Microsoft has brought their remote app install feature to the Windows 10 Microsoft Store app and has officially called it "Push to Install". | Continue reading
New research shows that browser based Tech Support Scams are starting to utilize services normally found in legitimate call center operations. These services, called call optimization services, are typically used by call centers to perform call load balancing, call routing, dynam … | Continue reading
It has not been a good week for Piriform's PC cleaning tool CCleaner. With the release of CCleaner version 5.45, it was quickly discovered that the program's "Active Monitoring" component, which is utilized to send anonymous usage data back to Piriform, could no longer be disable … | Continue reading
Today Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17730 (Redstone 5) to the Insiders on the Fast Ring. This build continues to enhance the Your Phone experience with Android photo synching and iOS "Continue on your PC" being enabled. This build also introduces HTTP/2 to E … | Continue reading
Microsoft has just started the rollout of the Windows 10's Your Phone app for the Windows Insiders in the Fast Ring running the latest preview build that provides photo transfer functionality in Android. | Continue reading
Microsoft has just released a new update for the Outlook app on Android that adds the highly-anticipated do-not-disturb feature. | Continue reading
Malwarebytes has released a Chrome and Firefox extension called "Malwarebytes Browser Extension (BETA)" that aims to protect your computer while browsing the web. When installed, this extension will block malicious sites, popups, tech support scams, and also acts as an advertisin … | Continue reading
Online crooks promoting fake "giveaways" have tricked people out of 8,148 Ether, currently worth around $4.3 million, according to statistical data compiled in EtherScamDB. | Continue reading
Susan Bradley, an 18 year Microsoft MVP focused on Windows patching and patch management, has sent an open letter to Microsoft executives Satya Nadella, Carlos Picoto, and Scott Guthrie about the frustration Windows 10 users have when dealing with installing new updates. | Continue reading
An Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability that came to light last month has now been incorporated in the RIG exploit kit, a web-based toolkit that malware authors use to infect a site's visitors with malware. | Continue reading
The Microsoft To-Do app for Windows 10 is receiving a new update with a couple of new features. These features include the ability to exclude/hide completed items from the search results and to organize your to-do items. | Continue reading
The US Department of Justice announced today charges against three Ukrainian nationals believed to be members of the infamous FIN7 (Carbanak or Cobalt) hacker group. | Continue reading
Microsoft had first introduced the Your Phone app at its Build developer conference in May this year as a way to integrate a user's mobile devices with their Windows 10 PCs. The Your Phone app, which will be used to synchronize data between a mobile device and Windows 10, is now … | Continue reading
In a mocking and hilarious Chromebook ad, Google takes aim at the various issues Windows and macOS users encounter while using these operating systems. | Continue reading
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) can be defined as artificial intelligence (AI) that matches or surpasses human intelligence. It is, in brief, the type of intelligence through which a machine is able to perform any intellectual task that a human being can. And, it is current … | Continue reading
The SamSam ransomware has earned its creator(s) more than $5.8 million in ransom payments since late 2015, according to the most comprehensive report ever published on SamSam's activity, containing information since the ransomware's launch in late 2015 and up to attacks that have … | Continue reading
Bing Maps is not as widely used as some other mapping services like Google Maps, but Microsoft's still investing resources into it in order to develop new features. Today, for instance, the company has added the ability to customize itineraries of popular travel destinations. | Continue reading
A massive malvertising campaign has been exposed today in a report published by cybersecurity firm Check Point. | Continue reading
The US Department of Defense plans to implement HTTPS and HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) for all its public-facing websites by the end of the year. | Continue reading
The Mozilla Foundation, the organization behind the Firefox browser, is working on adding a new feature to its browser that is similar to the Site Isolation feature that Google rolled out to Chrome users this year. | Continue reading
Security researchers have discovered a new exploit kit, currently active mainly in Asian countries, which, they say, has been busy spreading bootkits and cryptocurrency-mining (coinminer) malware. | Continue reading
Mozilla is testing a new feature in Firefox called Time Travel Debugging. The feature is aimed at developers and is currently only available in the latest version of Firefox Nightly for Mac. | Continue reading
Microsoft said today that hackers compromised a font package installed by a PDF editor app and used it to deploy a cryptocurrency miner on users' computers. | Continue reading
