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Microsoft has launched a legal attack on Fancy Bear, the Russian hacker group famous for meddling in the US elections last year. The company has sued the collective in federal court in Washington for concerns as diverse as comput...
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Long time foe of Microsoft’s Windows Defender anti-virus, Kaspersky, has been removed from the US governments approved vendors list after concerns were raised that the software provided by the vendor could allow the Kremlin ...
by Surur
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In the day and age of WannaCry and Petya taking down major companies and government utilities, one would have thought no-one needed to be convinced about the importance of timely patching of Windows PCs, from Windows XP all the wa...
by Surur
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Google is not the only company still releasing software which demands the old SMB v1 file sharing protocol to be available on a Windows network. In fact, a wide variety of applications still demands this legacy protocol, which Mic...
by Surur
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The latest WikiLeaks revelation includes an interesting one revealing one of the CIA’s tricks of the trade. According to the WikiLeaks since 2013 the CIA had a tool called ELSA which would check the identity of the WIFI netw...
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On March, Google’s Project Zero engineers reported a security flaw on the Windows kernel that affects Windows 7 to Windows 10 (32-bit). The flaw in Windows’ nt!NtNotifyChangeDirectoryFile system essentially allowed una...
by Surur
1 month
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A massive trove in 32 terabytes of internal Microsoft source code, builds and tools have leaked onto the internet, downloadable by all and sundry, The Register reports the files, Microsoft’s Shared Source Kit, appears to ha...
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Windows 10 S, Microsoft’s latest variant of Windows is supposed to be a more secure version of Windows 10. Windows 10 S prevents the installation of apps that aren’t downloaded from the Windows Store, regardless of whe...
by Surur
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In a blog post, and without ever naming the Russian antivirus company, Microsoft has posted a defence of their Windows Defender practices which has been a source of anti-trust complaint by Kaspersky at various European courts. Eug...
by Surur
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The recent devastating WannaCrypt attacks were so successful not because of spreading via gullible email users, but because it used a vulnerability in SMBv1, which dates to the 1990s, to spread laterally in a Windows network to ot...
by Surur
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Microsoft received a lot of criticism after releasing a patch for Windows XP for the EternalBlue exploit well after releasing it for Windows 7, 8 and Windows 10 and well after the WannaCry attack started. It seems Microsoft has l...
by Surur
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Powerpoint, the world’s most popular presentation software has been accused of killing critical thinking, causing untold economic damage by wasting productive time and even killing whole businesses. Now in its latest trick, ...