[German]There are serious vulnerabilities in older versions (before 14.3) of Endpoint Protection and Endpoint Protection Manager for Windows that allow the system to take over. Symantec has released updates for these products.
[German]Security researchers have discovered three vulnerabilities in Cyberoam firewalls (owned by British company Sophos). The vulnerabilities leave millions of devices and, in principle, the entire network vulnerable to security attacks. The products are used in corporate networks and are accessible via the Internet (sometimes with standard credentials).
The video conference service Zoom experienced a major outage a few hours ago and the service was no longer available. In the meantime, Zoom seems to have fixed the issue.
[German]The takeover of a domain controller by stolen admin passwords is a popular approach of cyber criminals. I stumbled upon an article on Twitter, explaining where attackers could find passwords on SYSVOL and via GPO preferences.
[German]Several high-performance computers in Europe were attacked by cyber criminals and have since been taken down (means offline from the internet). It is not yet entirely clear what the target of the attack was. Addendum: It seems, the attackers mined crypto currency.
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[German]First reports indicate that the planned Windows 10X operating system still has a problem running Win32 applications. The applications are lame or cause problems.
[German]Microsoft has announced a new Windows driver evaluation policy for manufacturers who deliver Windows drivers for their hardware via Windows Update.
[German]The Chrome developers want to stop advertising that consumes too many browser resources in the Chrome browser. The ads will then simply be stopped and unloaded.
[German]The .NET framework update KB4556399 from May 12, 2020 fails for some Windows 7 users users with an installation error 643. Most of this affected are using the unofficial BypassESU solution from MDL.
[German]Administrators who use WSUS to deploy a feature update to Windows 10 V190x reports that this fails with error codes such as 0x80070057 or 0xc1900298. There are now two different cases that have come to my attention or have been reported by readers.
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