Adobe has released Adobe Shockwave Player 12.3.5.205 (Release Notes do not exist). This will be the last update, because the Adobe Shockwave Player will be finally discontinued for end customers on April 9, 2019 – only corporate customers still get the software. Anyone there who still needs to use the Shockwave player?
[German]Microsoft has stopped the distribution of Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18362 (from the 19H1 development branch) in Slow Ring because of an installation issue. Addendum: A workaround to recover from this mess has been discovered.
[German]Microsoft has found two serious vulnerabilities in a driver and in PC Manager for Windows, both provided by Chinese company Huawei. These vulnerabilities allow local privileges escalation. Updates are available since in January 2019.
On March 25, 2019, the Mozilla developers have released the email client Thunderbird version 60.6.1. This is a maintenance update which closes security gaps. Here is some information about it.
[German]Users who installed the ASUS Live Update Utility on their computers were probably infected between June and November 2018 with a backdoor. According to Gartner, ASUS was the 5th largest computer manufacturer in 2017, and the number of people affected is correspondingly high (estimated at 1 million). For a long time, the backdoor was not detected by common virus protection solutions. Luck for many victims: The attackers had specific targets in mind which were spied on via this backdoor.
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[German]Within this blog post I've collected some more details about EOL notification update KB4493132 for Windows 7 SP1. Who gets it? When will there be the first notification and what does it look like? There are answers for these questions and more.
[German]Last week Microsoft released a public preview of the Windows Virtual Desktop. This allows to virtualize Windows 7 for mobile workplaces. Microsoft provides Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows 7 SP1 until 2023 free of charge for this platform.
Windows Calc app is located on billions of computers, because it is sipped with Windows. Recently the source code of the program was released as Open Source on GitHub. Some people have inspected the program code, and came to the conclusion, that's a nightmare. Memory leaks, clipboard content goes to Microsoft server, calculation errors and more.
A nasty story about Nokia: Owners of som eNokia 7 Plus phones has had their activation data sent to the mobile network operator China Mobile. Also switching the device on, transfers data.
Another small addendum: Microsoft released the System Center 2019 on March 14, 2019. Previously, System Center 2019 had been in a private preview by customers of the Windows Server Technical Adoption Program (TAP) since December 2018.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
