[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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[German]Microsofthas additionally released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20241 for Windows Insider in the Developer Channel on October 21, 2020, one day after the deployment of Windows 10 20H2. The announcement was made in the Windows Blog, where the list of new features, fixes and known issues can be found.
[German]Mozilla's developers have released version 82.0.0 and the 78.4.0 ISR of the Firefox browser on October 20, 2020. This is a new development branch of the browser, which brings some innovations, fixes bugs and closes some vulnerabilities rated as high.
[German]Google has updated the Google Chrome Browser to version 86.0.4240.111 on October 20, 2020. This update resolves a 0-day vulnerability CVE-2020-15999 in the FreeType library (also in other software products such as Linux), which is already exploited.
[German]On October 20, 2020, Microsoft released several cumulative updates as optionally installable previews for Windows 10 versions 1809 to 1909. In Windows 10 version 190x, the preview update anchors the Skype Lite blend Meet Now in the taskbar. Additionally, the preview updates correct some annoying problems like disappearing USB printers or the flickering of the screen caused by the last October update. Here are some details about the respective updates.
[German]Microsoft has released the Windows 10 October 2020 Update (Version 20H2) for download on October 20, 2020 (C-Week). It is the so-called autumn update for Windows 10 Version 2004.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
