With school closed due to the Coronavirus pandemic, some kids are creating malware to keep themselves occupied. Such is the case with a variety of new MBRLocker variants being released, including one with a Coronavirus theme. […] …
Active Directory (AD) admins can mitigate the recently disclosed and actively exploited remote code execution (RCE) zero-day found in the Windows Adobe Type Manager Library in large AD environments using group policies. […] …
The Zoom Windows client is vulnerable to UNC path injection in the client’s chat feature that could allow attackers to steal the Windows credentials of users who click on the link. […] …
Microsoft has released an out-of-band Windows 10 update to fix a bug that was causing internet connectivity issues on devices with proxies, including virtual private networks (VPNs). […] …
Windows 10 contains programs, such as Notepad and Task Manager, that we have come to love and use often as part of our daily use of a Windows computer. Sometimes, though, you may find that you want to replace these programs with more feature-rich third-party programs, but still be able to launch them like you have gotten used to. […] …
Microsoft is releasing a new app for Windows 10 called the “Windows News Bar” that will display a docked bar containing news stories from Microsoft News and acts as a stock picker for monitored stocks. […] …
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned nine VoIP service providers against assisting and facilitating illegal robocalls designed to capitalize on public anxiety surrounding the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic. […] …
Google says that it delivered almost 40,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or malware hacking attempts to its users during 2019, with a 25% drop when compared to the previous year. […] …
The Chinese state-sponsored group APT41 has been at the helm of a range of attacks that used recent exploits to target security flaws in Citrix, Cisco, and Zoho appliances and devices of entities from a multitude of industry sectors spanning the globe. […] …
Three more ransomware families have created sites that are being used to leak the stolen data of non-paying victims and further illustrates why all ransomware attacks must be considered data breaches. […] …
A really simple fix for the Windows Defender alert that states items were skipped during a scan has been discovered and it involves just enabling network scanning. […] …
For the past couple of weeks, Windows 10 users have been reporting that Windows Defender scans are skipping files due to a configured exclusion or network scanning setting. […] …
Microsoft is pausing the releases of new major versions of the Edge browser, including version 81, to remain consistent with the Google Chrome releases, which were paused earlier this week. […] …
Finastra, a leading financial technology provider from the UK, announced that it had to take several servers offline following a ransomware attack detected earlier today. […] …
Canadian ISP Rogers Communications has begun to notify customers of a data breach that exposed their personal information due to an unsecured database. […] …
Ransomware gets deployed three days after an organization’s network gets infiltrated in the vast majority of attacks, with post-compromise deployment taking as long as 299 days in some of the dozens of attacks researchers at cybersecurity firm FireEye examined between 2017 and 2019. […] …
