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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2018 16:08:00 -0800
Yesterday, Microsoft released ADV180028, Guidance for configuring BitLocker to enforce software encryption, in response to a clever crack published on Monday by Carlo Meijer and Bernard van Gastel at Radboud University in the Netherlands (PDF).
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 06:45:00 -0700
Back on Oct. 18, a “C Week” Thursday, Microsoft released hefty rounds of bug fixes for Win10 1607, 1703 and 1709. At the time, I wondered out loud why the latest (unyanked) version of Win10, version 1803, didn’t get a similar dose. Now, on a “D Week” Wednesday, it looks like we’ve seen the deluge.
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 10:30:00 -0700
This month’s bad patches made headlines. Lots of headlines. For good reason.
You have my sympathy if you clicked “Check for updates” and got all of the files in your Documents and Photos folders deleted. Even if you didn’t become a “seeker” (didn’t manually check for updates) your month may have been filled with blue screens, odd chicken-and-egg errors, and destroyed audio drivers — and Edge and your UWP (“Metro” Store) apps might have been kicked off the internet.
You didn’t need to lift a finger.
Hard to believe that Windows 10 version rollouts could get any worse, but this month hit the bottom of a nearly bottomless barrel. Some folks who clicked “Check for updates” wound up with a brand spanking new copy of Win10 version 1809 — and all of the files in their Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos and other folders disappeared. I have a series of articles on that topic, arranged chronologically:
Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 09:00:56 +0000
In this edition of the Kaspersky Lab podcast, we discuss Facebook’s Portal, chain letters on Facebook, Google+ being killed, and more.
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Credit to Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols| Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 03:00:00 -0700
To help make life better for you, my loyal readers, I suffer by running Windows 7 and 10 on two harmless — never hurt anyone in their lives — PCs. Well, I did. But, in the last week I ran into not one, but two, showstopper update bugs.
First, on Windows 10, I was one of those “lucky” people who had files vaporize when I “updated” to Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809). Because I only use Windows for trivial tasks, I didn’t lose anything valuable when the patch decided to erase everything in the My Documents folder.
Somehow, I think most Windows users use Windows for more important work than I do. I hope you have current backups. At least Computerworld’s Woody Leonhard has some good news: You can get those deleted files back.
Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2018 16:44:20 +0000
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| A roundup of the security news from September 24–30 including phishing, Apple woes, a vulnerability in the wild, e-commerce attacks, phone spam, and a massive Facebook breach. Categories: Tags: CVECVE-2018-8373facebookGooglriPhoneXSLojaxMagecartmicrosoftMojavemutagen astronomyosxphishingport of san diegoquasar ratsafari extensionssms phishingtelegramTV licensingunwanted calls |
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Chris Taylor| Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 13:00:44 +0000
We all know that email remains by far the number one threat vector facing organizations today. Trend Micro blocked more than 20.4 billion threat in the first half of 2018 alone, nearly 83% of which were email borne. But there’s more: corporate email accounts have also become a key target for attackers in their own…
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 08:40:00 -0700
As we near the end of patching’s “C Week” (which is to say, the week that contains the third Tuesday of the month), there are no show-stopping bugs in the Windows and Office patches and just a few gotchas. As long as you avoid Microsoft’s patches for Intel’s Meltdown/Spectre bugs, you should be in good shape.
On Sept. 17, Microsoft released two very-out-of-band cumulative updates for Windows 10: