[German]On the one hand, the need for remote access to industrial networks is increasing during COVID-19. The other side of the coin: energy supply, critical production and water supply are particularly affected by attacks.
[German]Interesting finding on the subject of bulging batteries in Microsoft's surface tablets. Redmond has screwed on the firmware, so that the bloated/bluged batteries should be avoided. However, not all models get these firmware functions.
[German]Microsoft is currently making some changes with regard to its access to the Volume Licensing Center (VLSC) – I had reported about this in the blog post FYI: Microsoft VLSC access from October 2020 via business or school account. Now Microsoft has published a FAQ about VLSC licenses.
A small tip for people who want to work with dockers and the containers used there and who need to get into the material. Chris Noring from Microsoft has published the article Get started with Docker and Containers in the Techcommunity. The article contains numerous references to further documents.
[German]Microsoft has just announced the end of support for the two browsers Internet Explorer 11 and the old (legacy) Edge for the year 2021. This concerns the support of IE 11 under Microsoft 365 (e.g. teams as of the end of November 2020) and the support for the old Edge browser under Windows 10 (March 2021).
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[German]Two U.S. companies, Oracle and Salesforce, are being sued for data breaches by a consumer privacy group in a court in Amsterdam. The accusation: The two companies collect user data without their consent and then sell the data to third parties.
[German]Some users are concerned about the security and confidentiality of their data stored into the cloud. Often we heard advice: "Then I encrypt that stuf, and I'm sure that no one can read my data'. During the last days, two 'disturbing' pieces of a puzzle have just come to my attention, that put a bad light to the encryption approach. So I like to get an overview about your experiences.
[German]For six months, security specialists rolled out a kind of vaccine (EmoCrash) against the ransomware Emotet for authorities and operators of critical infrastructures. EmoCrash takes advantage of a bug in Emotet to protect systems from infection. It was not until the beginning of August 2020 that the Emotet gang succeeded in switching off EmoCrash.
[German]Administrators of Active Directory (AD) domain controllers may notice EventID 5829 warnings in the Event Viewer since August 2020 Patchday (August 11, 2020). This is intentional, Microsoft is addressing a problem with a vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472) in Netlogon connections. Admins have to react, because Microsoft is enforcing some things regarding Netlogon connections from February 2021 on.
[German]I'd have one more for the end of Sunday. It's about a user, whose 'lifelong' user account was closed 'because of copyright infringement'.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
