[German]Another small addendum from last week. Microsoft has announced it's plans to include the required Servicing Stack Updates (SSU) in future Latest Cumulative Updates (LCU). This could eliminate one cause of update errors.
[German]Security update KB4577015, dated September 8, 2020, causes problems on Windows Server 2016, which acts as the domain controller. The Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) throws a wsecedit.dll error when loading an MMC snap-in when changing security options.
[German]There is once again a data leak to report, but it is likely to be minor for those affected – because security researchers have discovered the data leak. The marketing company Mailfire acting on Cyprus revealed data of over 70 eCommerce and adult sides.
[German]A German blog reader contacted me for an observation. He has been getting for weeks more and more messages from users in his enterprise network with Windows Server 2012, that Office documents sporadically cannot be stored on network shares. On the clients Windows 10 version 1909 is used. After tests he suspects that updates could cause the issue.
[German]Short information I just came across on Twitter. The operators of the search engine Shodan have published a chrome extension that shows open ports of visited websites. .
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[German]A reverse engineer bumped a vulnerability in Windows 10 in conjunction with the Hyper-V/Sandbox feature. Activating Hyper-V or the sandbox opens a 0-day vulnerability that can be used to attack the system.
[German]A small reminder for users of Windows 10 version 1903, which was released in spring 2019 and reaches the end of its 18-month support period on December 8, 2020.
[German]Short question to administrators who are still using Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC V1607 or Windows Server 2016 Will the Event Viewer be flooded with Event ID 5827 entries when Update KB4571694 from August 11, 2020 is installed? I already had this topic in my blog, now a blog reader has fallen into the trap. The problem is that the changes requested by Microsoft are not possible via MMC. A DLL is suddenly broken and generates errors.
[German]Microsoft has released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20211.1005 as an update (KB4581021 for Windows Insider in the Dev Channel. Addendum:The build has been pulled. Continue reading
[German]Microsoft has updated the Chromium Edge Browser to version 85.0.564.51 on September 9, 2020. According to ADV200002 this version fixes a number of critical vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-6574, CVE-2020-6575, CVE-2020-6576, CVE-2020-15959. The browser is based on Chromium version 85.0.4183.102 and should update automatically. The release notes for this version do not details anything else.
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