[German]Last week, I received information that Blue Yonder had fallen victim to a ransomware attack. As the company probably also offers its services in Germany, I am taking up the case here in the blog. Customers of the company should be prepared to become the target of further attacks.
[German]Microsoft plans to switch certain Microsoft 365 user groups from Outlook Classic to the new Outlook app from the beginning of 2025. Some people has developed remediation solutions to prevent this. Here is a solution I came across yesterday.
[German]The Browser Choice Alliance accuses Microsoft of actively restricting users' choice of browser. Microsoft is said to be hindering consumers' ability to use alternative web browsers by forcing users to use Edge despite other options.
[German]Google has updated its GMail Workspace Sync so that the program is compatible with Windows 11 24H2. This means that Microsoft Outlook can be used with Google Workspace under this operating system. The fix was announced on December 5, 2024, but requires the installation of the latest GMail Workspace Syc.
[German]A quick question or information for the readers of the blog who use Citrix Netscaler Gateways. Were you able to observe a massive increase in attack attempts on these instances yesterday evening? A blog reader has just informed me about a corresponding observation by e-mail (thanks for the info).
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[German]ACROS Security has discovered a vulnerability in Windows that has not yet been closed by an update and allows the disclosure of NTLM hash values via URL. ACROS Security has released an opatch micropatch to fix this vulnerability. Until Microsoft provides an update, the opatch micropatch is available free of charge.
[German]Microsoft has begun rolling out Windows 11 24H2 (referred to as Windows 11 2024 Update), which will be generally released in October 2024, to more devices. Microsoft has also confirmed that TPM 2.0 is mandatory for Windows 11. On the other hand, there are people who experience that Windows 11 24H2 can be installed on hardware that is not compatible without any tricks. Here is a summary article with an overview of these topics.
[German]Since November 2024, the PST import into a Microsoft 365 tenant using a SAS URL was broken. The import process was aborted with an error 500. Microsoft seems to have fixed the problem as of December 3, 2024.
Cybernews research found out, that a safe linking service accidentally leaked millions of links that were meant to be private and exposed who created them. Researchers discovered that Safelinking.net, a platform designed to protect and manage links, had publicly leaked a tremendous amount of user data that was supposed to be protected. Apart from making 30 million private links public, the platform also exposed the account data of over 156,000 users.
[German]Another addendum from November 2024: On November 19, 2024, Microsoft fixed a problem caused by the security update KB5002653 from November 12, 2024 in Microsoft Excel 2016 (MSI version). Add-ins could no longer be loaded there.
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