The Mozilla developers have just (July 9, 2019) released version 68 of the Firefox browser. Firefox 60.8.0esr has also been released and the Tor browser updated. Details may be found in the release notes. The browser should be auto-updated. You can download the browser from this Mozilla site or from the FTP server.
[German]Wireless keyboard and mouse models from Logitech as well as wireless Presenters from this vendor are vulnerable. There are serious security issues in the wirelessly connected devices. The vendor plans to patch only a few vulnerabilities.
[German]Microsoft is currently slapping its Silver and Gold partners and Action Pack buyer with some changes to the 'terms and conditions' that make them much worse. Internal use licenses of Action Pack will be removed, and support calls are charged. Update: The decision has been cancelled.
The British ICO (Information Communication Office) intends to fine airline British Airways (BA) with £183.39M for infringements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The reason was a cyber incident in Summer 2018.
[German]Today still a tool introduction in form of the Open Source Task Manager TaskExplorer. The tool is developed by David Xanatos (an alias) for Windows. Continue reading
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Eurofins was the victim of a cyber attack (this is known) and had to pay a ransom. It went really stupid, because the largest provider of forensics for the judiciary and the police in Great Britain has now been dismissed.
[German]Here's a little tip for Office 365 administrators: Click-2-Run does not install any ODBC drivers for Microsoft Excel. Blog reader Karl Ebbing-Westerhaus (@tweet_alqama) has found a solution to the problem.
It seems that nearly 1K stores have been breached on July 4, 2019. They sending now card data to highjacked sites.
962 stores found breached on 4 July – Magecart are at it again and this time it looks automated. See what @gwillem and chums found https://t.co/2hTcjvfNzB
— Alan Woodward (@ProfWoodward) 5. Juli 2019
[German]Here is a tip for administrators in the corporate environment that I recently came across. It's about the PowerShell script of the week, Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS), which allows you to manage passwords for local accounts on domain computers.
[German]A brief note for corporate administrators who distribute updates using WSUS. Microsoft shuts down an endpoint before the next patchday. I would also like to remind you of the SHA2 migration issue.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
