As millions of people across Europe choose to work remotely rather than head into the office in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, a widely-used communication and collaboration tool has gone down.
How one guy’s exercise routine made him a burglary suspect, how multi-factor authentication can cause headaches as well as stop hacks, and how Virgin Media got itself in a pickle over its sloppy data security. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Maria Varmazis.
It’s one of the largest Patch Tuesday updates ever issued by Microsoft, and includes fixes for 12 security vulnerabilities that have been given the highest severity rating of “critical.” The clock is ticking. IT teams should waste no time in readying themselves for a roll-out across the Windows computers for which they’re responsible.
Microsoft is inviting gamers, security researchers, and technologists to pit their wits against the Xbox network in the search for security vulnerabilities. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
We definitely definitely absolutely won’t ever ever be releasing any more updates for Windows 7, said Microsoft earlier this month. Now there’s an update on its way to fix a cosmetic bug in how Windows 7 displays users’ desktop wallpaper…
Microsoft’s workaround for an unpatched vulnerability that is being exploited in targeted attacks by hackers appears to be causing printer errors.
Red faces at Microsoft after a security researcher discovered an internal customer support database had been left exposed for anyone on the internet to access – no password required.
Microsoft has warned Windows users that there is an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that is being exploited in targeted attacks.
Hundreds of millions of Windows 10 users are having an important patch rolled out to their computers today after Microsoft was warned by the NSA of a serious security hole in the operating system.
At 11am PST (7pm UK), Microsoft will release its last ever Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 7. After today, Microsoft says it won’t release any more security patches for the ageing operating system.
Currently BlueKeep attacks have been causing computers to crash, and drawing attention to themselves. But that may be about to change… Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
The BlueKeep vulnerability, discovered by the UK’s NCSC, is being exploited at scale in an attempt to install a cryptocurrency miner on unpatched Windows PCs.
Microsoft’s security team warns that the remote code execution vulnerabilities could be abused by malware to spread from computer to computer without requiring any user interaction. Patch your systems now! Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Two years after the WannaCry ransomware outbreak shone a light on the computer security of the the UK’s National Health Service, and five years after Microsoft said it would no longer release patches for Windows XP, the NHS still has 2,300 PCs running the outdated operating system. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
US Cyber Command has issued an alert about an unnamed foreign country’s attempt to spread malware through the exploitation of a vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook, as concerns are raised of a rise in an Iranian-backed hacking group’s activities. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
With 180 million active users it’s no wonder that Microsoft Office 365 has caught the attention of online criminals. Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Business Insights blog.