Closer Look At The New Windows 10 Features Tested In Preview Builds The next feature update “Windows 10 May 2021 Update” is going to be a minor service pack style-like release with quality improvements and bug fixes. While the next update is all about improvements, preview builds and reports have Read more…
How To Stop Windows 10 Defender From Uploading Files To Microsoft Like other antivirus programs, Microsoft Defender will upload suspicious files to Microsoft to determine if they are malicious. However, some consider this a privacy risk and would rather have their files stay on their computer than being uploaded to Read more…
Windows 10 Device Manager Update Makes Removing Drivers Easier The Windows 10 Device Manager is getting a helpful upgrade that makes it easier to uninstall a specific driver by seeing what devices are using it. When Windows 10 detects a new hardware component, it will attempt to find a compatible Read more…
Google Chrome Is Getting A New Progressive Web App Feature As more companies and independent developers are switching to Progressive Web Apps as their preferred solution for native apps, Microsoft and Google are slowly adding new PWA features to improve the web apps experience on Windows and other platforms. For Read more…
Office 365 Security Baseline Adds Macro Signing, JScript Protection Microsoft has updated the security baseline for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise (formerly Office 365 Professional Plus) to include protection from JScript code execution attacks and unsigned macros. Security baselines enable security admins to use Microsoft-recommended Group Policy Object (GPO) baselines to reduce Read more…
Python Also Impacted By Critical IP Address Validation Vulnerability The Python standard library ipaddress also suffers from the critical IP address validation vulnerability identical to the flaw that was reported in the “netmask” library earlier this year. The researchers who had discovered the critical flaw in netmask, also discovered the same flaw in this Python module Read more…
The Week in Ransomware – April 30th 2021 – Attacks Escalate Ransomware gangs continue to target organizations large and small, including a brazen attack on the Washington DC police department. This week, we learned of attacks affecting the Metropolitan Police Department, Merseyrail UK rail operator, the Whistler Resort Municipality, and an attack on Brazil’s court Read more…
First Horizon Bank Online Accounts Hacked To Steal Customers’ Funds Bank holding company First Horizon Corporation disclosed the some of its customers had their online banking accounts breached by unknown attackers earlier this month. First Horizon is a regional financial services company with $84 billion in assets that offers banking, Read more…
Babuk Quits Ransomware Encryption, Focuses On Data-Theft Extortion A new message today from the operators of Babuk ransomware clarifies that the gang has decided to close the affiliate program and move to an extortion model that does not rely on encrypting victim computers. The explanation comes after yesterday the group Read more…
Microsoft Is Bringing The AAC Bluetooth Audio Codec To Windows 10 Microsoft has added AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) support for Bluetooth audio devices to the latest Windows 10 build released for Insiders in the Dev Channel. AAC is a lossy audio codec used by Apple devices (e.g., iPhones, iPads) and Read more…
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