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Credit to Author: Klint Finley| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:00:00 +0000
After Tuesday, Microsoft will no longer issue security updates for the operating system, leaving users who don’t upgrade vulnerable to malware.
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Credit to Author: Angry Staff Officer| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:00:00 +0000
It took decades, but the galaxy finally has a tactical and operational genius.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 23:09:37 +0000
The fragility of global internet infrastructure has left the entire Red Sea region struggling to connect.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 05:48:00 -0800
Over the past few years we’ve seen a few security holes that have drawn Chicken Little warnings and vast amounts of unthinking press reports. When you turn on a local news program and hear from the hometown weather reporter that you really need to get Windows patched, a bit of skepticism might be in order.
Today’s Patch Tuesday appears to be headed down the same well-worn chute.
Brian Krebs, the security guru with impeccable credentials, fired an opening salvo in his blog post yesterday:
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 04:16:00 -0800
Today Microsoft issues its final free security update for Windows 7, putting an end to that operating system’s decade.
To remember that service – a retirement party but without the cloyingly-sweet cake and cheap gold watch – Computerworld selected seven highlights of Windows 7. While the seven do not pretend to trace Windows 7’s history, they illustrate the influence and impact of the OS.
Here’s to Windows 7. Raise a glass, for cryin’ out loud.
The numbers say it all.
Windows Vista, the 2006 replacement for Windows XP, topped out at 20% of all Windows versions in October 2009. Even though the OS it followed was long in the tooth – XP was nearly twice the age of a typical version when it was supplanted – Vista struggled to put a dent in its forerunner’s share.
Credit to Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 03:00:00 -0800
Listen, I get it. Windows 7 has worked really well. After the Vista fiasco, you were so happy to get a decent version of Windows. You dodged the Windows 8.x sinkhole, and, boy, were you glad! Then, you thought about Windows 10, but 7 just did the job so you stuck with it, and then you felt vindicated because of Windows 10’s dodgy upgrades and patches. Now, today, Jan. 14, 2020, Windows 7 has reached its end of life, and either you’ve upgraded to Windows 10 or you’re working on another Windows 7 alternative like Chrome OS, macOS or Linux, right?
Credit to Author: David Nield| Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 12:00:00 +0000
If you have a Facebook account—and even if you don’t—the company is going to collect data about you. But you can at least control how it gets used.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 14:00:00 +0000
Snooping Ring employees, Skype contractors, and more of the week’s top security news.
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