Anyone who views the web via Chrome must make sure their software is fully up to date or risk being attacked by cyber thieves. That's the very latest warning from Google with the technology giant releasing an urgent patch that fixes a critical flaw in its hugely popular browser...
If Intel wasn't already in enough trouble with AMD's constant onslaught of products with Ryzen and now Ryzen ThreadRipper, the company is now going to have a huge storm surrounding it over a newly-discovered flaw in Intel's Skylake and Kaby Lake architectures with Hyper-Threading.
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One of the primary reasons people use a Virtual Private Network (VPN) is to hide or disguise their true IP address while they're online. For instance, some sports fans can watch a game that's blacked out in their area by tricking a website into thinking the user/viewer, based on their IP...
I just found a huge Windows 10 flaw and it has impact on File History, too.
All us previous Windows users that login with a Microsoft Account have all noticed how Windows 10 names our user accounts after our Microsoft Account.
I just noticed this flaw in File History.
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Storage. It's not a sexy topic. But everyone uses it in some way or another. You have iPhones, you have computers. Everyone knows how important a person's data is. But it doesn't just "disappear."
Or does it?
New research suggests that newer solid-state hard drives, which are faster and offer...
The United States Department of Homeland Security today urged Java users to disable Java in a vulnerability discovered by CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team). The details can be found here:
Vulnerability Note VU#625617 - Java 7 fails to restrict access to privileged code
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Patch Tuesday has arrived. As expected, Microsoft released a relatively small number of patches for July, but that is no reason for IT admins to let their guard down--especially when one of the patches is a Critical update for Windows 7 and Windows Vista. read more
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Patch Tuesday has arrived. As expected, Microsoft released a relatively small number of patches for July, but that is no reason for IT admins to let their guard down -- especially when one of the patches is a critical update for Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
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Non-profit outfit Mozilla has got Firefox 5 ready ahead of schedule and has posted up the code ready for the official release on June 21.
They are addressing a flaw with the WebGL implementation that Microsoft says is insecure
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I think I found a flaw in the way Bitlocker handles manually entering your key that would make it very vulnerable to a brute force attack. You can read about it Link Removed due to 404 Error on my site.
It seems like I am the only one who thinks this a big deal. Is there something I am...
Move is revenge for way Microsoft treated colleague A group of security researchers last week published information about a flaw in Windows Vista and Server 2008, in revenge for the way Microsoft treated a colleague.
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It would seem that this security hole would be an extremely serious flaw for people such as independent researchers who have co-workers who could have access to a computer during time periods that the rightful user was off duty. Bosses could easily "spy" on their employees, which would be a...
MS has issued a security update for Windows 7 so if by chance you have auto updates turned off this update is important as it corrects a security flaw in 7.
Microsoft has Link Removed due to 404 Error that a new vulnerability has been detected in Internet Explorer and could be quite serious. At the moment it is recommended that users switch to another browser until Microsoft issues an emergency patch to close the vulnerability.
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