[German]The home pages of the web apps for Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, etc.) can now be accessed via the new domain cloud.microsoft. Microsoft is thus implementing an announcement made in 2023.
[German]Once again a somewhat strange observation from the readership. I have received a report that Microsoft Office has recently been trying to prevent access to the domain aprimocdn.net. It seems to be a security issue, as can be seen from a dialog box.
[German]On February 11, 2025 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for Microsoft Office 2016, as well as the C2R variants (Office 2016-2021 and 365) and other products. Updates were also released for February 4, 2025. Below you will find an overview of the available updates.
[German]On February 11, 2025 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft) various cumulative updates were released for the supported versions of Windows Server. Below I have extracted the provided updates including some details for these Windows Server versions (from Windows Server 2012 to 2025).
[German]On February 11, 2025 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), Microsoft also released cumulative updates for the still supported versions of the client operating systems Windows 10 and Windows 11. Here are some details about these updates, which are intended to fix vulnerabilities and problems.
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[German]On February 11, 2025, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office – and for other products. The security updates eliminate 55 vulnerabilities (CVEs), three of which are classified as critical and four as 0-day. Below is a compact overview of these updates that were released on patchday.
[German]Microsoft updated its MS365 apps to build 18324.20194 at the end of January 2025. I have received user reports that since the upgrade to this build, Microsoft OneNote no longer starts on Windows Terminal Server (under Windows Server 2016).
[German]Apple has released an update to iOS 18.3.1 on 10.2.2025. It is an emergency update, so to speak, which is intended to close an exploitable vulnerability. The update also contains bug fixes. The update installation is recommended for all users of iOS devices.
[German]Microsoft has released the 2025 H1 Cumulative Update for Exchange Server 2019 on February 10, 2024. The CU15 is the last cumulative update for this Exchange version, which will then be withdrawn from support in October 2025. The CU15 contains all security changes that are included in the SU v2 from November 2024, as well as a correction for the known time zone problem in the SU from November 2024 (see also Microsoft Exchange Server Nov. Updates Re-Release (27. Nov. 2024)).
[German]International law enforcement organizations (FBI, Interpol), have seized the leak site of the ransomware group 8Base, with the participation of the Bavarian State Office of Criminal Investigation and on behalf of the Bamberg Public Prosecutor General's Office. In addition, four European suspects were arrested in Thailand.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
