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Credit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:43:26 +0000
At 12:46 a.m. local time on February 3, a Windows 7 Pro customer in North Carolina became the first would-be victim of a new malware attack campaign for Trojan:Win32/Emotet. In the next 30 minutes, the campaign tried to attack over a thousand potential victims, all of whom were instantly and automatically protected by Windows Defender
Read MoreCredit to Author: Yaroslava Ryabova| Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 14:00:48 +0000
Kaspersky Free Antivirus provides reliable and, yes, free protection for Windows machines
Read MoreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 19:40:09 +0000
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 23:12:32 +0000
It’s Nov. 14 — the second Tuesday of the month (a.k.a. “Patch Tuesday) — and Adobe and Microsoft have issued gobs of security updates for their software. Microsoft’s 11 patch bundles fix more than four-dozen security holes in various Windows versions and Office products — including at least four serious flaws that were publicly disclosed prior to today. Meanwhile, Adobe’s got security updates available for a slew of titles, including Flash Player, Photoshop, Reader and Shockwave.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 08:08:00 -0700
I’m seeing many reports, in various locations, about this month’s Windows security patches breaking custom programs that import and export Excel XLS files. Programs that have worked for years are suddenly, mysteriously, turning belly-up. The most common symptom is an error message that says “Unexpected error from external database driver” followed by a number.
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Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:44:00 -0700
Microsoft today revealed that it quietly patched Windows last week against vulnerabilities in the Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) protocol used to secure wireless networks.
Details of the security update were only published Monday to Microsoft’s Security Update Guide, the catalog-like portal that earlier this year replaced the decades-old practice of delivering explanatory bulletins.
All supported versions of Windows received the update, according to the catalog listing, including Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2016.
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Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 12:20:00 -0700
Microsoft today issued an emergency Windows security update to patch vulnerabilities in the Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) protocol used to secure wireless networks.
Details of the security update were published to Microsoft’s Security Update Guide, the catalog-like portal that earlier this year replaced the decades-old practice of delivering explanatory bulletins.
All supported versions of Windows will receive the update, according to the catalog listing, including Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2016.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:18:40 +0000
Microsoft on Tuesday released software updates to fix at least 62 security vulnerabilities in Windows, Office and other software. Two of those flaws were detailed publicly before yesterday’s patches were released, and one of them is already being exploited in active attacks, so attackers already have a head start.
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