Windows XP Support Ending, What does that mean to you?
Support for Microsoft’s popular operating system, Windows XP will end on April 8, 2014, 12 years after it was introduced to PC users.
September 2013 Patch Tuesday Preview
Microsoft announced its lineup for next week’s Patch Tuesday. We will get 14 bulletins, already bringing the number for this year to 80 in September. We are well on our way to get more than 100 bulletins this year compared to 83 in 2012 and exactly 100 in 2011, a good reflection of how challenging the computer security business continues to be.
Hackers may cash in when XP is retired
Hackers could find themselves in the catbird seat on April 8, 2014 -- the day Microsoft plans to stop patching Windows XP. As security expert Jason Fossen sees it, those who have zero-day exploits for XP will bank them until that day and then sell them to crooks or loose them themselves on unprotected PCs.
Microsoft security update may break Windows 7
an posting from NBC news in there Technology section: A…
Four Ways To Strengthen SMB Password Security
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Russian ransomware takes advantage of Windows PowerShell
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Windows 8 to get first ‘critical’ security update
Windows 8, available publicly for two weeks now, is getting its first security update Nov. 13. It includes three critical updates; Windows 8 RT, for Microsoft's Surface tablet, has one critical update.
Microsoft Urges Customers to Install Security Tool
Microsoft Corp urged Windows users on Monday to install a free piece of security software to protect PCs from a newly discovered bug in the Internet Explorer browser.
Security Bulletin: MS12-020 high-risk vulnerability in the RDP (Remote Desktop)
On March 14, 2012, Microsoft released a critical software patch that fixes a very high-risk vulnerability in the RDP (Remote Desktop) service installed on most Windows-based systems. The vulnerability may allow the execution of malicious code by sending a malformed packet to an RDP enabled system.
Security Bulletin: MS12-020
