[German]Microsoft has – probably in view of the Corona crisis, all barriers to Skype conferences have been removed. You can start a 'free meeting' in your browser, in which anybody can participate.
[German]Some US schools have now forbidden their teachers to continue using the Zoom service. The reason is security concerns and the recommendation is to switch to Microsoft Teams.
[German]An infection with the Emotet malware can slow down an entire corporate network because the CPUs of Windows devices are being used to their maximum capacity, bringing network and internet traffic down to zero.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemy Google announced, that they are rolling back (temporarily) the SameSite Cookie changes, that has been introduced in Chrome 80 in February. Furhter details may be read within this Google blog post.
[German]ACROS Security has released a micro patch for the "Stuxnet-like" LNK RCE vulnerability CVE-2020-0729. This is micro patch is available via the 0patch agent for unpatched Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 systems.
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[German]On March 3, 2020, Malwarebytes released the tool AdwCleaner 8.0.4. It's a maintenance release. The update fixes a DLL hijacking vulnerability that I reported to the developers.
[German]Windows users – and especially users of Windows 10 and Microsoft Surface devices – are affected from time to time by the boot error 0xc0000098. I will therefore prepare the whole thing again in a blog post
[German]The Mozilla developers have released version 74.0.1 and version and 68.6.1esr of the Firefox browser on April 3, 2020. This is a maintenance update for the browser.
[German]Google's developers have released version 80.0.3987.162 of the Chrome browser (heise specifies 80.0.3987.163 here). This is a security update which should close three vulnerabilities. The new Chrome version 80.0.3987.122 is available for Windows, Mac and Linux and is rolled out to the systems via the automatic update function. You can download it here.
[German]A German blog reader pointed out a bug in Microsoft Outlook 2016 in the mailboxes section. There are issues with moving mailbox folders within Outlook – the moved folder vanishes, although the folder is still present.
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