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Category Archives: Microsoft

At last! Office macros from the internet to be blocked by default

February 8 2022 By Paul Ducklin in Malware, Microsoft, Security, Security threats

It's been a long time coming, and we're not there yet, but at least Microsoft Office will be a bit safer against macro malware...

How Phishers Are Slinking Their Links Into LinkedIn

February 3 2022 By BrianKrebs in A Little Sunshine, Latest Warnings, Microsoft, Security, Web Fraud 2.0

If you received a link to LinkedIn.com via email, SMS or instant message, would you click it? Spammers, phishers and other ne'er-do-wells are hoping you will, because they've long...

Finding Vulnerabilities in Open Source Projects

February 2 2022 By Bruce Schneier in Google, Microsoft, Security, vulnerabilities

The Open Source Security Foundation announced $10 million in funding from a pool of tech and financial companies, including $5 million from Microsoft and Google, to find...

S3 Ep66: Cybercrime busts, wormable Windows, and the crisis of featuritis [Podcast + Transcript]

January 20 2022 By Paul Ducklin in Apple, Cryptography, Cybercrime, iOS, Law & order, Linux, Microsoft, Podcast, Security, Vulnerability, Windows

Latest epsiode - listen now!

Wormable Windows HTTP hole – what you need to know

January 12 2022 By Paul Ducklin in Microsoft, Security, Vulnerability

One bug in the January 2022 Patch Tuesday list is getting lots of attention: "HTTP Protocol Stack Remote Code Execution Vulnerability".

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2021 Edition

December 14 2021 By BrianKrebs in Google, Microsoft, Satnam Narang, Security, Tenable, Time to Patch

Microsoft, Adobe, and Google all issued security updates to their products today. The Microsoft patches include six previously disclosed security flaws, and one that that is already being actively...

Check your patches – public exploit now out for critical Exchange bug

November 23 2021 By Paul Ducklin in Microsoft, Patch, Security, Vulnerability, Zero-day

It was a zero-day bug until Patch Tuesday, now there's an anyone-can-use-it exploit. Don't be the one who hasn't patched.

Is Microsoft Stealing People’s Bookmarks?

November 17 2021 By Bruce Schneier in Microsoft, Privacy, Security

I received email from two people who told me that Microsoft Edge enabled synching without warning or consent, which means that Microsoft sucked up all of their bookmarks. Of...