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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. […]

24 Jan

Windows 10X feature will prevent unauthorized factory resets

In addition to a new user interface, Windows 10X also comes with a new feature called “Anti-theft protection”, which is a measure designed to prevent thieves from wiping and re-using stolen devices. […]

20 Jan

VLC Media Player 3.0.12 fixes multiple remote code execution flaws

VideoLan released VLC Media Player 3.0.12 for Windows, Mac, and Linux last week with numerous improvements, features, and security fixes. […]

19 Jan

Google Chrome 88 released: RIP Flash Player and FTP support

Google has released Chrome 88 today, January 19th, 2021, to the Stable desktop channel, and it includes security improvements and the long-awaited removal of Adobe Flash Player. […]

17 Jan

Windows 10X: A closer look at Microsoft’s new operating system

Windows 10X was originally designed for dual-screen devices, such as the Surface Neo, Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold, and Intel prototypes. In 2020, Microsoft said that the plans have changed and the operating system will first debut on single-screen devices in 2021. […]

17 Jan

Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 62% in 2020

The privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo continues to grow rapidly as the company reached 102M daily search queries for the first time in January. […]

15 Jan

Signal down after getting flooded with new users

Signal users are currently experiencing issues around the world, with users unable to send and receive messages. When attempting to send messages via Signal, users are seeing loading screen and error message “502”. […]

15 Jan

Undisclosed Apache Velocity XSS vulnerability impacts GOV sites

An undisclosed XSS vulnerability in Apache Velocity Tools can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to target government sites, including NASA. […]

13 Jan

It’s finally over! Time to uninstall Adobe Flash Player

It’s over, kaput, done. Adobe Flash Player is officially non-functional, and it’s time to uninstall the program once and for all. […]

12 Jan

Windows 10 Cumulative Updates KB4598229 & KB4598242 released

Today is first Patch Tuesday of 2021 and Microsoft is rolling out a new cumulative update for all supported version of Windows. The cumulative update with security fixes is rolling out to PCs with October 2020 Update, May 2020 Update, November 2019 Update, and May 2019 Update. […]

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