[German]Brief addition to the series of problems with Windows 11 24H2, freshly released on October 1, 2024. Anyone using the camera on a system with this operating system runs the risk of other apps no longer working. This can affect, for example, logging in using Windows Hello. Microsoft confirmed this overnight (October 18, 2024) on its status page.
[German]Briefreminder for administrators – who certainly have the topic on their agenda: Microsoft will end support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in Azure on October 31, 2024.
[German]I am once again posting an unpleasant data breach on the blog that affects lessees in Europe. A reader has informed me that reduced value reports from TÜV Rheinland and Dekra inspectors are freely available on the Internet. It is therefore very easy to see when which vehicle was returned with which defects at the end of the leasing contract. Includes vehicle data and also personal data of the assessor. I reported the matter to the relevant data protection authorities in August, but nothing happened, so I am now disclosing it.
[German]An unpleasant story happened at German online retailer brillen.de. Due to a configuration error, the data of 3.5 million European customers was openly available on the Internet. It was therefore possible to see who had bought glasses there. Following a report, the provider quietly closed the leak.
[German]In Windows 11 24H2, Disk Management displays a data area of approx. 8.3 GB that was left over from the installation but cannot be deleted. Microsoft has now confirmed that this data area is displayed incorrectly and cannot be deleted.
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[German]Quickly asked about the status of the switch to the new Outlook app. There is an indication that the last Windows 10 update from October 2024 will carry out a forced update. And there was feedback that the new Outlook app is behaving sluggishly over time (it's fixed now). Microsoft classified the new Outlook as "business-ready" a few weeks ago.
[German]There are currently discussions that Microsoft's controversial Recall feature cannot be uninstalled [without collateral damage] under Windows 11 24H2, contrary to Microsoft's promise – but this is currently still in flux. In addition, Microsoft seems to have introduced something like "poor mans recall" in the snipping tool in Windows. I'll take up the two facts here in the article and summarize what I currently know.
[German]Microsoft has delivered several updates on October 2024 Patchday (update KB5044273 for Windows 10 22H2 for instance). The cumulative update also updates OpenSSH for Windows, which can lead to various problems. Users of Yubikey appear to be affected by this update, as has been reported.
[German]Successful investigation by US prosecutors against the group Anonymous Sudan, which was responsible for numerous DDoS attacks (including on Microsoft, Cloudflare, OpenAI, etc.). Two Sudanese brothers have been charged with operating the group and carrying out numerous DDoS attacks.
[German]An unpleasant story that has come to my attention. There is a report of a bug with Microsoft's cloud services that means that log files from security products in the Microsoft cloud have not been saved reliably. Some log files appear to be lost forever. This could prevent threat detection for Microsoft's cloud customers – which in turn raises security concerns about the reliability of Microsoft as a company and its cloud services.
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