The Messenger Signal has been extremely popular with many people for years and was a replacement for SMS and WhatsApp. However, a new feature now causes security experts to uninstall this messenger.
Microsoft has released five new firmware updates for owners of a Surface Book 2 that are designed to improve the reliability of the Dock 2. There are even eight updates available for the Surface Laptop 3 that promise to fix some issues. Also Surface Pro 5 and 6 receives updates. More details may be found in the articles here and here.
[German]For users with a Windows 10 N variant, Microsoft has released the Media Feature Pack for Windows 10 N version 2004. Here is some information about this topic and how to obtain this pack.
[German]It's a bang – various video conferencing systems were subjected to a short test at the Berlin Data Protection Commissioner. Microsoft's teams or Zoom, as well as WebEx from Cisco, failed as a GDPR compliant video conferencing solution failed.
[German]A few days ago David Xantos brought his Sandboxie-Fork to build 0.3/5.42. David informed me about this fact and some changes by mail. Thus security gaps in the original sandbox mechanism are fixed by the update..
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[German]Brief question to the round of Windows 10 users who have updated machines from Windows 7 SP1 to the Windows 10 May 2020 Update (2004 version). Will there be network issues after the upgrade?
[German]Microsoft is currently testing a new Kernel Data Protection Technology (KDP) with Windows 10 insiders. According to Microsoft, this is intended to prevent malware or attackers from modifying (damaging) the memory of the operating system.
[German]Mozilla's developers have released the version 78.0.2 of the Firefox browser, as well as the 78.0.2 esr, as of July 9, 2020, which are maintenance updates that fix both vulnerabilities and bugs.
[German]ACROS Security has released a micropatch for the Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Zoom for Windows. There is no CVE identifier for the vulnerability.
[German]Microsoft Research has now announced the Freta project. It is a cloud-based malware detection service to detect rootkits, cryptominers and previously undiscovered malware strains lurking in Linux cloud VM images.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
