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The Great Suspender Chrome extension’s fall from grace

Google has forcibly uninstalled the immensely popular ‘The Great Suspender’ extension from Google Chrome and classified it as malware. […]

06 Feb

This Flash Player emulator lets you securely play your old games

A Flash Player emulator called ‘Ruffle’ allows you to play your archived Flash games without fear of being attacked as you browse the web. […]

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. […]

31 Jan

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. […]

27 Jan

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. […]

26 Jan

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. […]

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