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Credit to Author: Greg Lambert| Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 10:40:00 -0700

This week’s Patch Tuesday release was huge, diverse, risky, and urgent, with late update arrivals for Microsoft browsers (CVE-2022-1364) and two zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Windows (CVE-2022-26809 and CVE-2022-24500). Fortunately, Microsoft has not released any patches for Microsoft Exchange, but this month we do have to deal with more Adobe (PDF) printing related vulnerabilities and associated testing efforts. We have added the Windows and Adobe updates to our “Patch Now” schedule, and will be watching closely to see what happens with any further Microsoft Office updates.

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Kaspersky Security

128 vulnerabilities in Microsoft products | Kaspersky official blog

April 13, 2022 admin 0days, Business, Edge, enterprise, microsoft, SMB, Threats, Updates, vulnerabilities, windows

Credit to Author: Editorial Team| Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 18:06:10 +0000

Time to update! Microsoft fixed 128 vulnerabilities in a list of products, including Windows and its components. Ten critical, one already exploited.

MalwareBytes Security

How to password protect a folder

April 12, 2022 admin folder, How-tos, Mac, Password, windows

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 10:57:20 +0000

This article explains how to password protect a folder on Windows and macOS systems. What are your free options?

The post How to password protect a folder appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

MalwareBytes Security

De-Googling Carey Parker’s (and your) life: Lock and Code S03E06

March 14, 2022 admin Amazon, Amazon Web Services, Android, apple, big tech, Chromebook, Data Privacy, de-google, de-googling, Facebook, google, Google Chrome, instagram, iPhone, kashmir hill, LinkedIn, lock and code, microsoft, podcast, privacy focused, privacy forward, teams, WhatsApp, windows

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 20:41:07 +0000

This week on Lock and Code, we talk about taking the right steps to removing Google and its many services from your life.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Do you know where your software comes from?

March 14, 2022 admin Security, small and medium business, software development, windows

Credit to Author: Susan Bradley| Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 08:56:00 -0700

Where does your software come from?

That’s one of the questions online users at AskWoody.com have asked in recent weeks. Obviously, this comes up as the world sees what’s going on in Ukraine. For many years, one security software vendor in particular was tagged as possibly having Russian ties — and as far back as 2017, the US Government banned the use of Kaspersky antivirus over fears the security software could spy on defense contractors for Russia.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Microsoft delivers a solid, low-impact Patch Tuesday

March 12, 2022 admin microsoft, Security, small and medium business, windows

Credit to Author: Greg Lambert| Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2022 05:10:00 -0800

March brings us a solid set of updates from Microsoft for Windows, Microsoft Office, Exchange, and Edge (Chromium), but no critical issues requiring a “Patch Now” release schedule (though Microsoft Exchange will require some technical effort this month). We have published some testing guidelines, with a focus on printing, remote desktop over VPN connections, and server-based networking changes. We also recommend testing your Windows installer packages with a specific focus on roll-back and uninstall functionality.

You can find more information about the risk of deploying these Patch Tuesday updates with this useful infographic. And, if you are looking for more information on .NET updates, there is a great post from Microsoft that highlights this month’s changes.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Change my password? AGAIN?

March 7, 2022 admin Security, small and medium business, windows

Credit to Author: Susan Bradley| Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2022 10:02:00 -0800

Every year at this time, I have to fill out my firm’s cyber insurance application — and every year they ask whether we encourage strong passwords and change them often. This question annoys me tremendously, because we really shouldn’t be changing passwords often. We should instead be choosing authentication processes that appropriately match site risks; using a password should be the last thing you want to rely on.

First, think about the information and data a website is keeping on you. The sites we want to offer the most protections often have the weakest. Where you can, always add two-factor authentication to a site’s access. (Not all multi-factor authentication is created equally, but some sort of multi-factor is better than none. If it encourages attackers to go elsewhere, it’s done its job.

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ComputerWorld Independent

In a time of war, it’s important to stay secure

February 28, 2022 admin apple, Security, small and medium business, windows

Credit to Author: Susan Bradley| Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 06:09:00 -0800

As Russia invaded Ukraine, seeing the disruption in the world occur in near real time on social media brought poignancy to what was happening. While I don’t know anyone in Ukraine, I know many people who have friends or family members that have been impacted by the war. Ukraine has many technology ties around the world. It’s also been a source of cyberattacks, which is why there’s extra concern about what we can do to protect ourselves in case of attack. (Eastern Europe has often been the source of many of the ransomware attacks that occur around the world.)

So what can tech users do to ensure you protect yourself from possible cyberattacks arising from the conflict?

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