[German]Security researchers from Google's Project Zero have discovered a previously unknown group of hackers who have been attacking iPhones via compromised websites for years. Visiting those sites leaves a complex exploit chains of malicious code on Apple devices.
[German]Users of the virus protection solution receive the Avira Optimizer installed in newer versions. Up to the version before 1.2.0.367, this contains a vulnerability that allows privileges escalation. The Avira developers have now fixed this vulnerability with the version mentioned above.
[German]Microsoft plans to remove Adobe Flash from all Windows browsers by the end of 2020. The company has just announced this, and has rejected a suspicion that Flash will soon be removed.
A brief information at the weekend. On Tuesday, August 13th, the Microsoft Defender ATP team hosted its first Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Twitter.
Microsoft has released on August 30, 2019 cumulative Update KB4511555 for .NET Framework 3.5/4.8 for Windows 10 1903. Update KB4511555 reliability improvements in .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8. Among other things, the crash of the BCL component which caused BackupExec 20.4 to fail (see Windows 10: Update for .NET Framework 3.5, 4.7.2, 4.8 (08/20/2019)) is fixed. Details may be found within the linked kb article.
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[German]Microsoft released the KB4512941 cumulative update for Windows 10 Version 1903 on August 30, 2019. In addition, the and Servicing Stack Update (SSU) was released on August 27, 2019. Both updates were tested with insiders in advance. Here is an overview of these updates.
[German]Microsoft has released a series of microcode updates for various Windows 10 versions as of August 29, 2019. I tried to create a list of the KB numbers involved.
Microsoft has re-released update KB4512941 for Windows 10 Version 1903 (and for branch 19H2) again on August 29th and tests it with Windows insiders. I reported about it in the blog post Windows 10 V1903: Updates KB4512941 and KB4515530.
At the beginning of August (8/7/2019) Intel released a BIOS update [RYBDWi35.86A] for Intel NUC systems (with Broadwell architecture). .
[German]Since August 21, 2019, Microsoft has been testing the KB4512941 cumulative update for Windows 10 Version 1903 with insiders. However, the update causes a high CPU load on a core on some systems.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
