Ethical hackers from vpnmentor found an unprotected database on the net on a cloud server. The data base contains sensitive data from 80 million US households. And no one knows who owns the database.
[German]After April 2019 patchday, some Windows 7 users are confronted with a curiosity. Windows Update or WSUS suddenly provide the security update KB3185319 for Internet Explorer from 2016.
[German]A brief of information for users of Sophos enterprise security solutions. Sophos has just begun to deliver an update to correct the Windows patchday problems caused by its products. Here is some information on the subject.
[German]On April 25, 2019, Microsoft released a Preview Rollup Update KB4493453 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. At the same time a preview rollup update KB4493443 for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 was released. Addendum: There is also an update KB4496878 with patches for the Japanese new date.
[German]The banking Trojan CARBANAK is well known for some malware attacks and digital raids in recent years. Now security researchers have discovered the source code on VirusTotal and
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[German]A little addendum to the April patchday issues in Windows, which were caused by third party antivirus scanners. In the meantime, the root cause for this behavior is known.
[German]Google's developers have released the new version 74 of the Google Chrome browser on April 23, 2019. The new Chrome 74.0.3729.108 contains improvements and security fixes.
[German]Users of Windows systems may experience an unpleasant surprise. Microsoft seems to block the upgrade to the Windows 10 May 2019 Update (Version 1903) as soon as external USB storage devices are found in the system. Here is some information on this topic.
What can we do, if Internet pages are not accessible due to TLS issues and the browser only displays error messages because communication via TLS/SSL fails?
[German]Occasionally, Windows users are facing an update error 0x80246001 and the update install process aborts. This can occur on Windows 7 to Windows 10, but also on Microsoft Office. Here is some information about this error.
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