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Windows 11 KB5014019 Update Fixes App Crashes, Slow Copying Microsoft has released optional cumulative update previews for Windows 11, Windows 10 version 1809, and Windows Server 2022, with fixes for Direct3D issues impacting client and server systems. The updates are part of Microsoft’s scheduled April 2022 monthly “C” updates, allowing Read more…

Microsoft: Credit Card Stealers are Getting much Stealthier Microsoft’s security researchers have observed a worrying trend in credit card skimming, where threat actors employ more advanced techniques to hide their malicious info-stealing code. Skimming gangs obfuscate their code snippets, inject them into image files, and masquerade them as popular web Read more…

Microsoft Tests New Windows 11 Desktop Search that Only Works with Edge Microsoft is testing a new feature in the latest Windows 11 preview build that displays an Internet search box directly on the desktop. The problem is that it does not honor your default browser and only uses Bing Read more…

Microsoft Disables Telemetry in Windows 11 Subsystem for Android by Default Microsoft has updated the Windows Subsystem for Android in Windows 11 to make telemetry collection optional and announced an upgrade to Android 12.1. As the Windows Insider Program Team revealed in today’s announcement, diagnostic data collection is now disabled Read more…

Microsoft Emergency Updates Fix Windows AD Authentication Issues Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band (OOB) updates to address Active Directory (AD) authentication issues after installing Windows Updates issued during the May 2022 Patch Tuesday on domain controllers. The company has been working on a fix for this known issue causing authentication failures for some Windows services since May Read more…

Microsoft Detects Massive Surge in Linux XorDDoS Malware Activity A stealthy and modular malware used to hack into Linux devices and build a DDoS botnet has seen a massive 254% increase in activity during the last six months, as Microsoft revealed today. This malware (active since at least 2014) is known Read more…

Microsoft Teams, Windows 11 Hacked on First Day of Pwn2Own During the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2022, contestants won $800,000 after successfully exploiting 16 zero-day bugs to hack multiple products, including Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system and the Teams communication platform. The first to fall was Microsoft Teams in the enterprise communications category Read more…

Microsoft Releases First ISO Image for New Windows 11 Dev Builds Microsoft has released the first ISO image for the new Windows 11 Preview builds in the Dev channel, allowing Windows Insiders to perform clean installs of the operating system. Last week, Microsoft again started offering different Windows 11 builds in the Read more…

Microsoft Warns of Brute-force Attacks Targeting MSSQL Servers Microsoft warned of brute-forcing attacks targeting Internet-exposed and poorly secured Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) database servers using weak passwords. While this isn’t necessarily the first time MSSQL servers have been targeted in such attacks, Redmond says that the threat actors behind this recently Read more…

Microsoft: Windows Server 20H2 Reaches End of Service in August Microsoft has reminded customers today that Windows Server, version 20H2, will be reaching the end of service (EOS) on August 9, 2022. In a support document published today, Microsoft says that Windows Server 20H2 will reach the mainstream support end date for Read more…