[German]Some February 11, 2020 update kills the user profile during installation. Where do we stand regarding the bug at the end of February 2020 after the C and D Week updates are out?
[German]Today a brief information for administrators using VEEAM Instant VM Recovery. In certain cases, vSphere may be at risk of data loss if not responded to. In the meantime a patch is available to fix the problem.
[German]I would like to take up again the story about the illegally charged PayPal accounts of German users. Because more and more details about this fraud are coming into light.
[German]In this blog post I summarize some security information that has come to my attention in the last few hours. These are topics, for which I do not want to publish separate individual contributions in the blog. It is about a critical RCE bug in the Linux OpenBSD SMTP server. And there are details about the Exchange exploit CVE-2020-0688, which was patched recently.
[German]Security researchers at ESET have discovered a vulnerability in Broadcom and Cypress WLAN chips that could compromise the WPA2 encryption of millions of devices (routers). Here is some information on the subject.
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[German]Microsoft has released the cumulative update KB4535996 in the Insider Preview Release Preview Ring for Windows 10 V190x on February 26, 2020. Addendum: The update has been released to all users, see Windows 10 Version 190x: Update KB4535996 (Feb. 27, 2020).
[German]Microsoft released on Feb. 25, 2020 the Insider Preview Build 19041.84 of Windows 10 Version 2004 – the upcoming Windows 10 feature update – for WSUS.
[German]The graphic processing program Gimp has a strange behaviour, that could cause serious privacy issues. If a user 'cuts out' an image section, to remove sensitive parts, these pixels are not deleted in the saved graphics file. Instead the pixels are only hidden by a transparency mask in an alpha channel. This can lead to the fact that supposedly removed (confidential) image contents can be restored, removing the alpha channel.
[German]German BSI (Federal Office for Information Security) has written down some security requirement for new smartphones. Consequence: You cannot buy Android devices anymore. Also Windows 10 devices might be kicked, if such gadged are available. And App? Will facing also trouble.
[German]Security experts at SophosLabs have discovered a new cyber attack using spyware. The malware has been christened Cloud Snooper, implants a rootkit and communicates across firewalls. The spyware was found in the Amazon cloud on a Linux server. The malware can also infect Windows systems.
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