[German]The company STIGA, active as a supplier in the field of robotic lawnmowers, gardening equipment and sporting goods, has suffered a data protection incident. A reader had made enquiries and received confirmation from the provider. Customer data has been leaked and is now being offered on the Darknet.
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[German]A blog reader pointed me to an issue with the new Outlook app. The app could no longer create new calendar entries for his Gmail account. However, there is a workaround, and a new version with bug fixes should be available by now.
[German]ESET Research has discovered the first Linux UEFI boot kit and named it Bootkitty. This Linux UEFI boot kit was uploaded to Virustotal in early November 2024 and came to the attention of the security researchers.
[German]Microsoft is not really having a good run with its security updates for Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019. The version of the security updates released on November 12, 2024 had to be withdrawn due to a bug. Version 2, released on November 27, 2024, contains a time zone bug that Microsoft has already acknowledged.
[German]ACROS Security has developed a fix for a previously unknown 0-day vulnerability in the Mark of the Web security feature of Windows Server 2012 and Server 2012 R2. The fix is available to customers via a 0patch micro-patch and enables the affected installations to be secured.
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[German]Another problem that I would like to share with the readership – perhaps there are others affected and new insights. A reader complained in an e-mail this week about the slow screen loading when using a remote desktop connection (RDP) under Windows 11 24H2.
[German]A German blog reader recently shared an observation from his IT department with me. An employee was bombed by a veritable wave of spam mail (more than 1,000/hour). All the emails had some kind of confirmation for a registration, which aroused my suspicions.
[German]Microsoft has re-released the pulled security updates for Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 on November 27. With the first release, it turned out that the transport rules no longer worked after the update installation. Microsoft now believes it has fixed the problems and is making the November 2024 security updates available again.
[German]This is a critical issue that I have come across recently and illustrates the risk of IT shutdowns by vendors/manufacturers or countries. The Chinese manufacturer Deye, also represented in German balcony power plants and solar system installations with inverters, has switched off such devices in the USA, Great Britain, Pakistan and several other countries as of November 15, 2024. The solar systems are dead!
[German]If you own a business PC HP Prodesk 600 G4 with Windows 11 23H2, you could run into problems when upgrading to Windows 11 24H2. The sound from the Synaptics audio unit is missing after the upgrade because the driver provided by HP causes problems. However, blog reader Markus Grosche sent me a workaround by e-mail and in the discussion area, with which you can "get sound again" (thanks for that).
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