Tor-Browser 8.5.1 released

Sicherheit[German]The developers of the Tor project released the new version 8.5 .1 of the Tor bundle for the desktop on June 4, 2019.

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Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18912 (20H1) in Fast Ring

Microsoft has released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18912 (from develoment branch 20H1) for Windows Insider in Fast Ring. There is an improved narrator and a couple of fixes – and a long list of know issues. The announcement with details about new features/changes and bugs can be found in the Windows Blog.

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Microsoft Office Patchday (June 4, 2019)

[German]On the first Tuesday of the month (Office Patchday) on June 4, 2019, Microsoft released a number of non-security updates for various versions of Microsoft Office that are still supported..

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Windows 10: New hints at 19H2 and broken Dark mode

[German]Even though Microsoft is currently testing builds from the Windows 10 20H1 development branch with Windows Insiders, the 19H2 development branch is making progress. This would give Microsoft's developers a chance to clean up the chaos in dark mode implementation.

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Windows Server 2016: Where to get Express-Updates for download?

[German]Since May 2019, Microsoft has stopped distributing Delta updates to Windows 10 and its server counterparts. These updates has been replaced by express updates. The problem a blog reader pointed out: Microsoft Update Catalog doesn't offer express updates for direct download yet. And if you want to download express updates via WSUS, you should provide a lot of free space on your hard disk.

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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 ...


Windows 10: Thunderbird from Microsoft Store

The e-mail client Thunderbird is available on various platforms, from Linux to macOS to Windows. The Open Source community has made Thunderbird available now for Windows 10 as an app from the Microsoft Store.

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Using Sysinternals Sysmon in Azure Sentinel

Azure Sentinel is a SIEM solution offered from Microsoft to see and stop threats before they cause harm. Olaf Hartong tested to use sysinternals tools Sysmon in Azure Sentinel.

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Operating-system-/Windows market share (May 2019)

[German]Since a few days the figures for the operating system and Windows market share are available. This blog post gives a short overview about this topic.

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Microsoft Windows 10 apps opens banner ads with fraudulent web pages

[German]Currently, there is an increase in the number of malicious banner ads that open fraudulent web pages in the standard browser when starting or using apps on Windows 10. Here are a few details what is know so far.

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BlueKeep: Patch for pirated copies; SSL tunnel as a risk factor

[German]It seems that Microsoft offers also patches against BlueKeep vulnerability for pirated copies of Windows XP and Windows 7. And Talos has a blog post about defend of encrypted RDP attacks like BlueKeep.

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