[German]ACROS Security has released a micropatch for the vulnerability CVE-2020-1472 (Zerologon) for Windows Server 2008 R2. This vulnerability is only closed by Microsoft starting with Windows Server 2012 R2.
[German]The cyber attack on the University Hospital Düsseldorf (UKD) last week turns out to be a ransomware attack, as I suspected. The clinic was probably a random victim, but now the public prosecutor's office is investigating, since a patient died because of the attack on the clinic. And there is a first information about the vulnerability – probably the Shitrix vulnerability known from December 2019 in a Citrix VPN endpoint.
[German]Bad news for Mac users who use Parallels virtualization software in macOS to test Windows 10 Insider Preview builds. Parallels Standard no longer supports Windows 10 Insider Previews in the Beta Channel because the manufacturer has secretly removed a required feature.
[German]The time has come, Microsoft has integrated a notifcation bar, that indicates the end of Flash support, when using Internet Explorer in Windows 10 during visiting Flash pages.
[German]In addition to the preview updates for Windows 10 (see Windows 10 V1809/190x: Preview Updates (September 16, 2020))), Microsoft has also released various preview updates for the .NET Framework as of September 16, 2020.
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[German]Users of the Microsoft Outlook desktop app complain that the family calendar function has suddenly disappeared. The reason: Someone has crashed at Microsoft and did not implement the function. Microsoft has now confirmed that they are working on a solution (see also Outlook App: Family Calendar missing).
[German]Microsoft has released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20215 for Windows Insider on the Dev Channel on September 15, 2020. The announcement was made in the Windows-Blog, where you can read the list of new features, fixes and known issues. Microsoft has now added a dark theme to the search.
[German]On September 16, 2020 Microsoft released several cumulative updates as previews for Windows 10 versions 1809, 1903 and 1909. A first comment mentions these updates has already been given in the blog (thx for that). Here are some details about the respective updates.
[German]Microsoft has outlined some information aobut third-party update and Update for Business in a Techcommunity article. And they plan to provide better information about upgrade blockers. Here is a brief overview.
[German]Administrators of Microsoft Echange Server should take care of patching the remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2020-16875. The details or exploits have now been published. But patches has been available since September 8, 2020.
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