[German]Microsoft has released a new security update for the Google Chrome on August 10, 2020, which raises the browser to version 84.0.4147.125. Google has published this blog post about 84.0.4147.125.
[German]In all Chromium browsers (Google Chrome, Edge, Opera) there is a fat bug CVE-2020-6519, which introduces a vulnerability that allows attackers to bypass the Content Security Policy (CSP) protection and steal data from website visitors.
[German]A brief overview of various vulnerabilities in Cisco products. The Cisco Unified IP Conference Station 7937G is vulnerable. And there are also vulnerabilities in AnyConnect (Windows).
[German]Unpleasant, but not surprising, findings from the Def Con 2020: the vast majority of Internet of Things (IoT) devices are open like a hole and easily hackable. Only idiots, naive people, and hasaders use such devices with (unsecured) access from the Internet. Companies could of course still seal off the Internet of Trouble from the Internet with appropriate gateways – but that is not the issue here.
[German]A new report reveals an unpleasant discovery. Apparently hundreds of apps are contaminated with frameworks that allow for government monitoring. It involves the US company Anomaly Six, which has ties to the military and intelligence community. The US contractor obtains location data from more than 500 applications (apps) with hundreds of millions of users – so this time not China's KP.
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[German]There was a vulnerability in older versions of the TeamViewer remote access software. This allowed third parties to establish a connection to the respective PC unnoticed. The vulnerability has been fixed by a patch.
Wired has conducted an interview with Microsoft founder Bill Gates. It's about COVID-19, the US administration about Donald Trump and social media like TikTok (Microsoft wants to buy it). The article Bill Gates on Covid: Most US Tests Are 'Completely Garbage' is worth reading.
[German]Piriform has released CCleaner version 5.70 with a bug fix after the CCleaner version 5.69 cleaning tool had a fat problem with deleted Firefox extensions.
[German]Hackers have succeeded in hacking the platform reddit.com in a coordinated action. After that, slogans for a re-election of Trumps were displayed in the Sub-Reddits.
[German]Administrators of Windows Server 2012 R2 might be facing a serious problem (not sure, how many will see this), which German blog reader Axel R. recently drew my attention to by mail. If updates are managed with WSUS, there are problems since July 1, 2020, because of deactivated TLS 1.0/1.1 support.
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