[German]A worrying thing that may have happened in the USA. Users looking for a Google Chrome download in Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 were occasionally redirected to a page offering unwanted software (PUP).
[German]A vulnerability in the systemd component of some Linux distributions can be exploited over the network. A single DHCPv6 package is enough to provoke a crash or more.
[German]Owners of current Lenovo ThinkPad models who changes some UEFI/BIOS settings run the risk of breaking their devices. Here is some information.
IBM acquires Linux vendor Red Hat and will integrate Red Hat as a unit into its hybrid cloud division. Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst joins IBM's senior management team and reports to IBM CEO Ginni Rometty. The deal is worth $43 billion. That's the message of today's Sunday (here's the information from Red Hat, and here's a CNBC article on the subject).
[German]Microsoft have been used TPM chips from Infineon in Surface Pro 3. These chips probably contain vulnerabilities in some versions. Affected owners of a Surface Pro 3 should therefore install an TPM update.
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Microsoft has added an additional security feature to the Windows Defender included in Windows 10. Defender can be run in a protected sandbox environment from Windows 10 V1703 onwards.
On October 23, 2018, the developers released Tor Browser 8.0.3. This is a maintenance update that includes Firefox to 60.3.0esr and an updated Tor button. The Tor bundle supports anonymous surfing on the Internet.
A brief information for for people who still have Windows 10 Mobile devices and use them for handicrafts. René Lergner has released his bootloader unlocker code as Open Source.
[German]In Windows 7 (and other versions) there is a CBS.log bug that Microsoft should have known about for years. A Windows component writes data to a log file, which can become very large as a result. However, a function to compress the log file fails if this file becomes too large. Then the system drive will be filled with trash data.
[German]There is discussion that a design flaw (a bug) within the Universal Windows Platform API allows UWP app developers to access arbitrary user data. In Windows 10 V1809, Microsoft has tried to mitigate the bug – but then UWP apps crash.
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