[German]On May 6, 2020 Microsoft presented a new range of surface tablets and a new generation of headphones. These are the Surface Book 3, the Surface Go 2, and the Surface Headphones 2.
[German]The developers of the e-mail client Thunderbird released version 68.8.0 on 5 May 2020. This is a maintenance update for the 68 main version of the e-mail client, which corrects some bugs, but also contains security fixes.
[German]On May 5, 2020 (first Tuesday of the month, Office Patchday), Microsoft released several non-security updates for versions of Microsoft Office that are still supported.
[German]A few more security messages, for each of which I do not want to create a separate blog post. The German Federal Prosecutor's Office has obtained a warrant for the arrest of a hacker who broke into the IT systems of the Bundestag 5 years ago. Hoster Go Daddy was probably hacked with some servers, and the gaming platform "Roblox" was also hacked. And so on.
[German]There was a data leak on the erotic live streaming website cam4.com. An unprotected database contained over 10 billion records of personal user information such as full name, phone numbers, email addresses as well as payment logs, chats, logs and much more.
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[German]Security researchers from CyberNews warn about the use of Android Privacy Vault apps from the Google Play Store, which are promise to protect private data. But an analysis has shown that 30 so-called Privacy Vault apps misuse the entrusted data and infect the devices in worst case with adware or malware.
[German]Brief information for administrators who are responsible for Windows servers and have Microsoft teams (Citrix, RDS, VDI) in use. Keep an eye on virtual memory, teams are a memory hog.
[German]It's been a few days since electric Bluetooth toothbrushes were 'celebrated' at trade fairs. Via the Bluetooth interface, you can access the data of the Oral B toothbrushes and get all kinds of information and do some unexpected things.
[German] HPE has already released a support bulletin in March 2020 and updated it in April 2020 for an urgent firmware update for HPE Smart Array SR Gen10 controllers. HPE points out, that older firmware can cause data inconsistency in several constellations.
In November 2019 Microsoft released its SQL Server 2019. If you want to inform yourself about the new features in Microsoft SQL-Server 2019, I have something for you.
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