[German]What can be more embarrassing than being associated with compromising videos and all email contacts are informed? Security analysts at Barracuda Networks have found that it is twice as likely for employees to become the target of a sextortion attack as through Business Email Compromise (BEC). The education sector is particularly at risk.
The developers of the Tor project released an update to Tor Browser 8.0.7 on March 19, 2019. This is a maintenance update that updates Firefox 60.6.0esr and various other components and fixes bugs.
[German]On March 19, 2019, Microsoft released a Preview Rollup Update KB4489892 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. At the same time a Preview Rollup Update KB4489893 for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 was released.
[German]Microsoft has released update KB4493132 for Windows 7 SP1. This is the notification update for the end of support of this operating system. Here is some information about this update.
[German]On March 19, 2019, Microsoft had a worldwide issue for several hours with its antivirus solutions (Windows Defender, Microsoft Security Essentials, System Center Endpoint Protection). Especially the failure of System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) hit enterprise customers hard. The reason: The signature definition 1.289.1521.0 (and 1.289.1512.0) caused MsMpEng.exe to crash. Microsoft has fixed this bug in the meantime.
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A few days ago Microsoft released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18356 in Fast Ring (see Windows 10: Insider Preview 18356 in Fast Ring). As of March 15, 2019, this build was released as Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18356.1 in the Slow Ring according to this addendum in the Windows Blog. Now Microsoft has released another cumulative update KB4494123 for this build, which lifts the build to 18356.16. The purpose of this 'bigger' update is to test a test of the service pipeline with a bigger update. At the same time there was the announcement that an Insider Preview Build 18356.1 for Windows Server vNext was released.
[German]Microsoft has released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18361 in Fast Ring. The development branch 19H1 is expected to end in April 2019 as Windows 10 V1903.
[German]Just a reminder for administrators in business environments who are still using so-called delta updates. On April 9, 2019, Microsoft will release such delta updates for Windows 10 for the last time.
[German]On March 12, 2019, Microsoft released updates for SHA-2 support for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008/R2 as well as WSUS 3.0 SP2. Here is some information about this topic and some hints about first issues.
A short supplement from last week. Microsoft has released some Security Advisory Notifications and Update Revision Notifications for March 12 and 14, 2019.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
