Windows 10 features that boost your PC’s security and privacy
Like almost all operating systems these days, Windows 10 is vulnerable to security and privacy issues, and researches have proved that Microsoft can track a lot of your activities to improve their products and enable personalized ads and promotions. […]
Here’s how a researcher broke into Microsoft VS Code’s GitHub
This month a researcher was awarded a bug bounty award of an undisclosed amount after he broke into the official GitHub repository of Microsoft Visual Studio Code. A vulnerability in VS Code’s issue management function and a lack of authentication checks enabled the researcher to obtain push access, and write to the repository. […]
Google fixes severe Golang Windows RCE vulnerability
This month Google engineers have fixed two vulnerabilities in the Go language (Golang), including a severe RCE flaw, and a cryptographic weakness. The RCE vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-3115 mainly impacts Windows users of Go running the ‘go get’ command, due to the default behavior of Windows PATH lookups. […]