[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'.
[German]Users of a Microsoft account – needed for Microsoft services or in Windows 10 – may facing a strange behaviro. Their Microsoft account may be suspended without a warning for life time. One reason could be OneDrive content, that violates Microsoft's terms of service. A photo of the bathing children can cause your Microsoft account to be suspended – for lifetime – and you'll be digitally exist no more.
[German]Another addendum from this week as a follow-up to Patchday. Microsoft has issued a document 'Microsoft Security Update Releases' with two warnings about patched vulnerabilities. The message was required due to a revision of the CVEs.
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[German]A short addendum to the patchday August 11, 2020, where Microsoft has also released an update for Microsoft Dynamics 365. This will fix the remote execution vulnerability CVE-2020-1182.
[German]Currently, there is a problem that Microsoft Defender detects Citrix services as Trojans after an update and deactivates these services. But there is a workaround, which is described in a support article.
[German]Since 11.8.2020 Microsoft has been experiencing a disruption in Exchange Online service. The service is occasionally disrupted in sub-functions (login, access). Blog reader Andreas P. has provided me with some information from the Dashboard for Administrators.
[German]The security updates rolled out by Microsoft on August 11, 2020 for Windows and other Microsoft products are causing problems for some users. These range from installation errors 0x800f0988 to login problems to Hyper-V machines that no longer work. There is an update for the striking PDF24 Creator which fixes the error.
[German]Security researcher from Check Point Research finds vulnerabilities in certain Amazon Alexa subdomains. The Researchers demonstrate how hackers could remove/install skills on a victim's Alexa account, access voice histories, and personal information These were immediately reported to Amazon and have since been closed. Until then, however, any user could become the victim of a hacker attack – without even realizing it. Sensitive data, such as the history of all voice recordings, could already have been stolen.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
