Some News
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Satya Nadella had us all fooled but good with his kinder, gentler, people-empowering Microsoft act. But now we can see the company's reverted to type by threatening to kill venerable graphics app Paint after the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.
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WikiLeaks founder describes end of rape allegations inquiry as ‘important victory’, but would still face arrest in London if he leaves embassy
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A driver developed by a third party was found depositing every keystroke into an unencrypted file on the computer's hard drive.
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A ransomware attack leveraging alleged NSA hacking tools that began hitting the U.K. National Health System earlier today, has spread globally, impacting FedEx and Spanish telecom Telefonica, and locking up tens of thousands of computers in 74 countries.
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Popular file-hosting service Uploaded.net terminated the accounts of many users this week, citing frequent copyright infringements. The account holders in question, many of which used the site to generate revenue, are no longer able to share their files and are actively looking for alternatives.
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Nearly 120,000 units of digital currency bitcoin worth about US$72 million was stolen from the exchange platform Bitfinex in Hong Kong, rattling the global bitcoin community in the second-biggest security breach ever of such an exchange.
Bitfinex is the world's largest dollar-based exchange for bitcoin, and is known in the digital currency community for having deep liquidity in the U.S. dollar/bitcoin currency pair.
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AVG’s Virus Lab has released six free decryption tools for recent ransomware strains so users can start taking back what’s theirs without forking over any cash to the bad guys. Ransomware is a multi-million-pound crime operation that strikes everyone from hospitals to police forces to even your grandparents.
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With the official launch of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update less than a month away, recent preview builds have been downright boring, with no new features to write about. But hold on a minute. What's this Windows Upgrade to Subscription tool?
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In the aftermath of Brexit, cybercriminals have launched spam email campaigns capitalising on the prevalent fears and insecurities of UK citizens. Security researchers have spotted malware-laced emails, promising to protect users against the financial and security fallout predicted post Brexit. Cybersecurity firm Digital Shadows cautioned that emails citing currency fluctuations, political turmoil and Footsie (FTSE) changes have popped up, which are designed to lure unsuspecting victims and infect their systems with malicious codes, the Daily Mail reported.
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A newly released exploit can disable the write protection of critical firmware areas in Lenovo ThinkPads and possibly laptops from other vendors as well. Many new Windows security features, like Secure Boot, Virtual Secure Mode and Credential Guard, depend on the low-level firmware being locked down.
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For months, we’ve cataloged continued user resistance to Microsoft’s Windows 10 upgrade policies, the company’s increasing attempts to shove users to adopt the OS, and its occasional backtrack when its own policies went too far. It seems that at least one customer took the fight to court and won a small judgment against the company for how it deployed its latest operating system.