[German]Currently there seem to be issues or a failure with Microsoft Azure, at least in the USA. The Xbox Live service is also affected by this – and this in times of Coronavirus, where people are supposed to stay at home.
[German]We currently afford an IT infrastructure that is extremely vulnerable to cyber attacks. And we afford monopoles that allow manufacturers to pull users on a 'nose ring' through the arena. Here are a few thoughts.
[German]David das Neves has pointed me some days to ago to a repository he has put together with training materials about Microsoft Azure. Here are some hints.
[German]Brief information for users of the Tor bundle. The developers have released version 9.0.6, which fixes several vulnerabilities.
[German]VMware has just received a security update for its virtualization products, including VMware Workstation Pro and Vmware Player. These updates address security vulnerabilities in the virtualization products.
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[German]Security researchers have discovered a huge data leak at the Brazilian company Antheus Tecnologia, which develops and sells biometric solutions in Brazil and abroad. Over 80 million records were accessible, including e-mails from company employees, telephone numbers, 76,000 unique fingerprints and more.
[German]The university hospital of the Czech city of Brno (German: Brünn) is currently suffering from an attack by ransomware. The clinic runs one of the largest laboratories for testing for Covid-19 infections.
[German]Users of the Tor bundle are currently required to disable JavaScript due to an unpatched vulnerability (which is generally a good idea).
[German]ACROS Security has released a micro-patch for its 0patch agent that fixes the Privilege Escalation vulnerability CVE-2020-0683 in the Windows Installer. The micro-fix is available for users of Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 who have not purchased the corresponding ESU package from Microsoft but have purchased support from ACROS Security.
[German]Just a brief information I picked up, after a blog reader contacted me . Redmond delights its users of Windows 10 V1903 and V1909 randomly with the nag screen 'Get Let's make Windows even better …' when they log in. Here a few information prepared.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
