[German]Since December 6, 2025, some users are reporting login issues caused by Microsoft's new Outlook desktop app for Windows. The app refuses a loging and drops an error 0x80049dd3. Although Microsoft claimed they have fixed it the other day, it seems unfixed and is now again under investigation.
[German]The cumulative update KB5048667 for Windows 11 24H2 released on December 10, 2024 seems to be causing problems for some users. Some users receive an error during installation. Gamers are complaining about loss of performance in games. Here is a brief overview of the known problems.
[German]In 2023, Microsoft had to admit to hacks of its Exchange Online and Azure services. Bloomberg is now reporting that Amazon has paused its plans to roll out Microsoft 365 in the company. This is due to security concerns following the hack by the alleged Russian group Midnight Blizzard.
[German]A short addendum from Friday, December 13, 2024, which may be relevant for administrators of an IBM Domino server. A reader pointed out to me that these servers require special attention with regard to a possible restart. Because after the restart, email forwarding on this Domino server no longer works. However, there are now fixes.
[German]Security researchers have taken a closer look at the infotainment system in Skoda vehicles (belongs to Volkswagen car manufacturer group). They discovered several vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to remotely trigger certain functions on the vehicle and track the location of the cars in real time.
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[German]I'm presenting a problem here in the blog that I came across while browsing Microsoft's Answers forums. On some systems, after upgrading to Windows 11 24H2, clients are unable to access a network, either via LAN or WLAN. The cause is a missing gateway entry that cannot be requested by the DHCP server due to a bug. It also does not help to enter the gateway manually, as it is lost again after the restart. An update from November 2024 seems to provide a remedy.
[German]NTLM relaying is a popular attack method used by threat actors to compromise identity. Microsoft wants to put a stop to this and has started to roll out protective measures in Windows to provide better protection against standard NTLM relay attacks.
[German]Users have been reporting for months that the desktop background "Windows Spotlight" is unintentionally activated by rolled out cumulative updates in Windows 10 22H2. Happened again in December 2024 with the KB5048652 update. Here is some information and a note on how administrators can prevent this if necessary.
[German]A few days ago, I warned in the blog post Massive wave of attacks on Citrix Netscaler gateways since 5, and 6, Dec. 2024? about a massive wave of attempted attacks on Citrix Netscaler gateways since around Dec. 5, 2024. Now the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) – the German CERT-Bund – is also warning of attacks on Citrix Netscaler gateways.
[German]Recall was withdrawn by Microsoft in summer 2024 due to serious security flaws. Now Microsoft is in the process of rolling out its "and really secure" version of Recall, which has been revised over months, to Windows Insiders again. What could possibly go wrong? Testers were surprised to discover that the new Recall is a nightmare. Despite the appropriate setting, confidential documents with credit card data etc. are also recorded. Oh what a surprise …
MVP:
2013 – 2016
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2017 – 2020
