This Week in Security: Too Little Too Late, and Other Stories

Microsoft has just announced a way to disable JScript in Internet Explorer. This would have been very useful a few years ago, to proactively prevent problems found in the now-ancient JScript engine, which ran their own slightly different version of standard JavaScript. Even though IE is no longer under active …read more

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Magento, Visual Studio Code users: You need to patch!

Microsoft and Adobe released out-of-band security updates for Visual Studio Code, the Windows Codecs Library, and Magento. All the updates fix vulnerabilities that could be exploited for remote code execution, but the good news is that none of them are… Continue reading Magento, Visual Studio Code users: You need to patch!

Microsoft Fixes RCE Flaws in Out-of-Band Windows Update

The two important-severity flaws in Microsoft Windows Codecs Library and Visual Studio Code could enable remote code execution. Continue reading Microsoft Fixes RCE Flaws in Out-of-Band Windows Update

Everything You Need to Know About Azure – March 2020 Edition


At times like this, chatting about cool new features in Azure is a lot less important than what’s surrounding us all, and impacting some of us either directly or indirectly, now. But you know what? A distraction from the fear, worry, or self-imposed incarceration can be a good thing. So let’s crack on with it, and let’s talk about the cool new IaaS features that Azure launched during the last month.

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Facebook Adopts Visual Studio Code Internally Following Microsoft Partnership

Facebook makes the switch to Visual Studio Code as the IDE of choice at the company, announces new partnership with Microsoft to improve VSCode’s functionality.
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