strange observation of a blog-reader, which I will discuss here. It's about the telnet function, which can be installed as an optional feature. The program was suddenly gone and could only be found as a copy in a cache. Here are some details about what it is all about.
[English]Another short addendum from last week. The developers of the e-mail client Thunderbird released version 68.12.1 of the e-mail client on October 1, 2020. This is a maintenance update for the 68 main version of the e-mail client, which was offered to me today.
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