[German]The developers of the e-mail client Thunderbird released version 78.0.0 on July 15, 2020. It is a new main version of the e-mail client, which also corrects some errors.
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VirtualBox 6.1.12 released
[German]Oracles developers have released Virtualbox version 6.1.12 on July 14, 2020. It is a maintenance update which should fix bugs of earlier versions of the virtualization software.
European Court cancels EU-US “Privacy Shield”
[German]It is a bang – the data protection agreement "Privacy Shield" concluded between the USA and the EU has just been overturned by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). This now affects all cloud services hosted in the USA.
Twitter accounts hacked (July 15, 2020)
[German]Hackers managed to trick Twitter employees on Wednesday and take over tens of thousands of high-profile Twitter accounts (Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Uber and Apple) via their dashboard or an internal tool. This was then used for scams involving crypto-currencies.
Outlook connection issues with Exchange Online (07/15/2020)
[German]As of July 15, 2020, Outlook users did not only have the problem that the application crashes due to an update. Some users were also no longer able to log on to Exchange Online with Outlook.
Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution
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PowerToys 0.19.2 released
[German]I had announced the release of the PowerToys update of version 0.19.1 in the article PowerToys 0.19.1 announced. On July 14, 2020 Microsoft has already rolled out version 0.19.2 of the PowerToys for Windows 10 users. This is a maintenance update, which should eliminate several bugs. The change log and the download can be found on this github page.
Patchday Microsoft Office Updates (July 14, 2020)
[German]On July 14, 2020 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), Microsoft released various security-related updates for still supported Microsoft Office versions and other products.
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Outlook crashes with Error 0xc0000005, Workaround/Fix
[German]Users of Outlook have been suffering for several hours from the fact that the application crashes at startup, possibly with the error code 0xc0000005. This primarily affects Outlook 2019 and Outlook 365 – but older versions are probably also affected.
Windows 10 Insider Preview 20170
On July 15, 2020, Microsoft released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20170 for insiders in the Developer Channel. The announcement was made in the Windows Blog, where references to this build can be found. Systems with AMD-CPU do not receive the update due to a bug. In addition, the Microsoft Launcher v6 for Android will be rolled out in general.
Chrome 84.0.4147.89 released
[German]Google's developers have updated the Chrome Browser to version 84.0.4147.89 as of July 14 , 2020. This version closes vulnerabiltieis in the desktop version of Google Browser. TLS 1.0 and 1.1 support has also been removed.