[German]Apple has released iOS version 12.4.5 for older devices on January 28, 2020. Furthermore the update for version 13.3.1 was released. Also some updates for iTunes and iCloud for Windows has been released.
[German]On 28 January 2020, Microsoft released cumulative update KB4534132 for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 for Windows 10 Version 190x and Windows Server 2019. Microsoft recommends that you install this update as part of your regular maintenance routines. For details on the prerequisites, see the linked KB article.
[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.
[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.
[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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[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.
[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?
[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.
[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.
[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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