[German]Currently, there is probably a disruption at Microsoft 365 again, which can affect individual customers, even with Office 365. I don't have a lot of information yet, because I can't access the Administrator Dashboard (I'm not in the Cloud).
[German]The antivirus vendor AVAST announced its preparing to close down its subsidiary Jumpshot after the latest data scandal that I've also discussed in this blog.
[German]The United Nations was hacked in 2019. This was possible because systems were not patched. And then the responsible authorities at UN wanted to keep it all secret.
[German]In this blog post I like to give a short overview for Windows 7 users who continue to use the operating system and are looking for antivirus software.
[German]ACROS Security offers administrators of systems with Windows 7 SP1 or Windows Server 2008/R2 a free trial month for 0patch subscriptions. Here is some information about this offer and also an outline about my plans for the 'Windows 7 Life Extension' project here in the blog.
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[German]A small hint for people who upload from time to time suspicious files to VirusTotal and have them checked for malware. VirusTotal has now been extended with the Bitdam Sandbox.
[German]Just a side note for administrators of Windows Server 2012 and Windows Embedded 8 Standard systems. Internet Explorer 10 reaches the end of life. You need to upgrade to Internet Explorer 11, if that hasn't been done yet.
[English]Within this blog post I would like to pick up some security information that came to my attention during the last hours. From documents of Maze ransomware victims, that has been published to data leaks, everything is included.
[German]A brief information about Thunderbird. The project and the developers move away from the Mozilla Foundation to the MZLA Technologies Corporation. Blog reader Ralf mentioned it in this comment. Was planned in the past and has now been announced in the Thunderbird blog. But that changes nothing for Thunderbird users, the e-mail client will stay as open source software for free.
[German]Microsoft has released a security advisory for released security updates for the Chromium-based Edge Browser on January 28, 2020.
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