[German]Today a small guest article by blog reader Andreas H. (alias dinkumoil on GitHub and SourceForge), who has been involved in the open source software project CudaText (text editor for several platforms).
[German]Mozilla's developer just (December 3, 2019) released version 71 (and 68.3.0 ESR) of the Firefox browser. It is a major version and a maintenance update for 68.3.0. Here is a brief overview of what changes in the new version.
The Internet Archive (Wayback-Machine) archives websites – and digitizes books. Currently, 384 billion websites (60 petabytes) have been archived before being forgotten (because websites are deleted). 150 employees worldwide keep the project going. Currently, donations are being collected to keep the archive running and a 2-1-campaign is underway in which each donation is tripled . A donation of 5 $ becomes 15 $. Because my blog profits from the Internet archive (I can redirect broken external links to the archived copies) I just made a donation. If someone would like to support the project as well, you can find the details under the link above.
[German]Just a short security note. Security researchers have found an approach to trick and evade/circumvent the protection or detection of attacks on the theft of credentials.
[German]Who's next? Last week the security company Prosegur was a victim, of Ryuk. Now the Ransomware Ryuk has hit the Spanish company TECNOL and is currently paralyzing t-systems and a clinics in Texas.
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WinBtrfs is a Windows driver for the Linux file system Btrfs of the next generation. I had mentioned the driver in the blog post Windows driver WinBtrfs v1.5 for Linux file system released published recently. Now I've been informed that version 1.5 crashes the file system (see the linked blog post).
[German]Microsoft has released the first version 0.14.0 of PowerToys for Windows 10 users. The PowerToys known from Windows 9x are Open Source and available free of charge.
[German]Microsoft's Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program is now available since December 2, 2019. Enterprise users can use this program to purchase extended security updates from the end of support (14.1.2020) until early 2023. Here is another short summary of what you should know.
[German]November is over, and it's time to have another look at the operating system and browser share on the desktop. How its about Windows 7 on the desktop two months before the end of support? And what's about Windows 10?
Just a brief information for users of the encryption software VeryCrypt, which has been bumming around with me for some days already: Already on October 27, 2019, the developers of the encryption software VeraCrypt released an update to 1.24-Hotfix1.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
