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12-year-old Windows Defender bug gives hackers admin rights

Microsoft has fixed a privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Defender Antivirus (formerly Windows Defender) that could allow attackers to gain admin rights on unpatched Windows systems. […]

10 Feb

Microsoft Office February security updates patch Sharepoint, Excel RCE bugs

Microsoft has addressed important severity remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting multiple Office products in the January 2021 Office security updates. […]

10 Feb

Microsoft fixes Windows 10 bug letting attackers trigger BSOD crashes

Microsoft has fixed a bug that could allow a threat actor to create specially crafted downloads that crash Windows 10 simply by opening the folder where they are downloaded. […]

09 Feb

Microsoft urges customers to patch critical Windows TCP/IP bugs

Microsoft has urged customers today to install security updates for three Windows TCP/IP vulnerabilities rated as critical and high severity as soon as possible. […]

09 Feb

Microsoft: Recent Windows 10 gaming issues caused by Discord bug

Microsoft has acknowledged a known issue that was causing Direct3D 12 games to fail to launch or crash with an error on some Windows 10 devices. […]

08 Feb

Microsoft to alert Office 365 users of nation-state hacking activity

Microsoft will soon notify Office 365 of suspected nation-state hacking activity detected within their tenants according to a new listing on the company’s Microsoft 365 roadmap. […]

06 Feb

Mozilla fixes Windows 10 NTFS corruption bug in Firefox

Mozilla has released Firefox 85.0.1 and includes a fix that prevents a Windows 10 NTFS corruption bug from being triggered from the browser. […]

05 Feb

Windows 10 April updates remove Microsoft Edge Legacy permanently

Microsoft has announced today that Microsoft Edge Legacy will be permanently removed and replaced with the new Microsoft Edge after installing April’s Windows 10 Patch Tuesday security update. […]

05 Feb

Microsoft warns of increasing OAuth Office 365 phishing attacks

Microsoft has warned of an increasing number of consent phishing (aka OAuth phishing) attacks targeting remote workers during recent months, BleepingComputer has learned. […]

04 Feb

Windows 10 2004 now in broad deployment, available to everyone

Microsoft has announced that Windows 10, version 2004 has now been added to the broad deployment channel and will be available to everyone via Windows Update. […]

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