[German]A ransomware attack has occurred at the Dussmann subsidiary Kühlanlagenbau in Dresden. In the process, 200 GBytes of data were stolen. The perpetrators of the attack probably published 14 Gbytes of this data online.
[German]The new protocols HTTP/2 and WPA3 (WLAN) are currently being closely examined by security researchers. Timeless timing attacks can be used to extract sensitive information.
[German]Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the GRUB2 boot loader, which could compromise both the Linux system and the Secure Boot available in Windows during boot process. Invisible malware may be injected on systems.
[German]Microsoft's Defender integrated into Windows marks Piriform's CCleaner software as a potentially unwanted program (PUP, Potential Unwanted Program or Potential Unwanted App, PUA).
[German]There is a critical vulnerability in WordPress plugin wpDiscuz in versions 7.0.0 to 7.0.4, as WordFence reports here. The vulnerability in the plugin, which provides a comment function, allows to take over a WordPress installation. This is fixed in version 7.0.5. Through my Facebook channels I know that version 5.3.5 also has a vulnerability. In this discussion post you will learn that there is also a version 5.3.6 for bug fixing.
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[German]The developers of the e-mail client Thunderbird released version 68.11.0 on July 28 , 2020. This is a maintenance update for the 68 main version of the e-mail client, which corrects a bug.
[German]On July 29, 2020, Microsoft released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20180 for insiders in the Developer Channel. It is the anniversary build, because Windows 10 was released exactly 5 years ago. The announcement with references to the new features was made in the Windows Blog. Microsoft has mainly unlocked features that were released in Build 20161 for the tiles of the Start menu. In addition there are some fixes and hints for developers, which can be read in the Windows Blog.
[German]Mozilla's developers have released the version 79.0. of the Firefox browser (as well as the 78.1.0 esr) on 29 July 2020. These are maintenance updates that fix both vulnerabilities and bugs.
[German]It seems to me that Microsoft no longer really has its update process under control. Forced updates from Windows 10 systems to my builds – and also an installation of optional updates without further user request.
[German]Brief question in the round, if anybody has already noticed. Microsoft Office offers the Auto-Recovery of documents. However, this function is said to be a bug recently.
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