[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…
[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.
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[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.
[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.
[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.
[German]What about the performance of new versions of Microsoft Office? Every new version has a bigger foot print and feels more sluggish. I have just seen an interesting evaluation of VMware for Office in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments that confirms this impression and I would like to share it with you.
[German]Cisco has already released critical security updates for its network operating system IOS XR on September 29, 2020. The updates close two vulnerabilities in the products that are classified as critical. It should therefore be patched as soon as possible.
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