[German]Welcome to 2019 – especially for Microsoft's customers, who are relating to updates. Noting new this year: Microsoft has pulled the four updates issued for Office 2010 on January 2, 2019, to enable the new Japanese calendar.
[German]Another issue with Windows 10 version 1809, which I would like to discuss here. The User Profile Service populated the event log with warnings (Event ID 1534).
[German]There is a critical vulnerability in the Netatalk (Apple AFP) system software used by Synology NAS devices. Attackers could remotely execute malicious code on the device. A security update is available for affected devices. And Synology has issued two warnings about additional vulnerabilities in Synology software.
[German]For the first Tuesday of the month (Office Patchday), Microsoft has released some non-security updates for Microsoft Office 2010, Office 2013, and Office 2016 on January 2, 2019.
[German]At the end of the year 2018 a new 0-day bug in Windows became known, which allows attackers to overwrite files. Here is some information about this new bug.
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[German]Windows 10 insiders testing the 19H1 should not install the KB4483214 update. This does raise the build to 18305.1003. But afterwards the sandbox cannot be used anymore.
[German]A brief note for Windows 10 users working with the Build-In Account Administrator. When you upgrade to the October 2018 update (Windows 10 v1809), this account is disabled in some cases.
[German]At the end of 2018, the provider of security solutions, Malwarebytes, has given an outlook on IT security in 2019 and publishes some predictions.
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[German]A brief information for users of the packing program 7-Zip. Developer Igor Pavlov has updated the Windows version of the program available for various platforms to version 18.06 as of December 30, 2018 (thanks to blog reader Georg S. for the tip).
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
