August 2020 – We Fix PC

Windows 10 2004 now blocked on devices with LTE cellular modems

Microsoft has acknowledged another known issue affecting Windows 10 devices with WWAN LTE cellular modems and is now blocking Windows 10, version 2004 from being installed on them until a solution will be available. […]

31 Aug

American Payroll Association discloses credit card theft incident

The American Payroll Association (APA) disclosed a data breach affecting members and customers after attackers successfully planted a web skimmer on the organization’s website login and online store checkout pages. […]

31 Aug

Lenovo warns of Windows 10 2004 crashing ThinkPad laptops

Lenovo has issued an advisory warning that Windows 10 2004, the May 2020 Update, can cause BSODs in various ThinkPad laptop models. […]

31 Aug

Malware authors trick Apple into trusting malicious Shlayer apps

The authors of the Mac malware known as Shlayer have successfully managed to get their malicious payloads through Apple’s automated notarizing process. […]

31 Aug

Hackers are backdooring QNAP NAS devices with 3-year old RCE bug

Hackers are scanning for vulnerable network-attached storage (NAS) devices running multiple QNAP firmware versions, trying to exploit a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability addressed by QNAP in a previous release. […]

30 Aug

You have two days left to purchase 2-year TLS/SSL certificates

If you are looking to purchase a 2-year TLS or SSL certificate, you have only two days left before all new certificates will have a maximum 397 day validity period. […]

30 Aug

CenturyLink routing issue led to outages on Hulu, Steam, Discord, more

A CenturyLink BGP routing mistake has led to a ripple effect across the Internet that led to outages for numerous Internet-connected services such as Cloudflare, Amazon, Garmin, Steam, Discord, Blizzard, and many more. […]

30 Aug

Slack pays stingy $1,750 reward for a desktop hijack vulnerability

A researcher responsibly disclosed multiple vulnerabilities to Slack that allowed an attacker to hijack a user’s computer, and they were only rewarded a measly $1,750. […]

30 Aug

Namecheap hosting and email DOWN in prolonged outage

One of the world’s largest domain registrars, Namecheap has been hit with a series of mysterious outages today and it is not clear why.. […]

29 Aug

Windows 10 21H1: The exciting features in next year’s major update

In this article, we’ve highlighted the new features that Microsoft is currently testing for Windows 10 21H1 and greater. […]

Month: August 2020

Windows 10 2004 now blocked on devices with LTE cellular modems

American Payroll Association discloses credit card theft incident

Lenovo warns of Windows 10 2004 crashing ThinkPad laptops

Malware authors trick Apple into trusting malicious Shlayer apps

Hackers are backdooring QNAP NAS devices with 3-year old RCE bug

You have two days left to purchase 2-year TLS/SSL certificates

CenturyLink routing issue led to outages on Hulu, Steam, Discord, more

Slack pays stingy $1,750 reward for a desktop hijack vulnerability

Namecheap hosting and email DOWN in prolonged outage

Windows 10 21H1: The exciting features in next year’s major update