[German]Microsoft has been trying for some time to secure the Secure Boot in Windows against the Black Lotus Boot Kit vulnerability CVE-2023-24932. Below is a short summary or FAQ, including the certificate to be exchanged in the boot media. And a reader has sent me his script for exchanging certificates.
[German]Microsoft has been offering virtual machines with Windows for developers to test for years. These VMs contain a version of Windows that can run for 90 days. I have now received a note from a reader that the content is no longer available "due to technical difficulties" since October 2024.
[German]Microsoft seems to be working again on making its users (un)happy with unsolicited special offers. A German blog reader sent me a screenshot in which he was offered to set up Windows for personalized offers. And another German blog reader has been surprised that Microsoft CoPilot is suddenly being installed on his system as part of Microsoft 365.
[German]DigiEver from Taiwan offers IP video surveillance based on Linux. Security researchers from TXOne discovered RCE vulnerabilities in DigiEver products back in July 2023. The provider does not provide updates because the devices have reached the end of support. Since December 2024, it has been observed that a botnet called Hail Cock has exploited one of these bugs, as the vulnerability is still open. Users must therefore react.
[German]Brief information for WhatsApp users among our readership (or to pass on to these users). The Lower Saxony Criminal Police Office (LKA) is warning of a new scam targeting WhatsApp users in Dec. 2024 and asking them to check their chat.
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[German]Brief information for users of Microsoft's Skype service. There is a report from XDA-Developers that Microsoft will shut down the Skype service in May 2025. Users should then use Teams as a successor.
[German]Brief information for WhatsApp users among the readership (or to pass on to these users). The meta service seems to be experiencing a major outage.
[German]The LibreOffice developers have released LibreOffice 24.8.5 to close a link vulnerability CVE-2025-0514. The vulnerability could allow links to be abused.
[German]Microsoft has published a support article stating that a bug in the drag & drop functionality of Outlook Classic has been fixed. The bug crept in via the January 2025 update and probably occurred under Windows 11 24H2.
[German]The next blog reader with performance problems under Windows 11 24H2 has reached me. The reader set up a system with an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K CPU on an ASRock Z890 Pro RS mainboard and installed Windows 11 24H2. Then he ran into massive problems. He has since been able to verify the behavior on a notebook. In addition, there is another reader message reporting unsightly effects of the February 2025 update under Windows 11.
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