[German]Does anyone in the readership use the Microsoft OneNote app on Windows 10? The OneNote for Windows 10 product will no longer be supported in October 2025 (with Windows 10). From June 2025, users will have to be prepared for problems with synchronization.
[English]Short addendum and note for administrators who use the load balancer LoadMaster from Progress Kemp. As of March 10, 2025, the provider has announced that the vulnerability CVE-2025-1758 has been closed by a security update. Continue reading
[German]Do you use wall sockets or cameras from G-HOMA? I don't know if it affects any other readers, but the provider G-HOMA seems to shutting down and discontinuing support for its app for smart sockets, which will become useless as a result. A reader informed me some days ago, and I've also just seen that the G-HOMA store is no longer available either. Seems to be another case of home automation devices are becoming useless.
[German]Security researchers from the Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) point to a 0-day vulnerability ( ZDI-CAN-25373) in Windows, which has probably been exploited by 11 state-supported hacker groups from North Korea, Iran, Russia and China since 2017. Microsoft rated the vulnerability in shortcut files as "not sufficiently" critical in September 2024 and rejected a patch.
[German]Microsoft had set an upgrade block for Windows 11 24H2 on systems on which the game Asphalt 8 (Airborne) was installed. The problems now appear to have been resolved, as Microsoft has now lifted this upgrade blocker for Windows 11 24H2 on corresponding systems.
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[German]Microsoft recently confirmed that Copilot can be uninstalled on some Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems as a result of the March 2025 updates. Those affected had to reinstall Copilot from the Store. Microsoft now claims to have fixed this bug for Windows.
[German]On March 19, 2025, there was probably another major Exchange Online outage, meaning that Outlook users were no longer able to access their Exchange Online mailboxes on the web.
[German]I got reports about issues with Microsoft Outlook. Signatures are shown wrong, if Outlook is using the cloud to store settings. Several German administrators has confirmed this issue. Are you affected?
[German]Warning for users of Veeam Backup & Replication. Vendor Veeam has informed it's customers on March 19, 2025 about a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability CVE-2025-23120 in various versions of the mentioned product. It can be abused in domain joined environments. A security update is available to close this vulnerability.
[German]Does anyone use Stardock products (start menu etc.)? Something strange has happened since a week. A blog reader pointed out to me that there are problems with their website. And there has been talk of technical problems for several hours. However, when the reader tried to visit the site, he received a warning from his security solution because redirects were occurring.
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2013 – 2016
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