[German]Security researchers from Cybernews have discovered an unprotected database on the Internet that belongs to the marketing automation platform Maropost. Through this database, 95 million records containing e-mail addresses and other customer data have been revealed. Attempts to contact the company were unsuccessful.
[German]Microsoft has acquired the domain Corp.com as a precautionary measure. The goal is to prevent the domain from being used by malicious parties to steal Windows credentials, monitor customer traffic, or deliver malicious files.
[German]Google's developers have released the Chrome 81 on 7 March 2020. The browser update closes 32 security holes in total and comes with the Web NFC API.
[German]Very nasty: A patch against the Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability CVE-2020-0688 in Microsoft's Exchange Server has been available since February 2020. But 80% of publicly available Microsoft Exchange Servers are not patched. However, the advice 'patch your server' is not always that easy.
[German]Microsoft has now also started to reduce the data traffic associated with the OneDrive online storage. Since a few days no preview images are displayed on macOS and Windows for several file types on synchronized local OneDrive files.
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[German]Users of HP computers should respond. The HP Support Assistant installed on many machines running Windows has security vulnerabilities that are not closed by auto-update. Whether the HP patch released at the beginning of April 2020 closes all vulnerabilities is currently unkown.
[German]Mozilla's developers have released the version 75.0.0 and the version and 68.7.0esr of the Firefox browser on April 7, 2020. These are new major updates for the browser. Addition: Information from the release notes added.
[German]In view of the corona crisis, Microsoft has postponed his announced plans, to retire the basic authentication of Exchange Online in autumn 2020. This authentication will now be switched off in the second half of 2021 at the earliest.
[German]Microsoft released version 0.16.1 of PowerToys for Windows 10 users a few hours ago. These tools are free and offer nice additional features for Windows 10. The new version 0.16.1 brings some bug fixes for the tools.
[German]In Part 1 I had taken up a reader's note that after Windows fails to install updates, there are potential errors in the Windows Update database which can't be repaired by Update trouble shooter. In part 2 I describe further diagnosis steps, a root cause for the issues and a repair approach.
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