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Microsoft is warning Windows users about a new unpatched critical vulnerability being exploited in the wild.
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March security updates include 115 CVEs patching everything from Windows, Office and Microsoft’s new Chromium-based Edge web browser. Continue reading Microsoft Patches 26 Critical Bugs in Big March Update
With the next version of Windows 10, coming this spring, Microsoft’s Cortana digital assistant will lose a number of consumer skills around music and connected homes, as well as some third-party skills. That’s very much in line with Microsoft’s new focus for Cortana, but it may still come as a surprise to the dozens of […] Continue reading Microsoft’s Cortana drops consumer skills as it refocuses on business users
More than 55 percent of medical imaging devices – including MRIs, XRays and ultrasound machines – are powered by outdated Windows versions, researchers warn. Continue reading BlueKeep Flaw Plagues Outdated Connected Medical Devices
More than 55 percent of medical imaging devices – including MRIs, XRays and ultrasound machines – are powered by outdated Windows versions, researchers warn. Continue reading BlueKeep Flaw Plagues Outdated Connected Medical Devices
As an early domain name investor, Mike O’Connor had by 1994 snatched up several choice online destinations, including bar.com, cafes.com, grill.com, place.com, pub.com and television.com. Some he sold over the years, but for the past 26 years O’Connor refused to auction perhaps the most sensitive domain in his stable — corp.com. It is sensitive because years of testing shows whoever wields it would have access to an unending stream of passwords, email and other proprietary data belonging to hundreds of thousands of systems at major companies around the globe. Continue reading Dangerous Domain Corp.com Goes Up for Sale
Hundreds of millions of Windows 10 users are having an important patch rolled out to their computers today after Microsoft was warned by the NSA of a serious security hole in the operating system.
Continue reading Critical Windows 10 security fix pushed out after NSA warns Microsoft of spying vulnerability
January 14, 2020, is a day cybersecurity stakeholders should pay attention to, as it marks the end of Microsoft support in Windows 7.
From a security perspective, both the routine monthly security patches as well as hotfixes for attacks in the wild wi… Continue reading Are You Ready for Microsoft Windows 7 End of Support on 14th January 2020?
During our investigation, we discovered that yet another 0-day exploit (CVE-2019-1458) was used in Operation WizardOpium attacks. Continue reading Windows 0-day exploit CVE-2019-1458 used in Operation WizardOpium
Every few years, Microsoft causes some panic across industry sectors by announcing the end-of-life of one of its older Windows operating systems. In this case, Windows 7 is going “end of life” on Jan. 14, meaning Microsoft will no longer be regularly updating the system with fixes when a security vulnerability is found. The company is urging users – both consumer and enterprise – to update their systems to the latest operating system: Windows 10. As the weeks tick down until the deadline, the question becomes: how big of a security threat is this? We’ve seen the real-world attacks that can come from unpatched vulnerabilities in an out-of-date operating system. There are also valid reasons an organization could choose to hedge its bets and not upgrade. Ultimately, it is a conversation about risk, and more specifically, how much risk is an organization willing to assume in the face of a […]
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