Windows 10 Insider Preview: Changes in Telemetry Options

[German]In future Windows 10 versions, Microsoft intends to 'rename' the options for telemetry data acquisition – but the content will not change. This is stated in the announcement for the last Insider Preview.

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Microsoft Office, the Cloud, Licenses and Security

[German]Companies using Office 365.com as a cloud solution may run into security issues if they have booked the 'wrong' license plan. This is because Microsoft keeps log files for a different period of time (90 days to 1 year) depending on the subscription. This can lead to the problem if an attack on Office 365 is noticed very late.

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Issues integrating Updates in a Windows Embedded 7 image

win7[German]There is an issue with integrating the latest updates from January 2020 into Windows Embedded Standard 7 installation images. Microsoft blocks the update installation on newer hardware. The Windows setup then fails with the error 0x80240037 – 'unsupported hardware'.

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Windows Server 2019: Defender Performance Issues

[German]Will there be major performance issues during running Windows Server 2019? Then Windows Defender may be the cause, as I read a few days ago.

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Fix: Windows 10 driver blocked by core isolation

[German]Microsoft has published a support article on how to fix an issue, that drivers are blocked from getting loaded by the security feature 'core isolation' introduced in Windows 10.

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

[Sponsored Post]In the rapidly evolving IT world, choosing the right remote desktop software is critical for organizations that value security, ease of use and reliability. One provider of secure remote access that has been on the market since 2001 is ISL Online, which presents some considerations for choosing such software below. More ...


Vulnerability CVE-2020-9054 affects Zyxel USG/ATP firewalls

[German]Zyxel's USG/ATP firewalls are also affected by the CVE-2020-9054 vulnerability, as is their NAS. The vendor has released a firmware update to close the vulnerability.

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Vulnerability in ‘Intel x86 Root of Trust’

[German]All Intel CPUs released in the past five years contain an unfixable flaw, that affects the 'Intel x86 Root of Trust'. Intel tried to patch to lessen the damage of exploits. But security researcher say that's not enough to protect the system 100 %.

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Security round up (03/06/2020)

[German]At the end of the week a collection of security topics that have come to my attention over the last days and for which I do not want to create a separate blog post.

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Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19577

On March 5, 2020, Microsoft released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19577 (20H2 development branch) for Insiders in the Fast Ring. In the Windows Blog, Microsoft lists the bug fixes and known issues of this build.

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Security Updates: Chrome 80.0.3987.132 / Edge 80.0.361.66

Edge[German]Google has released a security update for the Chrome 80.0.3987.132 on 3 March 2020. Microsoft's developers followed on March 4, 2020 and released a security update for the Chromium Edge browser. This updates the browser to version 80.0.361.66.

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