Lenovo fixes faulty ThinkPad Type-C USB ports

[English]Lenovo has delivered several ThinkPad models with a faulty USB Type C connector. It's silly that failures only occur after 6 to 12 months of typical use. For affected devices with USB Type C connector, Lenov0 has now released a firmware update, which should solve this issue.

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Visual Studio Live Share Spoofing Vulnerability

[German]Microsoft just released a security advisory informing about a Visual Studio Live Share Spoofing Vulnerability. CVE-2019-1486has undergone a major revision increment.

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Cyber attacks on Citrix: City of Brandenburg and community Stahnsdorf offline

[German]Both the German city of Brandenburg an der Havel and the municipality of Stahnsdorf in the district of Potsdam-Mittelmark (Germany) have gone offline and turned off their IT systems a cyber attack and are working in emergency mode. Here too, Citrix ADC/Netscaler gateways were the cause of successful attacks.

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Google I/O 2020 May 12-14

The Google developer conference Google I/O will be held this year from 12 to 14 May 2020. The conference venue will again be the Shoreline Amphitheater, located in Mountain View near Google's headquarters, where Google has hosted the event in recent years.

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Edge and its poor installer security

Edge[German]Microsoft offers the new Chromium-based Edge Browser since a few days now. However, the security of the provided Windows installer is quite poor.

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

[Sponsored Post]In the rapidly evolving IT world, choosing the right remote desktop software is critical for organizations that value security, ease of use and reliability. One provider of secure remote access that has been on the market since 2001 is ISL Online, which presents some considerations for choosing such software below. More ...


Windows 10-Updates (January 23, 2020)

[German]On January 23, 2020, several cumulative updates (as preview updates) were released for older Windows 10 builds. Here are some details about the respective updates.

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Preview Updates for Windows 8.1/Server (January 23, 2020)

Windows Update[German]On January 23, 2020, Microsoft Preview Rollup released updates for Windows Windows 8.1 and the corresponding server versions. There were no updates for Windows 7.

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Ransomware: Are Potsdam and Gedia Shitrix victims?

[German]Well, I haven't found a 'smoking gun', but it turns out that the cyber attacks of the city of Potsdam (Germany) and German automotive supplier Gedia were possible via the Shitrix vulnerability in the Citrix ADC (Netscaler).

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City of Potsdam (Germany) offline – IT Servers shutdown

[German]The city of Potsdam, located near Berlin/Germany, has shut down its servers. E-mails no longer reach the staff, ID cards can no longer be applied for, etc. The administration is virtually at hold. Addendum: Added information about Citrix ADC vulnerability.

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Citrix vulnerability: New updates and scanners for testing

[German]Citrix developers have now released further firmware updates to close the vulnerabilities reported before Christmas 2019. There is also a scanner to detect Citrix systems compromised via the CVE-2019-19781 vulnerability. And there is a critical vulnerability in Cisco Firepower.

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