[German]Security researchers found again a Bluetooth vulnerability: Smartphones, laptops, IoT devices etc. are vulnerable to a new BIAS Bluetooth attack. This would allow an attacker to access any Bluetooth Classic device without knowing a key. In the meantime, however, firmware updates from various Bluetooth chip manufacturers have been released to close the vulnerabilities.
[German]On May 22, 2020, Microsoft released also Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19624 (20H2 development branch) as a ARM64 VHDX download. The announcement has been made in the Windows Blog, where you may find further details.
[German]On May 22, 2020, Microsoft released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19631 (20H2 development branch) for insiders in the Fast Ring. The announcement was made in the Windows Blog, where references to this build can be found.
Today we have Bank holliday (Father's Day) here in Germany. Therefor I like to present an easy to understand explanation, how Windows works. We already know Windows and his Start menu, the windows and double-click ooperation.
[German]ACROS Security has released a micropatch for the Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege vulnerability CVE-2020-1048 in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 (without ESU license).
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[German]On May 20, 2020, Microsoft has updated another batch of microcode updates for Windows 10 version 1507 to 1909 (but these are probably old updates that were already updated in February 2020 as well).
[German]An immediate warning: It seems that cyber criminals has obtained an old (orphaned) Amazon AWS S3 bucked used some times ago to host a Cookie Consent solution. Now the Cookie Consent logo delivered from the Amazon CDN contains a malware/ransomware script. It seems, that thousands of website, using old code, are shipping now this malicious content. Probably it's a ransomware attack. Here is what I've found out so far.
[German]Microsoft released version 0.18 of PowerToys for Windows 10 users a few hours ago. These tools are free and offer additional features for Windows 10. The new version 0.18 includes the new Run launcher. Addendum: Clint Rutkas has announced, that version 0.18.1 is 'coming this night', but till now, I haven't found a change log.
[German]Google's developers have released the Chrome Browser in version 83 on 19 May 2020. The browser update now automatically uses DNS-over-HTTPS. The update also closes 83 security holes of earlier versions.
[German] British airline EasyJet was the victim of a cyber attack. The attackers were able to extract customer data (such as e-mail addresses, travel data) from around nine million customers. There were also 2,000 credit card records among them. Addendum: The hack was bigger as confirmed earlier.
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