EFF: Ring Doorbell app shares user data with third parties

[German]The app for Amazon's Ring Camera (Ring Doorbell) shares user data, which makes the owners identifiable, with third party companies such as Facebook & Co., as the Electronic Frontier Foundation has found out.

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Ragnarok Ransomware targets Citrix ADC, stops Defender

[German]For administrators using unpatched Citrix ADC/Netscaler appliances, it is now five past twelve. The Ragnarok ransomware targets unpatched Citrix ADC installations and can stop Windows Defender, security experts found out.

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Massive cyber-attacks by state sponsored Turkish hackers?

[German]Massive cyber attacks on governments and other organizations in Europe and the Middle East have become public last year. Now a Reuters report sheds light into that. It seems that it is the work of hackers acting in the interest of the Turkish government.

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Fortinet closes two vulnerabilities (SSH, Database) in its SIEM

[German]The security vendor Fortinet has released patches that fix the vulnerabilities CVE-2019-17659 and CVE-2019-16153 in their own SIEM product FortiSIEM. The patches are each intended to close a backdoor in SSH and in the product's database that has been torn open by bugs.

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Windows 10 V190x: Update KB4532695 for Insider

[German]Microsoft has just released the update KB4532695 for Windows 10 version 1903 and for Windows 10 version 1909. This update is only available for Windows Insider in the Release Preview Ring. Details what fixes this update are not known. There are rumors that it patches jscript9.dll to close the IE vulnerability ADV200001/CVE-2020-0674. At deskmodder.de you can download them if needed – but who wants to do that?

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

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CacheOut: Cache attack agains Intel CPUs

[German]Long time no more articles about Meltdown, Spectre & Co? Let's change it now, because there is a new speculative side channel attack with CacheOut, which can be used to tap data on Intel CPUs.

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Review: German Government pays 800,000 Euros for Windows 7 ESU

win7[German]The German federal government and subordinate authorities will pay approximately 800,00 Euros in 2020 to provide updates to computers running Windows 7 SP1 after the end of support. This was the announcement a few days ago. So today, in the sense of a 'review, let's have a look at that topic.

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Leak revealed: Avast user data was sold

[English]A leaked document reveals that a subsidiary of the Avast antivirus manufacturer sold user data (searches, clicks, purchases, etc.) collected by its software to customers.

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Undermined privacy: How Apps spy on us legally

[German]It is actually known to informed people: Apps on smartphones are data sink holes collecting data – and data brokers are busy to get in touch with this collected data.

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Free Software Foundation demands release of Windows 7

win7 [German]After the official end of support for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 on January 14, 2020, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) requires Microsoft to make the operating system available as free software.

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