[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.
[German]Exciting question, which I would like to discuss in this blog post. It's based on an observation that Windows 10 is forced to upgraded from version 1709 to 1909 in the enterprise environment when WSUS is unavailable for enterprise clients for a few days.
[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.
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[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.
[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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