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.
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[German]A new method of attacking Wi-Fi connections encrypted/secured via WPA/WPA2 using PMKID has become public. Here are a few details what is known so far.
[German]Google announced on August 6, 2018, Android 9.0 and released it for the Google Pixel. The name of the new Android 9.0 version is a surprise: It has become Android Pie.
[German]Microsoft now doesn't want to discontinue the classic Skype v7.x client. The Redmond based company granted a grace period to Skype v7.x client, in which the respective service will be continued.
[German]Mozilla's developers have just completed the final of the Thunderbird 60 email client. This version is currently not distributed via update, but must be downloaded by the user.
[German]Here is a security notification for users of HP inkjet printers. HP has discovered vulnerabilities in the firmware of various printers that allow remote code execution.
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