[German]At the current Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, security researchers showed how easy it was to use Cortana ito bypass security functions under Windows 10. Microsoft has closed (come of) the vulnerabilities.
Microsoft issued another Microsoft Security Advisory on August 8, 2018. This concerns notes for Microsoft Surface devices regarding the Speculative Store Bypass (ADV180012) and Rogue System Register Read (ADV180013) vulnerabilities.
[German]Mozilla's developers have released an (unscheduled) update to Firefox 61.0.2. This update brings some bug fixes (if I haven't overlooked anything but no security fixes). In addition, a new, practical function (automatic recovery) is introduced for Windows
[German]Security researchers have analyzed smartphones on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). They found vulnerabilities in devices from four major U.S. carriers that can be exploited.
[German]Administrators who want to join a domain with clients running Windows 10 V1803 Pro or Enterprise may run into a problem. A bug prevents the domain join. So far I am not aware that Microsoft has fixed this. But there is a workaround in the form of an offline domain join using djoin.
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Surprise: The Samsung Galaxy S7 is also affected by the meltdown vulnerability, although no Intel CPU is working there. This was announced to Reuters by security researchers from the University of Graz. Researchers Daniel Gruss, Moritz Lipp and Michael Schwarz will present details at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas today.
[German]A little Schadenfreude and a nice story for for annoyed Windows users who are facing a bricked system after an update install. Also happens to more prominent people, like Mr. Steven Sinofsky…
[German]Firefox developers are starting again a (security) war against it's users by attempting, to implement DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) and Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) into Firefox browser. But Mozilla's way to do that, is a Single Point of Failure (SPOF). Here is some information on the subject and why this is bad, bad, bad.
[German]On the first Tuesday of each month (Office Patchday) on August 7, 2018, Microsoft released non-security updates for Microsoft 2013 and Office 2016.
[German]Ransomware WannaCry, known since2017, hits Taiwanese chip manufacturer TSMC last Friday and shut down various production fabs. Here is some information on the subject.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
