[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.
[German]Google has removed 500 malicious extensions for the Chrome browser from its web store after security researchers issued a warning. Here are some details what I know so far.
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[German]Little addendum from the weekend. Microsoft has added an update KB4541091 for Windows 10 for Windows Insider. This raises the build to 19564.1005.
[German]Not only Windows 7 users may be affected by the recently reported shutdown blockade. Even those who are running Windows 10 could suddenly find themselves in a situation where Windows reports that they have no permission to shut down.
Short addendum from last week. The Tor developers have already released Tor Browser 9.0.5 on 11 February 2020. This is a maintenance update that fixes some issues.
[German]Update KB4537821 for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2, released February 11, 2020, causes some users to load a temporary user profile after installation.
[German]A brief information for administrators of Windows Server 2012/R2 and users of Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1 and Windows 10 Microsoft has also withdrawn the security update KB4502496.
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