Vulnerabilities in DigiEver DVRs are being exploited, no patch available

Posted on 2025-03-01 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[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.

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Fraud scam for WhatsApp contact requests

Posted on 2025-02-28 by guenni

[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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Microsoft kills Skype in May 2025; Teams to be the successor

Posted on 2025-02-28 by guenni

Skype[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.

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WhatsApp down (Feb. 28, 2025)

Posted on 2025-02-28 by guenni

[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.

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Vulnerability CVE-2025-0514 in LibreOffice – Fix with LibreOffice 24.8.5

Posted on 2025-02-28 by guenni

[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.

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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Outlook Classic: Microsoft fixes drag & drop bug

Posted on 2025-02-28 by guenni

[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.

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Windows 11 24H2: Performance issues with Intel Core Ultra 200 CPUs – Feb. 2025 update with side effects

Posted on 2025-02-28 by guenni

Windows[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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Windows 11 24H2: Update KB5051987 fails with installation error 0x800F0838

Posted on 2025-02-27 by guenni

Windows[German]I have come across a report that the February 2025 update KB5051987 can cause problems during installation. The update cannot be installed in Windows 11 24H2 and aborts with the error code 0x800F0838. The cause is probably a missing Servicing Stack Update (SSU). Here are a few information about this issue and how to fix it.

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Microsoft RDS activation fails – Clearinghouse server not reachable?

Posted on 2025-02-26 by guenni

Windows[German]A quick question for the administrators among the blog readership who are responsible for Remote Desktop Server. A reader has just informed me by email that there have been problems with RDS activation since Friday, February 21, 2025. The cause is that the Microsoft Clearinghouse server is simply unavailable. It looks like an outage – are there others affected?

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Windows 10/11: Preview Updates Feb. 2025

Posted on 2025-02-26 by guenni

Windows[German]Microsoft has released optional, cumulative (preview) updates for Windows 10 22H2 (KB5050081) and Windows 11 24H2 (KB5052093) as well as Windows 11 22H2-23H2 (KB5052094) on February 25, 2025. These updates contain corrections that can be tested and will then be rolled out generally as fixes in the following month. It should be noted that preview updates must be manually initiated for download and installation by default (although Windows 11 22H2 and higher contains options for automatic installation).

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