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Millions of Gearbest’s user data are unprotected online
[German]The Chinese online shopping platform Gearbest has more than 199 million visitors per month and is probably well known to many users. Security researchers have found that the databases of Gearbest and a number of other online shops of the … Continue reading
Patchday Windows 10-Updates (March 12, 2019)
[German]On March 12, 2019 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft) several cumulative updates have been released for the supported Windows 10 builds. Here are some details about each update.
Microsoft Security Update Summary (March 12, 2019)
[German]As of March 12, 2019, Microsoft released numerous security updates for Windows clients and servers, Office, etc. Here is a compact overview about these update.
Notepad++: Developer no longer ships a digital signature
Don Ho, developer of Windows editor Notepad++, announced that he no longer digitally sign the code starting with version 7.6.4.
Windows 7 Extended Security Updates buyable from April 2019
[German]Microsoft offers Extended Security Updates for Windows 7 SP1 for companies until January 2023. This extended support can be bought from April 1, 2019 (hope it's not an April fools prank).
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 ...
Windows 10 V1809: Enable Retpoline Spectre V2 protection
[German]Microsoft introduces Retpoline as protection against Spectre 2 attacks in Windows 10 (Version 1809 and later). So far, however, Retpoline is disabled on Windows 10 clients. Admins of Windows 10 V1809 can already activate the Retpoline Spectre 2 protection manually … Continue reading
Google Chrome 72.0.3626.121 closes critical vulnerability
Users of the Google Chrome browser should update it to 72.0.3626.121 as soon as possible. The background is that Google has closed a critical vulnerability with the new version, which is now being actively exploited in the wild.
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Urgent Adobe ColdFusion security update
[German]Adobe ColdFusion users should update to the latest version immediately. Adobe has closed a critical vulnerability that is already being exploited with a security update.
Vulnerability in Amazon’s Ring doorbell
[German]IoT security experts from BullGuard and Dojo have uncovered a previously unknown vulnerability in the networked video doorbell of the Amazon subsidiary Ring: audio and/or video material was transmitted unencrypted to the ring app and was therefore vulnerable to external … Continue reading
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver Security Bulletin Feb. 2019
Nvidia released a security update for the NVIDIA GPU Display Driver and issued a Security Bulletin: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver – February 2019. Within the Security Bulletin: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver – February 2019 Nvidia announded the releas of a … Continue reading