[German]It's an old bug that can annoy Windows 10 users. Internet Explorer crashes in Windows 10 from version 1607 up to 1809 and Windows Server 2016/2019 under certain conditions and can no longer be used. Microsoft has now officially confirmed the bug and provided information on how to fix it until a patch is available.
[German]The German Federal Office for Information Security (German: Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik – BSI) currently warns of four Android smartphone models from China in whose firmware malware has been found.
[German]The developers of VideoLan released the VLC Player version 3.0.7 for Linux, macOS and Windows a few days ago (June 6, 2019). This version closes some vulnerabilities of the previous versions.
[German]Microsoft is now releasing the Windows 10 May 2019 Update (Version 1903) for all users who manually search for this feature update. Here is some information about what this means and whether you have to or should act.
[German]In a recent article, the CERT Coordination Center warns that Microsoft Windows RDP Network Level Authentication also works with LockScreen locked Windows.
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[German]A security researcher has developed another Metasploit for due BlueKeep vulnerability in Windows Remote Desktop Services. Currently it is not released yet, because the developer considers the whole thing too risky (because of nearly one million unpatched systems).
Security researchers at vpnmentor have discovered a vulnerability in JCrush that could have be used to access private user data. Here are some hints on this case.
[German]The blog post discusses a How To the question of how end users and administrators can easily check whether their systems with Windows XP to Windows 7 as well as their server counterparts are provided with a patch for the critical vulnerability BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708) or are vulnerable. In addition, a brief explanation of how a network can be scanned for vulnerable computers is given.
[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.
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.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
