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Thanks, Microsoft, but I’m still saying no to Windows 10

Credit to Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols| Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2017 05:26:00 -0800

I’ve been hearing a lot from friends recently about how Windows 10 is the best Windows ever and people would be stupid not to switch. These being friends, I don’t want to be rude, but — cough, ahem — I don’t buy it.

Is security your No. 1 concern? Well, Windows 10 is no more secure than Windows 7 — which is to say it is a profoundly insecure operating system. There have been a lot of serious Windows security patches in the last year, and Windows 10 had all the same problems as Windows 7.

True, Windows didn’t have anything as bad as macOS’s unbelievably stupid “Let anyone log in as the administrator” security hole, but just because Microsoft didn’t botch things as badly as Apple did doesn’t get it off the hook. I mean, what do you call it when Microsoft fixes security holes in Windows 10 that it doesn’t patch in Windows 7? I call it really, really stupid.

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SSD Advisory – Coredy CX-E120 Repeater Multiple Vulnerabilities

Credit to Author: SSD / Maor Schwartz| Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 09:37:02 +0000

Vulnerabilities Summary The following advisory describes two (2) vulnerabilities found in Coredy CX-E120 Repeater. The Coredy CX-E120 WiFi Range Extender is “a network device with multifunction, which can be using for increasing the distance of a WiFi network by boosting the existing WiFi signal and enhancing the overall signal quality over long distances. An extender … Continue reading SSD Advisory – Coredy CX-E120 Repeater Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Hacked Password Service Leakbase Goes Dark

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 05:39:53 +0000

Leakbase, a Web site that indexed and sold access to billions of usernames and passwords stolen in some of the world largest data breaches, has closed up shop. A source close to the matter says the service was taken down in a law enforcement sting that may be tied to the Dutch police raid of the Hansa dark web market earlier this year.

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When the threats get weird, the security solutions get weirder

Credit to Author: Mike Elgan| Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2017 02:00:00 -0800

The world of security is getting super weird. And the solutions may be even weirder than the threats.

I told you last week that some of the biggest companies in technology have been caught deliberately introducing potential vulnerabilities into mobile operating systems and making no effort to inform users.

One of those was introduced into Android by Google. In that case, Android had been caught transmitting location data that didn’t require the GPS system in a phone, or even an installed SIM card. Google claimed that it never stored or used the data, and it later ended the practice.

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Carding Kingpin Sentenced Again. Yahoo Hacker Pleads Guilty

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2017 01:15:15 +0000

Roman Seleznev, a Russian man who is already serving a record 27-year sentence in the United States for cybercrime charges, was handed a 14-year sentence this week by a federal judge in Atlanta for his role in a credit card and identity theft conspiracy that prosecutors say netted more than $50 million. Separately, a Canadian national has pleaded guilty to charges of helping to steal more than a billion user account credentials from Yahoo.

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Get November Windows and Office updates installed — carefully

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 04:23:00 -0800

The list of complaints about this month’s patches goes on forever. I covered the high points a couple of days ago. We’ve seen people who are running Win10 Creators Update and who specifically said they didn’t want to upgrade to Fall Creators Update get pushed into an upgrade anyway. Those using Epson dot matrix or POS printers lost them for a couple of weeks. Add to that a heaping handful of hooey and there were enough problems to keep most Windows customers shaking their heads. Or quaking in their boots.

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