[German]Chinese firm oBike offers bikes to rent in major cities around the world. A data leak provided personal data of customers (name, email, location data) freely accessible via social networks.
[German]The Mozilla foundation has released Firefox version 57 – aka Firefox Quantum – mid of November 2017. Now they are providing a bug fix and security update, shifting the browser to version 57.0.1.
Interesting question: how many systems are running Windows 10? And how is the distribution of Windows 10 versions. Both data has been released November 29, 2017 or before.
[German]Clement Lefebvre, head of Linux Mint project, has announced the release of Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon and MATE. The variants with Xfce and KDE will bee released within this year. KDE will be the last release for Linux Mint.
[German]Microsoft has (re-)released some updates for Windows and .NET-Framework around November 22, – 27, 2017 on WSUS, but hasn't documented much. Here are a few details.
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[German]Microsoft has released also cumulative updates (November 27, 2017) for Windows 10, to fix also the existing Epson dot matrix printer issue. Here are a few details.
[German]Microsoft has released Monthly Preview Rollups KB4051034 for Windows 7 and KB4050946 for Windows 8.1 (and the server pendant) on November 27, 2017. Microsoft has also released a Monthly Preview Rollup KB4050945 for Windows Server 2012.
[German]Microsoft Office is shipped with old equation editor EQNEDT32.EXE that contains a vulnerability. This vulnerability is used by hacker to distribute malware.
[German]Here is an Information and Question addressing owners of HP Windows devices. It seems that Hewlett Packard silently installs a telemetry client on Windows computers. Here are a few details.
[German]The free Samba software contains a 'use-after-free' vulnerability in all versions since Samba 4.0 (released in 2012). A 2nd 'heap memory information leak' vulnerability is present since Samba version 3.6.0. Bit Linux distros are offering patches.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
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