Google engineers are once again helping tech giant Microsoft resolve some critical security flaws in its products, this time affecting both Windows 7 and Windows 8. Tavis Ormandy, who works as Information Security Engineer at Google, has decided to fully disclose a flaw affecting Microsoft’s two newe... [read more >>] Both Hotmail and Outlook.com email services are vulnerable to session fixation attacks that could allow cybercriminals to get full control of an account due to what seems to be an issue affecting the management of cookies and sessions.
Security guru Rishi Narang wrote on his blog that Microsoft’s ema... [read more >>] Microsoft is the third giant that falls victim to a new type of cyberattack based on a Java vulnerability, after Facebook and Apple have both confirmed similar issues over the last couple of weeks.
The Redmond-based technology titan has confirmed in a blog post that a small number of computers got infected... [read more >>] AV-Test released a few hours ago the results of a new anti-virus test performed in December, revealing that Microsoft’s Security Essentials and two other security products had failed to receive their certification. According to these results, Security Essentials detected only 72 percent of 0-day malw... [read more >>] Fast Startup is one of the new features integrated into Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system that basically allows Windows to boost faster on a dual-boot configuration. The problem is that the tool puts locally stored data at risk when the user loads the second operating system, in most cases a Lin... [read more >>] Redmond-based technology company Microsoft said in a statement a few hours ago that the recently discovered Internet Explorer flaw which allows hackers to track mouse movement isn’t affecting users and no exploits have been recorded so far. Spider.io, the security company that has actually discovered... [read more >>] Windows 8 was designed to be a much more secure operating system, so it bundles several new tools and improved features to make sure that it’s harder to break into than any other Windows version.
Sadly, it appears that Microsoft has forgotten to fix an important password reset hack that also works on... [read more >>] Windows has always been regarded as one of the most attacked operating systems in the world, but the trend is slowly changing, security company Sophos revealed in its Security Threat Report 2013.
Basically, the number of attacks aimed at Mac and Android platforms has grown a lot lately, Sophos explained, s... [read more >>] Microsoft’s Security Essentials is the only free anti-virus software that failed to receive certification after a new round of anti-virus tests conducted by AV-Test on Windows 7 during September and October.
According to results provided by AV-Test on its official website, all the other anti-virus pr... [read more >>] Windows 8 is a huge opportunity not only for Microsoft, as the company is trying to “reinvent” the Windows OS, but also for cybercriminals who struggle to make their malicious attempts a bit more effective. Security company Trend Micro reports that several fake Windows 8 key generators and acti... [read more >>] |
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