Tag Archives: Sicherheit

Update to CCleaner 5.59.7230 installs CCleaner Browser PUP

Posted on 2019-07-19 by guenni

[German]Today a blog post about CCleaner. There is an update to version 5.59.7230 and I have a warning. Piriform installs the CCleaner browser, which also changes file type assignments.

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Surfaces get firmware updates with security fixes

Posted on 2019-06-29 by guenni

Microsoft has released a June 2019 UEFI firmware update with security fixes for its Surface models (Surface Laptop 1 and 2, Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book 1 and 2).

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Adobe Updates for Flash, Reader, Encoder (May 2019)

Posted on 2019-05-14 by guenni

[German]On 14 May 2019, Adobe released a series of critical updates for its Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader / Adobe Acrobat and Media Encoder.

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Critical Chrome vulnerability puts 32-bit Windows 7 at risk

Posted on 2019-03-08 by guenni

[German]The critical vulnerability reported in February 2019 has been closed on March 1, 2019 by a Google Chrome browser update. This vulnerability is active exploited in the wild, but only on 32-bit versions of Windows 7. Here are a few … Continue reading →

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Unsecure Dali app reveals 5 million user records

Posted on 2019-03-05 by guenni

[German]The telephone directory app Dali, very popular in Saudi Arabia and some Arab countries, is insecure and discloses the entire database of user data to third parties. Security researchers from VPN-Mentor pointed this out to me in an e-mail.

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Microsoft Patchday: Other Updates February 12, 2019

Posted on 2019-02-14 by guenni

[German]On February 12, 2019 (Patchday), Microsoft has released additional updates for Internet Explorer, Windows Server, etc. In this blog post the respective patches are added, which are not contained in the remaining articles linked at the end of the article.

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Windows 10: Microcode Updates February 2019

Posted on 2019-02-06 by guenni

Microsoft has released microcode updates for Windows 10 V1607 through 1809. These are revised versions of Intel Microcode Updates that will be rolled out in February 2019.

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Updated NSA Guidance on Side-Channel Vulnerabilities

Posted on 2019-02-02 by guenni

Short information for the weekend. On February 1, 2019, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) published updated guidelines on side-channel vulnerabilities.

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Microsoft Security Update Summary (January 8, 2019)

Posted on 2019-01-09 by guenni

[German]As of January 8, 2019, Microsoft released several security updates for Windows clients and servers, Office, etc. Below is a compact overview of these updates and some notes.

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Microsoft Edge: PoC for Remote Execution Vulnerability

Posted on 2019-01-06 by guenni

[German]A security researcher has published an exploit code as a Proof of Concept (PoC) that exploits a remote execution vulnerability in the JavaScript engine of Microsoft Edge.

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