[Geman]Brief question to people with Windows 10 May 2020 Update. Do you still have applications like Notepad, Wordpad and the classic MS Paint? It looks like Microsoft will remove these applications via update.
[English]A German blog reader noticed that the local security policies for locking a user account during inactivity seem to stop working on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 and 2019. I'm going to put it up for discussion here, maybe the community can contribute to the clarification.
Microsoft has just released a fix for Intune. The fix fix fixes a bug in the BitLocker Key Rotation when managing Windows 10 version 1909 systems with Intune.
[German]Windows 10 May 2020 update may have some bugs internally that cause issues. This is results for instance in warning 642 entries in the event logs, where ESE reports that it cannot write to the ESENT database.
[German]The Microsoft Security Intelligence team has just posted an alert on Twitter warning of a massive Emotet campaign that broke out a few hours ago.
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[German]ACROS Security has released a micropatch for the SIGRed critical and worm exploitable vulnerability (CVE-2020-1350) for Windows Server 2008 R2 that is not protected via Microsoft's ESU license. This vulnerability allows remote code execution in Windows Domain Name System servers.
[German]Google's developers decided to disable the memory optimization (RAM allocation) feature for Windows 10 version 2004, which should be built into the M85 development branch of the Chromium browser. The reason: this optimization led to performance losses of between 10 percent and 13 percent more CPU power consumption.
[German]Windows 10 users are faced with the problem that the status area of the taskbar indicates a missing Internet connection, but the system is still online. This error also occurs in the Windows 10 May 2020 Update (Version 2004). This causes problems with various programs.
[German]The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is urging all US authorities to patch the wormable SIGRed vulnerability in Windows DNS Server within 24 hours.
[German]A brief note for administrators who use Sophos Authentication for Thin Clients (SATC) in conjunction with a Chromium 84 browser There will be problems with authentication using SATC and the XG firewall. The recommendation is to prevent updating the Chromium browser and use Firefox as the browser.
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