[German]Strange story that's going around right now. In German factories of car maker Mercedes Benz (Daimler AG) production computers are supposed to be infected with WannaCry ransomware. Also vendor Festo is claimed to be infected with WannaCry.
[German]The developers of the Linux distribution Tails has released the new version 3.2. Apart from minor improvements there are several security fixes. The maintainers of the distribution strongly recommend to upgrade to this version.
[German]The Tor project has released Tor browser 7.0.6 for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X on September 26, 2017. An Update is recommended.
[German]Mozilla developers has released Firefox browser version 56 for Windows, Linux and macOS. Beside a screenshot tool there are many improvements and also fixes under the hood.
[German]In the latest preview of the Windows debugger WinDbg, Microsoft has introduced a new Time Travel Debugging (TTD) function.
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[German]Microsoft hasn't been too successful with the latest updates for Outlook. Every update shipped for Outlook during the last months is causing issues. Since May 2017, one patch after the other has been causing problems. Here is the attempt to compile some information about Outlook patch issues end of September 2017.
[German]Oracle has just closed critical vulnerabilities in its Apache Struts 2 framework. A vulneraby CVE-2017-9805 in Struts version 2.5 – 2.5.12 had become known a few weeks ago. Version 2.5.13 doesn't contain this vulnerability. Oracle has released this document dealing with an update for Apache Struts 2 and recommends to update related versions immediately.
Microsoft has released a Firmware update for Surface Pro that contains new WiFi and Bluetooth drivers for this device.
[German]There is currently some confusion about the iOS 11.0.1 maintenance update released by Apple last night. Apple claims, that the mail bug regarding Outlook.com, Office365 and Exchange has been fixed. But I got some feedback from German users, that nothing has been fixed – and new issues occur.
Google will release Chrome 61.0.3163.100 during automatic update, to fix several vulnerabilities found in this browser.
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