August 2020 - Page 7 of 14

Kali Linux gets a GUI desktop in Windows Subsystem for Linux

The Kali Linux Team is harnessing the power of the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 by spawning a graphic desktop environment that is shown directly within Windows. […]

18 Aug

Microsoft Defender ATP adds new malicious behavior blocking feature

Microsoft says that the Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) endpoint security platform now can contain malicious behavior on enterprise devices using the new endpoint detection and response (EDR) in block mode capability. […]

18 Aug

Kali Linux 2020.3 begins journey of replacing Bash with ZSH

Kali Linux 2020.3 was released today by Offensive Security, and it begins the first steps of switching from Bash as the default shell to ZSH. […]

18 Aug

Microsoft is killing off insecure Cloud App Security cipher suites

Microsoft today announced that some insecure cipher suites currently supported by Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS) will be removed later this year. […]

17 Aug

World’s largest cruise line operator Carnival hit by ransomware

Cruise line operator Carnival Corporation has disclosed that one of their brands suffered a ransomware attack over the past weekend. […]

17 Aug

Windows Control Flow Guard support added to Rust, Clang compilers

Microsoft today said that it worked with the LLVM and Rust development teams to add support for the Windows Control Flow Guard (CFG) platform security feature into the Clang and rustc compilers. […]

17 Aug

Popular Notepad++ text editor banned in China

China has banned the popular Notepad replacement software called Notepad++ due to the developer’s protests against the political unrest in Hong Kong and China’s human rights violations of the Uyghur people. […]

17 Aug

Google Chrome will warn users when submitting insecure forms

Google Chrome will warn users when submitting insecure forms that deliver information via HTTP connections on HTTPS websites starting with version 86. […]

17 Aug

Microsoft announces plans to ditch legacy Edge in Windows 10

Microsoft today announced the dates when Windows 10 and Microsoft 365 will no longer support the Microsoft Edge Legacy and Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) web browsers. […]

16 Aug

What’s new in Windows 10 20H2, arriving later this year

While the Windows 10’s fall feature update focuses on performance enhancements and bug fixes, these are some noticeable new features that we have outlined below. […]

Month: August 2020

Kali Linux gets a GUI desktop in Windows Subsystem for Linux

Microsoft Defender ATP adds new malicious behavior blocking feature

Kali Linux 2020.3 begins journey of replacing Bash with ZSH

Microsoft is killing off insecure Cloud App Security cipher suites

World’s largest cruise line operator Carnival hit by ransomware

Windows Control Flow Guard support added to Rust, Clang compilers

Popular Notepad++ text editor banned in China

Google Chrome will warn users when submitting insecure forms

Microsoft announces plans to ditch legacy Edge in Windows 10

What’s new in Windows 10 20H2, arriving later this year