Chrome will stop resource-heavy Ads

Posted on 2020-05-16 by guenni

[German]The Chrome developers want to stop advertising that consumes too many browser resources in the Chrome browser. The ads will then simply be stopped and unloaded.

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.NET-Framework Update KB4556399 throws install error 643

Posted on 2020-05-16 by guenni

win7[German]The .NET framework update KB4556399 from May 12, 2020 fails for some Windows 7 users users with an installation error 643. Most of this affected are using the unofficial BypassESU solution from MDL.

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WSUS error during feature update to Windows 10 V190x

Posted on 2020-05-15 by guenni

[German]Administrators who use WSUS to deploy a feature update to Windows 10 V190x reports that this fails with error codes such as 0x80070057 or 0xc1900298. There are now two different cases that have come to my attention or have been reported by readers.

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Windows Server 2019: Font install per User or system wide?

Posted on 2020-05-15 by guenni

[German]Small surprise for me, but probably known by administrators for a long time. On Windows Server 2019 fonts are always installed 'per user' and not system-wide. This seems to be the case since Windows 10 version 1803.

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Outlook Search broken since last Update, Fix available?

Posted on 2020-05-15 by guenni

[German]Since May 5, 2020, some users of Microsoft Outlook have been suffering from the fact that the search does not work. A connection with the Office updates is suspected. Actually Microsoft should have rolled out a fix since 13 May 2020.

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

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News on the ransomware attack on Ludwigshafen supplier

Posted on 2020-05-15 by guenni

[German]New information about the attack by clop ransomware group on the energy supplier of Ludwigshafen, Technische Werke Ludwigshafen (TWL), has become public. Customer data was stolen in the ransomware attack and has now been published.

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Tabs grouping comes in Google Chrom browser

Posted on 2020-05-14 by guenni

[German]Google's developers startet to support grouping tabs in Chrome browser. The new feature is available in beta and will to be rolled out step by step to the users of the browser.

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Windows Print-Spooler: Exploit for CVE-2020-1048

Posted on 2020-05-14 by guenni

[German]There is a CVE-2020-1048 vulnerability in Windows print spooler that could allow malicious software to gain elevated privileges. But a patch is available since May 12, 2020, and there are a few restriction to misuse that flaw. Here is a brief overview what to know, including a discussion, how critical the vulnerability is.

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Security incident at the Santander Bank website in Belgium

Posted on 2020-05-14 by guenni

[German]At the Belgian subsidiary of the Spanish Santander bank, a misconfigured web server enabled the indexing of the stored files. When inspecting this data, security researchers from Cybernews came across sensitive material in the form of SQL dumps and JSON files. An API key would have allowed certain files in a CDN to be exchanged.

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No more 32-bit Windows 10 from V2004 on new devices

Posted on 2020-05-14 by guenni

[German]It looks like the 32-bit version of Windows 10 is dying slowly. On new devices shipped with Windows 10 2004, the operating system only will be a 64-bit installation.

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