German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI): ‘Windows 10 is a Privacy Accident’

Posted on 2018-12-03 by guenni

German Federal Office for Information Security (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, BSI) certifies Microsoft in a new report – between the lines – that Windows 10 is a 'data protection and privacy accident'. Telemetry can hardly be switched off for normal users. According to the current report, the BSI is investigating the security features of the new operating system further. This is critical, because German authorities are using Windows 10.

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CCleaner 5.50 released

Posted on 2018-12-03 by guenni

[German]Just a brief information for CCleaner users, since I know that some of my blog readers are interested. Piriform has released end of November 2018 CCleaner 5.50, a free Windows cleaning and optimization tool. Continue reading →

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Cyber attack from russion ‘Snake’ group on German und US government agency and military

Posted on 2018-12-02 by guenni

[German]In November there seems to have been a new cyber attack campaign on German politicians, the Bundeswehr (German military) and German embassies. At the same time, new hacking attempts on US government agencies, think tanks, and businesses, the companies has become known. Russian hacker group Snake (aka Fancy Bear) are supposed to be the source of these attacks.

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Windows 10 V1803: Remote WMI causes error 0x80070005

Posted on 2018-12-02 by guenni

[German]In Windows 10 version 1803 and above remote WMI is no longer possible. A bug causes an error 0x80070005 during remote WMI operations. Here is some information about this topic.

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Windows 10 Version 1809: Update KB4469342 V3

Posted on 2018-12-02 by guenni

[German]Microsoft is still testing release cumulative update KB4469342 for Windows 10 V1809 with Windows Insiders. Now version 3 has made it to Microsoft's update servers. But the general rollout has not started yet.

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

[Sponsored Post]In the rapidly evolving IT world, choosing the right remote desktop software is critical for organizations that value security, ease of use and reliability. One provider of secure remote access that has been on the market since 2001 is ISL Online, which presents some considerations for choosing such software below. More ...

Surface Pro 6: No HDR streaming support?

Posted on 2018-12-01 by guenni

[German]It seems that Microsoft's latest innovation, the Surface Pro 6, can't stream HDR-quality content to external monitors or display such content to external devices via Displayport. 

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Thunderbird 60.3.2

Posted on 2018-11-30 by guenni

[German]Mozilla's developers have just released an update to Thunderbird 60.3.2. This is a maintenance update, which fixes some bugs, but also still has unresolved issues. Here is some information about it.

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Intel announced ‘Modern Windows Drivers’ (MWD)

Posted on 2018-11-30 by guenni

[German]Intel doesn't always have luck when it comes to graphics drivers for Windows. There has been many issues with Intel drivers within the past. Now Intel has announced  the 'Modern Windows Drivers' model (MWD) for Windows 10.

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Bing says VLC player site is malicious

Posted on 2018-11-29 by guenni

[German]Microsoft's search engine Bing is probably in a clinch with the Videolan website where the VLC player is hosted. The website is classified as 'dangerous'. Addendum: This fals warning has been fixed.

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OneDrive and Azure Data Lake Store down … (11/29/2018)

Posted on 2018-11-29 by guenni

[German]Anyone who currently has issues accessing the OneDrive cloud storage is not alone. It's not your system, it's Microsoft – the service is probably down at the moment. Also the Azure Data Lake Store is down..

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