by Surur
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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...
by Pradeep
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Recently, hackers turned-off power to more than 230,000 Ukrainian residents by exploiting a serial-to-Ethernet gateway vulnerability. The utilities industry is under continuous threat as hackers everywhere target them to create hu...
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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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When WannaCrypt rolled out in April it was already very clear how to protect yourself – fully-patched PCs were not vulnerable at all, as Microsoft had just released a software update designed to specifically address the vuln...
by Surur
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Microsoft has caught a lot of flak for their data collection practices in Windows 10 and when Windows 10 users upgraded to the Creators Update last Fall they were confronted with a new settings screen where they needed to make cho...
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...
by Surur
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Most of our readers will be familiar with the Windows tech support scam, and some of our readers may even have been at the receiving end of a phone call claiming to be from Microsoft telling us our computers are infected with a vi...
by Surur
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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...
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 Pradeep
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Microsoft Ventures has invested in Trusona, a leader in simply secure identity authentication. Microsoft took part in Trusona’s $10 million Series B funding round led by investor Kleiner Perkins. Trusona offers a range of so...