[German]Mozilla's developers have just released (February 18, 2020) version 73.0 .1 of the Firefox browser. This is a maintenance update for the browser that fixes the conflict with 0patch agents.
[German]Microsoft has recently published its views on the further development of the Microsoft Edge browser. It's a document that consists of a hotchpotch of user feedback, but can be interpreted as a roadmap of what Microsoft intend to do in the future.
[English]How dangerous is the recently discovered Ransomware Snake/Ekans, which targets industrial plants? Although the malware does not directly attack ICS processes, it is still dangerous for critical infrastructures and OT systems.
[German]A short note for Windows users who intend to experiment with Docker for Windows. There are conflicts with the Razer Synapse driver tool. Funny is the reason why the two programs fails to work together.
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[German]Security experts from WordFence discovered a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin wpCentral on February 13, 2020, which allows blogs to be taken over.
[German]I just came across the news that Google has kicked the Android app ToTok (a chat program) out of the Google Play Store again because of spying features. There was something in December 2019, which I had reported about at that time.
[German]Disturbing story just came to me from security analysts. The provider PayPal has had (and still has) vulnerabilities in its system for a month, which were reported in January 2020, but have not yet been fixed. Hackers can abuse them to siphon a PayPal and bank accounts. In addition, about 14 days ago I have received mails from users that their PayPal accounts have been misused.
[German]Today a security issue, which was brought to me by a blog reader. A user was spammed with newsletter subscriptions. And at the end of the day it turned out to be a hack of his PayPal account.
[German]There are current reports that the screens of Surface Laptop 3 devices cracks spontaneously. It looks like a serial error, and affected users are in trouble, because it's not covered by warranty.
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