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It seems the year has just rolled over into 2025, and with it comes the first major cybersecurity alert for Microsoft Office users, specifically those working with Visio. Digging beneath the cryptic name “CVE-2025-21345,” we uncover some serious concerns regarding a newly identified remote code...

On October 16, 2024, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with the FBI, NSA, and several international partners, released a critical advisory warning organizations about the cyber threat posed by Iranian cyber actors. Dubbed "Iranian Cyber Actors Brute Force and...

In a recent announcement, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued a stark warning to users of Windows 10 and Windows 11 regarding serious security vulnerabilities. These weaknesses have the potential to enable attackers to gain elevated privileges on affected systems...

people at windowsforum, regards to all. i hope you are all doing good. i need help to secure a physical server i rent in europe and have no idea how i could get started about this. i live in a region where power and internet service outages can be all too frequent. over time these utility...

If you're using Avast and are on a version below 19.8 you probably should update. Avast Vulnerability Potentially Allows DLL Hijacking

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I woke up this morning, and booted up my PC, then I got an alert from Virus & Threat Protection, saying that I have Trojan:Win32/Detplock on my Pc. I deleted it, but it kept reappearing, regardless of how many times I got rid of it. After some research, I decided to see if there was a system...

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Original release date: December 03, 2015 Systems Affected Microsoft Windows Overview Dorkbot is a botnet used to steal online payment, participate in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and deliver other types of malware to victims’ computers. According to Microsoft, the family of...

Hi, suddenly the attached popup pops every time I click on the mouse in IE on any site. I formatted C:\ recently & installed win8 pro with my DVD & upgraded to w8.1pro online. Can you help please ............thanx ........nick PS. sorry for 2 fotos, cannot delete one. Home build, Asus P5K...

Hi This just popped up on my screen, I made a screen shot and then closed the window. Now I'm running Malwarebytes. What wasn't captured by the Snipping Tool was the giant red flashing message that said, "Critical Crash!" in the header of the window. Link Removed Pretty sure this is some...

Original release date: June 02, 2014 Systems Affected Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, and 8 Microsoft Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, and Server 2012 Overview GameOver Zeus (GOZ), a peer-to-peer (P2P) variant of the Zeus family of bank credential-stealing malware...

I am using W7, home premium on 1 year old HP desktop computer. Recently, I was having trouble accessing videos from you tube, email and other sites. I had been using adobe flash player 9 and I was told to upgrade adobe flash and to get version 11. I installed version 11 but it would not play...

Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the worst terrorist attacks on American soil, is dead, officials said -- almost 10 years after the attacks that killed about 3,000 people. The founder and leader of al Qaeda was killed by U.S. forces Monday in a mansion in Abbottabad, north of the Pakistani...

recently a friend of mine sent me a link to a youtube page, and an avast antivirus alert popped up as the page loaded saying it blocked some sort of malicious code, then i tried going to a few different other legitimate sites, like google, yahoo, microsoft.... every site set off avast, so i ran...

Link Removed - Invalid URL Authors of rogue antivirus software hesitate little when it comes down to copying the design and branding of official security solutions in an attempt to pass their fake antivirus code as genuine offerings. It is, of course, just one of the aspects of the social...