Thunderbird 78.3.2 released

[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.

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Microsoft Office Patchday (October 6, 2020)

[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.

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Outsch: Cellmate 'chastity lock cock-up' hackable – forever locked …

[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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Raccine: Protect volume shadow copies from ransomware

[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.

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MosaicRegressor: An UEFI malware

[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

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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Security: Microsoft Digital Defense Report, Exploit Author Fingerprint

[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.

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Windows 10: Has Telnet been removed as a feature?

[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.

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Thunderbird 68.12.1 released

[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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Windows 10: Disable Bing in the search

[German]If you are annoyed by the Bing search in the Windows 10 start menu search, you can turn it off. For this purpose a registry key is available, which can be set via group policy or directly as an entry. Here are a few hints and a look at the facts and some explanation, why many internet tutorials don't always work.

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Office: Instabilities/crashes due to C2R and MSI parallel installation?

[German]A short note for administrators who try to run Office modules in their environment both as Click-n-Run and MSI installations. This can lead to unstable Office installations, as I just learned from feedback from blog readers.

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