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Tag Archives: Security
Patchday: Windows 10/Server Updates (September 10, 2024)
[German]On September 10, 2024 (second Tuesday of the month, patch day at Microsoft), various cumulative updates were released for the supported Windows 10 builds (from the RTM version to the current version) as well as for the Windows Server counterparts. … Continue reading
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Tagged Patchday 9.2024, Security, Update, Windows 10, Windows Server
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Microsoft Security Update Summary (September 10, 2024)
[German]On September 10, 2024, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office – as well as for other products. The security updates eliminate 79 vulnerabilities (CVEs), including seven critical vulnerabilities, four of which are classified as 0-day … Continue reading
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Tagged Office, Patchday 9.2024, Security, Update, Windows
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Security Baseline for Edge version 128: Option blocks printer driver
[German]Microsoft has published the security baseline for Edge version 128 a few days ago. However, administrators should be careful when applying this security baseline. This is because the specifications ensure that users can no longer print because the printer drivers … Continue reading
US city of Columbus sues security researcher for reporting after cyber attack
[German]An unpleasant development in the USA, where the city of Columbus in Ohio was the victim of a ransomware attack. The mayor tried to play down the case, claiming that the data was useless to criminals. A security researcher looked … Continue reading
Facebook's moderation: Broken by design – how AI and community policy handling kick people
[German]Facebook recently changed its strategy regarding policy violations. With a lot of prose, users are supposed to be "educated" on policy violations in order to avoid such things – this is supposed to prevent the previous "blocks". Since "Facebook is … Continue reading
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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 ...
Veeam warns of critical RCE vulnerability CVE-2024-4071 in Backup & Replication
[German]Veeam warns of a critical RCE vulnerability in Backup & Replication. Blog reader j. pointed out the vulnerability yesterday in the discussion area (thanks for that) – but I had already heard about it elsewhere. The vulnerability CVE-2024-4071 was classified … Continue reading
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Password spraying attacks on (Sophos) firewalls from IP 92.53.65.166
[English]Brief information for administrators of Sophos firewalls – a reader has informed me that since September 5, 2024, he has been observing increased attempts to attack his Sophos firewalls. And the VPN portal in particular is being flooded with login … Continue reading
Zyxel Security Advisory September 2024 – Vulnerabilities in routers
[German]Zyxel has released security updates to close a critical vulnerability in several of its business routers. These vulnerabilities, rated with a CVSS v3 score of 9.8, may allow unauthenticated attackers to inject operating system commands. Updates are available to close … Continue reading
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Windows 11/Server 2024 SMB Security-Hardening
[German]In anticipation of the upcoming releases of Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 at the end of August 2024, Microsoft has published a tech community article on the topic of "SMB Security Hardening". The whole thing is part of … Continue reading
Scam-Warning: Fake Trojan alert (here shown via Facebook ads)
[German]Brief information for Facebook users. There are indications that a campaign is running via ads on Facebook, which pretends to be a fake Trojan in the browser and asks the user to call a "Microsoft support page". This is of … Continue reading