October 2020 – Page 8

The Windows 10 Calculator has been ported to Linux

The Windows 10 Calculator has been ported to Linux and can be installed from the Canonical Snap Store. […]

The Week in Ransomware – October 16th 2020 – The weekend is upon us

Ransomware continues to target government entities and the enterprise, while victims quietly pay ransoms that power this cycle of attacks. […]

16 Oct

Google warned users of 33,000 state-sponsored attacks in 2020

Google delivered over 33,000 alerts to its users during the first three quarters of 2020 to warn them of state-sponsored phishing attacks targeting their accounts. […]

16 Oct

Nation-state actor hit Google with the largest DDoS attack

In an overview of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) trends targeting its network links, Google revealed that in 2017 a nation-state actor used massive firepower that amounted to more than 2.7 terabits per second. […]

16 Oct

ThunderX Ransomware rebrands as Ranzy Locker, adds data leak site

ThunderX has changed its name to Ranzy Locker and launched a data leak site where they shame victims who do not pay the ransom. […]

16 Oct

Microsoft issues out-of-band Windows security updates for RCE bugs

Microsoft has released two out-of-band security updates designed to address remote code execution (RCE) bugs found to affect Visual Studio Code and the Microsoft Windows Codecs Library. […]

16 Oct

UK urges orgs to patch severe CVE-2020-16952 SharePoint RCE bug

The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) today issued an alert highlighting the risks behind the recently addressed CVE2020-16952 remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server. […]

15 Oct

Twitter outage blocks users from tweeting, seeing notifications

Twitter is experiencing a worldwide service disruption preventing users from both sending tweets using Tweetdeck, the social network’s apps, and website, or from seeing their notifications. […]

15 Oct

Microsoft now lets you disable insecure JScript in Internet Explorer

Microsoft says that customers can now disable JScript (JScript.dll) execution in Internet Explorer 11 after installing the Windows October 2020 monthly security updates. […]

15 Oct

Microsoft adds refresh rate option to the Windows 10 settings

Microsoft is continuing its push to move all Windows 10 configuration options into their modern Settings feature. […]

Month: October 2020

The Windows 10 Calculator has been ported to Linux

The Week in Ransomware – October 16th 2020 – The weekend is upon us

Google warned users of 33,000 state-sponsored attacks in 2020

Nation-state actor hit Google with the largest DDoS attack

ThunderX Ransomware rebrands as Ranzy Locker, adds data leak site

Microsoft issues out-of-band Windows security updates for RCE bugs

UK urges orgs to patch severe CVE-2020-16952 SharePoint RCE bug

Twitter outage blocks users from tweeting, seeing notifications

Microsoft now lets you disable insecure JScript in Internet Explorer

Microsoft adds refresh rate option to the Windows 10 settings