[German]Microsoft has released a PowerShell script package that allows installation images of Windows 10 and Windows Server to already have an updated Microsoft Defender. This should reduce the vulnerability of a new installation.
[German]The Emotet malware is distributed via spam email campaigns. A free service now makes it possible to check whether an email address has already been abused in such a campaign.
[German]Small message to Windows 10 users: Microsoft informed us, that the development of the Office Lense-App for Windows 10 will be stopped at the end of 2020.
[German]The HP Device Manager used to manage HP thin clients seems to have a backdoor in some versions in the form of a preconfigured user account in a database. This puts the underlying Windows at risk, because ist could be used by attackers to take control of the system.
[German]Brief information for people who still use Internet Explorer (mainly concerns company administrators). Malware has been discovered that exploits the Internet Explorer vulnerability CVE-2020-0968. Microsoft has issued a patch for it since April 2020.
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[German]Mozilla's developers have released updates to the version 81.0.1, the Firefox browser, as well as the 783.1 esr, on October 1, 2020. These are maintenance updates, which are intended to fix bugs.
[German]Microsoft has released after tests with Windows Insiders (see this blog post) cumulative update KB4577063 for the Windows 10 May 2020 Update (Version 2004) The update is also available for Windows Insider for Windows 10 20H2.
[German]Trend Micro has released patch 2245 for his Worry Free Business Security 10.0 SP1 (TM WFBS 10.0 SP1) for Windows 10. Here is some information about it.
[German]In September 2020 the news about a leak of the source code of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 made the rounds trough the media. It looks like the code really is from Microsoft. A developer has succeeded in compiling a copy of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 from these source codes. But it turned out that the source code of Windows XP is incomplete.
[German]As far as I know only 32-bit x86 applications could be emulated under Windows on ARM so far. In a new blog post, Panos Panay has now announced that support for 64-bit emulation of x86 applications in Windows on ARM will be added. From November 2020 on, this emulation will be rolled out experimentally in the Windows Insider program.
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2013 – 2016
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