Microsoft Teams and it’s security

[German]A small view on Microsoft teams, which is offered to enterprise customers on a broad base. But what's about the security of this product. Just a glimpse behind the curtain.

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Prognosis: Mass migration from Windows to macOS

[German]Exciting prognosis, which has just fallen into my hands. Dean Hager, CEO of the software provider Jamf, has given some forecasts for innovations in 2020. One is that we will see a mass migration from Windows to macOS. I found this so interesting that I made a small blog post about it.

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Windows 7: Internet Explorer 11 reaches end of support

[German]Microsoft axes the Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7 SP1 and declared the browser has reached 'end of support' for this operating system. This may be read now on the IE download pages.

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Windows 10 Mobile reaches end of life

A small reminder about last week: Windows 10 Mobile version 1709 (the 'latest version') received its last security update on 10.12.2019. Microsoft had internally changed the documentation so that the support ends on January 14th, 2020. But after the date has passed, Windows 10 Mobile is finally out of support. Devices with this operating system still work, but they don't get any more updates.

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Microsoft Ignite 2020 in September

Microsoft has announced the dates for its Ignite conference in September 2020. The MSIgnite 2020 will start on September 21, 2020, in New Orleans (USA) and will continue until September 25, 2020.

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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 ...


Warning: 0-Day vulnerability in Internet Explorer (01/17/2020)

[German]Microsoft has issued a security advisory for a 0-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer as of January 17, 2020, which affects virtually all versions of Windows (because Internet Explorer is the browser that is present in those versions). There is an issue in the JScript part that could be exploited to remotely execute code. Here is some information, including how to work around it.

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Edge Update to 79.0.309.68, language issue fixed

Edge[German]Microsoft has updated the Edge Browser to version 79.0.309.68, so that the vulnerabilities present in Chrome (see Chrome 79.0.3945.130) are also fixed in the Chromium Edge Browser. The issue, that Chromium Edge is installed in a wrong language after download seems also be fixed. (via deskmodder.de).

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Microsoft: Car park control in Redmond unprotected accessible via Internet

[German]Microsoft's parking garages in Redmond, USA, are in trouble. Their car park control system and servers has been unprotected and accessible via the Internet.

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Chrome 79.0.3945.130

[German] Google's developers have just released Chrome 79.0.3945.130. The browser update closes 11 vulnerabilities in total, but Google don't reaveal details about that.

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Further actions required for Citrix Netscaler vulnerability

[German]Another short collection for administrators who use the Citrix ADC (Application Delivery Controller, formerly Netscaler). The CVE-2019-19781 vulnerability has been exploited. In addition, other vulnerabilities and backdoors have been discovered. As there are no firmware updates available yet (coming next week), those affected will have to go back in and take measures to harden against the vulnerabilities and perform additional testing to ensure that the instances are not infected.

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