[German]Due to a critical vulnerability in Microsoft's Credential Security Support Provider (CredSSP), the company plans to block RDP connections from unpatched clients to Windows Servers in the future. Administrators need to update all clients and servers, to avoid this situation.
[German]It seems that things went terribly wrong. Microsoft's Meltdown updates shipped in January 2018 and February for Windows 7 (and Server 2008 R2) intended to mitigate the Meltdown vulnerability rip open a huge security hole. This allows any process under Windows 7 to read and write to any memory area without exploits.
[German]If you are using the Slimjet browser, you should be careful with the selection of the default search engine at the moment. Slimjet developers has buried a nasty trick behind the offered Bing search engine entry – there is a redirection to fpseek.com.
[German]Mozilla has surprisingly released Firefox 59.0.1 on March 16, 2018. Now (March 26, 2018) a maintenance update to version 59.0.2 has been released.
[German]Is the Slimjet browser (a Google Chrome clone) moving towards Mozilla? Or does the developer moves to ship potentially unwanted software or even a backdoor? Within this blog post I address a a very strange observation some blog readers are observed.
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Just a not for administrators who are responsible for VMware ESX servers. Thcompany released various updates. Among other things, microcode updates to close the Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities are included.
[German]Mozilla's developers have released version 52.7.0 of Thunderbird email client. This is a maintenance update designed to fix some bugs in Thunderbird and closes a critical vulnerabilities.
The article has moved to my German blog, sorry, I posted it on the wrong site.
[German]Today a short article from the 'Do it yourself/fix it' department. I'm using a Kyocera FS-1030D laser printer since years (low printing costs, duplex and Postscript support). But that printer had been 'on strike' for a while, and a few days ago, that thing went into malfunction. All LEDs was flashed, printing was no longer possible. The waste toner container was full. But how to empty that thing?
[German]Samsung's flagships Galaxy S9 and S9+ has just hit the market. But there are already reports from device owners complaining about touch screen dead spot issues. The touch screens of the affected devices do not react at certain points. Samsung is investigating the whole thing right now.
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