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Support for Windows 8.1 ends January 10, 2023
November 22, 2022 - Did you always resent having to abandon the Windows 7 operating system (OS) for Windows 8? Did you quietly seethe with...
A Chrome fix for an in-the-wild exploit is out—Check your version
October 28, 2022 - Google has announced an update for Chrome that fixes an in-the-wild exploit. Chrome Stable channel has been updated to 107.0.5304.87 for...
Chrome users, you have 3 months to say goodbye to Windows 7 and 8.1
October 27, 2022 - After keeping Chrome running on early Windows versions for two extra years, giving IT administrators time to update, Google has decided...
Update now! October patch Tuesday fixes actively used zero-day…but not the one you expected
October 12, 2022 - Microsoft fixed 84 vulnerabilities in its October 2022 Patch Tuesday updates. Thirteen of them received the classification ‘Critical’. Among them are...
Windows 11 pulls ahead of Windows 10 in anti-phishing stakes
September 26, 2022 - Some new security additions and changes have been announced for users of Windows, but you’ll have to be using Windows 11...
Education hammered by exploits and backdoors in 2021 and 2022
August 9, 2022 - In May of 2021, education underwent a siege of exploit attempts using the vulnerability CVE-2021-21551, which exploits a Dell system driver...
Microsoft clamps down on RDP brute-force attacks in Windows 11
July 26, 2022 - It wasn’t so long ago that we were wondering what improvements Windows 11 would make in the security stakes. Well, we...
Update now—July Patch Tuesday patches include fix for exploited zero-day
July 13, 2022 - It’s time to triage a lot of patching again. Microsoft’s July Patch Tuesday includes an actively exploited local privilege escalation vulnerability...
It’s official, today you can say goodbye to Internet Explorer. Or can you?
June 15, 2022 - Today, the Internet Explorer (IE) 11 desktop application goes out of support and will be retired for certain versions of Windows...
“Multiple adversaries” exploiting Confluence vulnerability, warns Microsoft
June 14, 2022 - Microsoft has warned that “multiple adversaries and nation-state actors” are making use of the recent Atlassian Confluence RCE vulnerability. A fix...