Mozilla's developers released Firefox version 65.0.2 as a browser for Windows, Linux and macOS on February 28, 2019. This is a maintenance update that, according to the release notes, fixes an issue with geolocalization services
[German]In Cisco WebEx Meetings, a new Elevation of Privilege vulnerability was discovered in the Windows app that allows an attacker to execute commands with system privileges.
Microsoft has released a hotfix for Configuration Manager, version 1810, that fixes installation problems during update installation. Here are a brief overview.
Mozilla's developers have released version 60.5.2 of the Thunderbird email client on February 25, 2019. This is a maintenance update which fixes some bugs. Here is some information about it.
[German]12 months after the first announcement and many months of testing, Microsoft has announced the general availability of the Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) feature of Windows Defender ATP for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.
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Some people are color blind and cannot see colored dots within a pattern. Microsoft has begun to support a Colorblind mode in Windows 10 for affected people.
Microsoft has released a cumulative update KB4491113 for Internet Explorer, which fixes the so-called backslash bug in the browser. This came into effect with the February 2019 updates in Windows 7-10.
A brief note for people who use unpackers like WinRAR and depend on the ACE format or can't fix the discovered vulnerability (CVE-2018-20250) in UNACEV2.DLL. There is a micro-patch available to fix the vulnerability.
[German]Another brief information for users of the free packing program 7-Zip. The developer Igor Pavlov has updated the Windows version of the program available for various platforms to version 19.00 as of February 21, 2019.
Just a short note for Windows users and administrators. Mark Russinovich released the tools SYSMON v9.0 and AUTORUNS v13.94 from the Sysinternals suite on February 19, 2019.
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