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February, 2020 Patch Tuesday brings a century of updates to Microsoft, Adobe products

February 11, 2020 admin Acrobat, adobe, Flash, microsoft, Patch Tuesday, SophosLabs Uncut, windows

Credit to Author: SophosLabs Offensive Security| Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 20:50:22 +0000

For this second Patch Tuesday of 2020, Microsoft has released a hundred patches to Windows and other Microsoft software, including 12 vulnerabilities flagged as Critical, and 87 flagged as Important. In addition, Adobe also published updates for its Flash Player, Acrobat, Framemaker, Experience Manager, and Digital Editions products in notifications timed to coincide with Microsoft’s […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/zpsWY9HeJhU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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For Patch Tuesday, verify you have 'Pause Updates' enabled

February 11, 2020 admin microsoft, Security, windows

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 12:13:00 -0800

Remember the frenzy after last month’s Patch Tuesday? How everybody and his twice-removed cousin — even the N forkin’ SA — told you to get patched immediately because of this big, spooky Crypto API security hole that was supposed to bring down Windows As We Know It, like, right now?

Guess what. It never materialized.

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MalwareBytes Security

Malwarebytes Labs releases 2020 State of Malware Report

February 11, 2020 admin 2020 state of malware report, Adware, Android, Android malware, Data Privacy, emotet, hacktools, iOS, Mac, MacOS, ransomware, reports, ryuk, Sodinokibi, State of Malware, state of malware report, trickbot, trojans, web threats, windows

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 08:01:00 +0000

The 2020 State of Malware Report reveals how cybercriminals upped the ante on businesses, Mac threats outpaced PCs, and ransomware continued its targeted, deadly assault with new families in 2019. Learn all this and more in the full report, linked in our blog.

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Tags: 2020 state of malware report adware Android android malware Data privacy emotet hacktools iOS mac macOS ransomware ryuk Sodinokibi State of Malware state of malware report trickbot Trojans web threats windows

ComputerWorld Independent

Patch Tuesday’s tomorrow. Verify you have 'Pause Updates' enabled

February 10, 2020 admin microsoft, Security, windows

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 12:13:00 -0800

Guess what. It never materialized.

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QuickHeal Security

Unable to Shut down or Restart Windows 7 systems?

February 8, 2020 admin cybersecurity, news, windows

Credit to Author: Viraj Talikotkar| Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2020 09:45:00 +0000

In the last two days, we have received reports from Windows 7 users who have been unable to shut down or restart their PC and ran into the below error. While the exact cause of the issue is yet to be ascertained there is no official confirmation from Microsoft yet….

QuickHeal Security

Unable to Shut down or Restart Windows 7 systems

February 8, 2020 admin cybersecurity, news, windows

Credit to Author: Viraj Talikotkar| Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2020 09:45:00 +0000

Kaspersky Security

Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 128

February 6, 2020 admin eff, GDPR, microsoft, news, podcast, ring, windows

Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 14:25:44 +0000

On this podcast, Dave and Jeff talk shop on the latest security issues exposed in Ring, GDPR’s impact, corporate espionage, a surprise Microsoft update, and more.

ComputerWorld Independent

It’s not too late to get an Extended Security Update license for Windows 7

February 5, 2020 admin microsoft, Security, windows

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 04:42:00 -0800

Worried about the future of your Win7 machine? Welcome to the family.

Right now, we have a promise that Microsoft will fix the “Stretch” wallpaper bug it rolled out last month, and there’s some hope that it will fix the Internet Explorer JScript engine security hole CVE-2020-0674 noted last month in Security Advisory ADV200001. We don’t know how/when the fix(es) will be distributed, or if Microsoft will soften its “no free Win7 patches after January 14” edict in some other way.

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