German authorities demands: Microsoft must disable Windows 10 data transfer

[German]Explosive development for Microsoft and their Windows 10? The data protection officer from Baden-Württemberg (Germany) has demanded that the data transfer in Windows 10 be switched off and improved as soon as possible. This is mandatory to fulfill the GPDR requirements in government environments.

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WannaCry ransomeware outbreak at Boeing

[German]The US aircraft manufacturer Boeing  fallen victim to a successful ransomeware attack. The malware is assigned to WannaCry Ransomeware, although its spread is probably limited

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Windows 10: It’s over soon … with Redstone

[German]Ha ha, just another pinch of useless knowledge. It's told, that Microsoft is ditching Windows 10 code name Redstone for the current development branch. They intend to switch to a different naming format.

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Microsoft will block RDP connections from clients soon

[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.

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Windows 7 Jan./Feb. 2018 patches opens Total Meltdown vulnerability

[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.

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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 ...


Slimjet browser: Beware of Bing search engine

Slimjet[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.

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Firefox 59.0.2 released

Mozilla[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.

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Is FlashPeak Inc. shipping Slimjet browser with a backdoor?

Slimjet[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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VMware: Updates for ESX-Server

Windows UpdateJust 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.

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Thunderbird 52.7.0

[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.

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