Android version distribution October 2017

[German]Google has published the statistics on the version distribution of Android for the past 14 days. For the first time Oreo appears in the statistics. Here are some details.

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Microsoft Office Patchday (October 3, 2017)

[German]On October 3, 2017, Microsoft released a series of non-security updates for Microsoft Office 2013 and Office 2016. This blog post provides an overview of released updates for Office 2013 and Office 2016.

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Knock-out: VMware Workstation 14 needs modern CPUs

[German]VMware has released version 14 of VMware Workstation and VMware Player virtualization software. But there is a bad surprise: The new Workstation 14 requires newer processors.

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VirtualBox is causing file system error (-1073741819)

[German]Another brief information for users of Windows 10 who install the operating system as a guest on VirtualBox and run it on the file system error (-1073741819).

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Just one Billion Windows users?

[German]Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, has been interviewed by Bloomberg. During this talk, he mentioned also the number of Windows users – which caused a surprise.

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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 ...


WannaCry infection stops Mercedes Benz production?

[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.

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Tails 3.2 released: BlueBorne-Fix and Linux Kernel 4.12

[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.

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Tor Browser 7.0.6 released

[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.

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Firefox 56 released – IndexDB bug fixed, new screenshot tool

Mozilla[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.

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Windows Debugger Preview with Time Travel Debug-Feature

[German]In the latest preview of the Windows debugger WinDbg, Microsoft has introduced a new Time Travel Debugging (TTD) function.

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