Mozilla engineers are preparing to remove one of the Firefox browser's oldest features —its built-in support for RSS and Atom feeds, and inherently, the "Live Bookmarks" feature. | Continue reading
Microsoft has started shipping firmware updates for Surface Laptop and Surface Pro 4 devices that run the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update or the Windows 10 April 2018 Update. | Continue reading
A ransomware infection has crippled the US network of one of the world's largest shipping giants —COSCO (China Ocean Shipping Company). | Continue reading
In a letter sent today, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden asked officials from three government agencies to come up with solutions and procedures that mandate the removal of Adobe Flash content from all US government websites by August 1, 2019. | Continue reading
Outlook.com's big redesign is now rolling out to some accounts, and users can look forward to a fancy new look with features like Dark Mode, Emojis & GIFs, and more. The new design brings Outlook.com's interface in line with its Windows 10 Mail app. | Continue reading
A new version of the Kronos banking trojan is making the rounds, according to Proofpoint security researchers, who say they've identified at last three campaigns spreading a revamped version of this old trojan that had its heyday back in 2014. | Continue reading
Prior to the Trump-Putin summit that took place on July 16 in Helsinki, Finland, cyber-attacks on the host country saw an uncharacteristic spike of activity. | Continue reading
A cryptographic bug affects the Bluetooth implementations and operating system drivers of Apple, Broadcom, Intel, Qualcomm, and possibly other hardware vendors. | Continue reading
Microsoft announced today that they have reopened the Skip Ahead Ring for Windows 10 Insiders. If you have not had the opportunity to try skip ahead Windows 10 builds or want to join it again, you better do so quickly before all the spots are taken. | Continue reading
With Windows 10 Redstone 5 nearly feature-complete and close to entering the stabilization process, Microsoft is now preparing to begin work on the very next Windows 10 release internally codenamed Redstone 6/19H1. | Continue reading
The source code of a top-of-the-line Android banking trojan has been leaked online and has since rapidly spread in the malware community, worrying researchers that a new wave of malware campaigns may be in the works. | Continue reading
Earlier this month, we reported that a Dark Mode was coming to Outlook.com. Well, it is finally here and currently being slowly rolled out to Outlook.com users right now. | Continue reading
Academics from multiple universities have announced fixes for two severe security flaws known as Spectre and Rowhammer. | Continue reading
The July Patch Tuesday that was delivered two weeks ago included a second patch for an Internet Explorer zero-day discovered and initially fixed by Microsoft in May. | Continue reading
A security feature that's included with the Microsoft Edge browser appears to have stopped working, according to Gareth Heyes, a security researcher with cyber-security firm PortSwigger. | Continue reading
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter have announced on Friday, July 20, the Data Transfer Project (DTP), an initiative to create an open-source, service-to-service data portability platform so that users of their sites and others can easily migrate data from one platform to a … | Continue reading
Security researchers have discovered a precursor of the notorious Proton macOS malware. This supposed precursor appears to have been developed back in 2016, a year before Proton, and uploaded on VirusTotal, where it remained undetected for nearly two years until May 2018, when Ka … | Continue reading
The Microsoft To-Do app was recently updated on Windows 10 with the star feature and today a new update is rolling out to Android and iOS versions with similar changes. | Continue reading
For the past year, Android malware authors have been increasingly relying on a solid trick for bypassing Google's security scans and sneaking malicious apps into the official Play Store. | Continue reading
Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum today, Microsoft said it already blocked the first attempts of a Russian threat actor at hacking into the campaigns of three congressional candidates participating in the 2018 midterm elections. | Continue reading
A new version of the Screen Sketch app has been released that fixes blurry screenshots and an issue with updating the app from the Microsoft Store. This release brings the Screen Sketch app to version 10.1806.1901.0 and is currently only available to Windows Insiders running a pr … | Continue reading
Microsoft plans to officially support "leap seconds" in Windows 10 and Windows Server editions, the company has revealed today. | Continue reading
The vast majority of Venmo transactions are being logged in a public API accessible to anyone, according to the recent investigation of a privacy advocate. | Continue reading
LabCorp, the US' biggest blood testing laboratories network, announced on Monday that hackers breached its IT network over the weekend. | Continue reading
The US Department of Justice, Apple, and game maker Supercell, have been warned of a money laundering ring that uses fake Apple accounts and gaming profiles to make transactions with stolen credit/debit cards and then sells these game premiums on online sites for the group's prof … | Continue reading