Saturday, November 22nd, 2014
Some people spend hours — maybe even days — trying to clean an infected Windows system and ensuring it’s actually clean and safe afterward. It’s usually not a good idea to do this — just reinstall Windows and start over.
This may seem like a daunting task, especially if you don’t ...
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Friday, November 21st, 2014
Unless we are a human supercomputer, remembering password is not an easy task and that too, if you have a different password for every different site. But luckily to make the whole process easy, there is a growing market for password managers which provides an extra layer of protection. Wait! ...
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2014
Remember Heartbleed? You know, the exploit in SSL that was so bad it got its own brand? Microsoft may have an issue of similar scale on its hands with a critical patch issued via Windows Update today.
The patch in question is MS14-066, or otherwise known as the cryptically named “Vulnerability in Schannel ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
Dell SecureWorks has updated its figures on the number of PCs infected by the awful CryptoWall ransom malware and the news isn’t good – the number of systems has spiked suddenly to 830,000.
The firm’s last statistic in late August was 625,000, itself a large number of infected systems, which means ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
Microsoft has disclosed that a new zero-day vulnerability is present in Windows, and is exploited via Microsoft Office files. According to Microsoft Security Advistory 3010060, the vulnerability is present in all supported versions of Windows except Windows Server 2003.
The vulnerability (designated as CVE-2014-6352) is triggered by an attacker sending a specially ...
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