Microsoft is introducing a new feature called Windows Sandbox that will allow you to safely run executables in a throw-away virtualized sandbox without fear of your regular Windows install becoming infected. […]
Microsoft has released an out-of-band security update that fixes an actively exploited vulnerability in Internet Explorer. This vulnerability has been assigned ID CVE-2018-8653 and was discovered by Google’s Threat Analysis Group when they saw the...
Microsoft has released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18305 (19H1) to insiders in the Fast ring. This is going to be the last Windows Insider build released in 2018 and it comes with a ton of new features such as the Windows Sandbox, new Windows Defender settings,...
Keybase received two separate reports for security issues in its app for Linux and macOS that led to privilege escalation on the system. For each of them, the developer paid a bounty of $5,000. […]
Microsoft has released an Insider Preview Build that includes the new Windows Sandbox feature. If you’re on the Fast track, you can download and start using it today. What is Sandbox? In short, Windows Sandbox is half app, half virtual machine. It lets you quickly...
Shamoon’s comeback early last week was not marked by one, but two occurrences of the data-wiping malware. The second sighting observed a different sample that could indicate a follow-up to the initial attack. […]
If you are infected with the InsaneCrypt or Everbe 1.0 family of ransomware infections, a decryptor has been created that recover your files for free. […]
Windows 10’s next update codenamed ’19H1′ will reportedly come with Microsoft Flow-powered custom actions for the Action Center, independent dark theme toggle for File Explorer, new Task Manager feature and more. […]
These extortion emails are getting wilder and wilder. First we had the sextortion scams that threatened to reveal victims doing dirty deeds, then bomb threats, which brought the attention of law enforcement worldwide, and now we have threats that a hitman is targeting...
Exploit code has been published for a local file inclusion (LFI) type of vulnerability affecting the Console plugin in Kibana data visualization tool for Elasticsearch; an attacker could use this to upload a malicious script and potentially get remote code execution....
