[German]Another addendum for people who use HPE Integrated Lights-Out 2,3,4 (iLO2, iLO3, iLO4) and HPE Superdome Flex RMC from HP Enterprise. There is a potential vulnerability in these products.
[German]Just a short information: Kaspersky Secure Mail Gateway had several vulnerabilities, which were closed at the beginning of the month with an update.
Developers of the LineageOS community have announced the availability of LineageOS 15.1 (based on Android 8.1, Oreo) for several devices. But there are not only a new LineageOS version, also new rules for supported devices has been defined.
[German]Just a brief view of Facebook's approach of securing users with malware protection. The 'Malware protection' attempt of the social network causes some Facebook users a lot of trouble and prevents them from logging in.
[German]Microsoft released various updates for Windows 7 to Windows 10 (including servers) and Internet Explorer on February 21 and 22, 2018. Here is an overview of these updates.
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[German]Intel released another batch of microcode updates (to OEMs) to close the Spectre V2 vulnerability for 6th, 7th and 8th generation Intel CPUs.
[German]I don't know if anyone else is using Bittorrent via the uTorrent client or their web client. For security reasons, you should not use the these clients any more.
[German]Many users are knowing 7-Zip as a tool for unpacking archive files. The software is free of charge and is also available in a portable version for Windows. In addition, 7-Zip is also used in various products. Funny world? Unfortunately, there is a dark side of 7-Zip, because the tool is potentially a huge security risk. Here are some hints about what you should know – and a final piece of advice. Addendum: Newer versions of 7-Zip are using build options like ASLR and DEP.
[German]Windows 10 had a bug, that allowed malware to trick Windows 10's Anti-Malware Scan Interface (AMSI) by including a null character. The character simply caused the code not to be scanned. The bug was fixed on February 2018 patchday.
[German]Microsoft has released some details about the limitations of Windows 10 on ARM last weekend. But a few hours later, the documents on the web that refer to the limitations of Windows 10 on ARM has been reworked, and relevant passages are deleted. Apparently this information published on Saturday should not be made public in this way. Fortunately, the details are known.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
