[German]Administrators of Cisco products (switches etc.) need to patch. That's because the manufacturer issued six security advisories this week with warnings about weak points in products.
[German]A brief information: Microsoft has removed the Miracast receiver app in Windows 10 May 2020 Update (Version 2004). However, the app can be installed as an optional feature, if required. Here some information about this (annoying) topic.
[German]In Windows 10 cliets as well as in Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019, events with ID 650 may occur in the Event Viewer. Microsoft has provided an explanation for these entries as of August 13, 2020.
[German]A blog German reader informed me about an interesting observation in connection with the flash update KB4561600 under Windows 8.1. After the monthly patchday his system was extremely slow. After some searching he found the root cause and a fix.
[German]Microsoft is currently testing the update KB4571744 with Windows Insiders. The description of the update also says that a defrag error is fixed. However, the hope that the bug that defragmented SSDs was fixed has been dashed. Also with the update, SSDs are further (erroneously) defragmented instead of optimized. I have added the details in the blog post Windows 10 Version 2004: Update KB4571744 will fix the Defrag bug.
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[German]The developers of the e-mail client Thunderbird have released version 78.2.1 of the e-mail client on August 29, 2020. This is a maintenance update for the 78 main version of the e-mail client, which provides OpenPGP support. This was missing in version 78.2.0, which was released on August 26, 2020.
[German]Short message for users of Windows 10 version 2004, who are interested in the upcoming version 20H2 (autumn 2020) Microsoft has updated the so-called Enablement Update KB4562830, which is used to switch to Windows 10 20H2.
[German]Paying with a Visa credit card via NFC is usually PIN-secured above certain limit. However, researchers have now succeeded in cracking Visa EMC cards via NFC connections, making it possible to make payments without PIN authorization. Here is a brief overview of what is happening.
[German]Microsoft has updated on 08/28/2020 Reliability update KB4023057 for older Windows 10 versions. The update is intended to ease the transition to Windows 10 May 2020 update (version 2004).
[German]U.S. cloud provider Amazon adds the ability to run backups and synchronizations of Synology NAS drives with Synology programs in its consumer cloud drive service. As of November 1, 2020, Amazon will only allow its own apps to access these files and is discontinuing support for the third-party API.
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