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Microsoft: Emotet Took Down a Network by Overheating All Computers

Microsoft says that an Emotet infection was able to take down an organization’s entire network by maxing out CPUs on Windows devices and bringing its Internet connection down to a crawl after one employee was tricked to open a phishing email attachment. […]

01 Apr

How to Mitigate the Windows Font Parsing Zero-Day Bug via GPO

Active Directory (AD) admins can mitigate the recently disclosed and actively exploited remote code execution (RCE) zero-day found in the Windows Adobe Type Manager Library in large AD environments using group policies. […]

01 Apr

Microsoft is Alerting Hospitals Vulnerable to Ransomware Attacks

Microsoft has started to send targeted notifications to dozens of hospitals about vulnerable public-facing VPN devices and gateways located on their network. […]

31 Mar

Microsoft Updates Windows 10 PowerToys With New Utilities

Microsoft updated the open-source Windows 10 PowerToys toolset with new utilities for quickly switching between windows, for previewing files in Windows Explorer, and for batch resizing images from the context menu. […]

31 Mar

Microsoft Delays Disabling Insecure TLS in Browsers Until July

Microsoft announced today that it will delay disabling support for the insecure Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 protocols from Microsoft web browsers because of the current global situation until the second half of 2020, with an estimated time of roll out during July. […]

30 Mar

Windows 10 KB4554364 Update Fixes Internet Connectivity Issues

Microsoft has released an out-of-band Windows 10 update to fix a bug that was causing internet connectivity issues on devices with proxies, including virtual private networks (VPNs). […]

30 Mar

Microsoft Edge to Warn Of Credentials Leaked in Data Breaches

Microsoft Edge is introducing a new feature called “Password Monitor” that will alert users if their login credentials have been leaked in data breaches. […]

29 Mar

How to Replace Windows 10 System Programs With Non-Microsoft Apps

Windows 10 contains programs, such as Notepad and Task Manager, that we have come to love and use often as part of our daily use of a Windows computer. Sometimes, though, you may find that you want to replace these programs with more feature-rich third-party programs, but still be able to launch them like you […]

28 Mar

Microsoft’s Windows 10 Dockable ‘News Bar’ Now In Beta

Microsoft is releasing a new app for Windows 10 called the “Windows News Bar” that will display a docked bar containing news stories from Microsoft News and acts as a stock picker for monitored stocks. […]

26 Mar

Windows 10 Search Getting New Features for Business Customers

Microsoft developers are currently working on adding the Microsoft Search offering to the Windows 10 search boxes of Office 365 enterprise customers. […]

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