Software Updates

These Windows 10 Tools Give You Complete Control Over Privacy With data being the new currency of the digital age, Windows 10 collects various telemetry, such as how you use the system, whether programs are operating correctly, or deliver personalized advertisements based on your activity or installed apps. If you Read more…

Hands-on With Windows 10’s New Start Menu During a Windows Insider webcast, Microsoft teased its vision for a new Windows 10 Start Menu that features partially transparent theme-aware tiles to showcase the new Fluent-based colorful icons. Microsoft said it will bring the new Start Menu to your devices with Windows 10 version 20H2, Read more…

How To Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) In Windows 10 DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) allows DNS resolution to be performed via the HTTPS protocol rather than through the normal plain text DNS lookups. ISPs tend to block your connection to sites by monitoring the DNS traffic. With DoH (DNS-over-HTTPS), you’ll be able to bypass censorship, Read more…

StarHub 5G Speed Tests Round #2: How Does It Hold Up Against Its Own 4G? (Photo by Morning Brew on Unsplash.) After last week’s taste test of StarHub’s 5G trial network, the HWZ team wondered if there’s more to the speeds we were seeing. After all, 5G is slated to offer amazing latency Read more…

Office 365 Phishing Runs Real-Time Check Of Stolen Domain Logins Threat researchers investigating phishing attacks encountered a less common technique in spear-phishing aimed at a senior executive at a top American company. The code behind the phishing page made sure that the threat actor got the right credentials for the Read more…

BLURtooth Vulnerability Lets Attackers Defeat Bluetooth Encryption A vulnerability exists in certain implementations of Bluetooth 4.0 through 5.0 which allows an attacker to overwrite or lower the strength of the pairing key, giving them access to authenticated services. The bug was discovered independently by two teams of academic researchers and Read more…

Microsoft Edge Now Gives You More Control Of Your Downloads Microsoft is porting a feature from Edge Classic that gives users more control over how they can download files in the browser. In Microsoft Edge Classic, when performing downloads, the browser would ask if you would like to download and Read more…

Microsoft Office September Security Updates Fix Critical RCE Bugs Microsoft has released the September 2020 Office security updates with a total of 30 security updates and 5 cumulative updates for 7 different products, fixing 13 vulnerabilities that could enable remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. Redmond also issued the September 2020 Patch Read more…

Samsung Fixes Critical Android Flaws With September Updates Samsung has started rolling out Android’s September security updates to mobile devices to fix critical security vulnerabilities in the operating system and enhance overall features on the devices. This week Android published their September 2020 security updates, which includes numerous security patches for critical Read more…

Windows 10 2004 KB4571756 Breaks Windows Subsystem For Linux 2 The Windows 10 KB4571756 security update released yesterday is reportedly breaking Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) compatibility layer. This issue prevents Windows 10 2004 users from launching the Windows Terminal with WSL2, with the app crashing and throwing “Element not found” and Read more…