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FBI Issues Warning for Windows 7 End-of-Life FBI Warns of Windows 7 Risks The FBI has announced there is a greater risk of getting hacked by using Windows 7 than ever before. The operating system reached its official end-of-life (EOL)...

New BootHole Vulnerability Affects Billions of Devices BootHole Vulnerability Severely Impacts Billions of Devices Billions of Windows and Linux devices across the globe are vulnerable due to a serious bug within the GRUB2 bootloader, researchers at Eclypsium revealed on Wednesday....

Google Chrome Fixes 8 Security Vulnerabilities New Chrome Vulnerabilities Discovered Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Google Chrome, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. These vulnerabilities can be exploited if a user visits or is...

Microsoft July Patch Tuesday Resolves 123 Vulnerabilities July Patch Tuesday Arrives With Over 120 Updates July Patch Tuesday has 123 vulnerabilities remediated, including 18 Critical with the remaining 105 marked Important. After next month, Microsoft will have released more updates than all of 2019 combined....

Hijacking Vulnerability Discovered in OneDrive Don't Wait to Update OneDrive Microsoft cloud storage solution, OneDrive, has been found to contain a vulnerability in version 19.232.1124.0010 which could allow it to be hijacked. We recommend upgrading OneDrive to 20.073.0409.0003 as quickly...

Microsoft Releases 6 Non-Security Updates for Office New Microsoft Office Updates On the first Patch Tuesday for the month of July, Microsoft have released 6 updates for Microsoft Office, and released their latest version of Microsoft Edge.  Although these updates...

Attackers Weaponizing Exchange Vulnerability Attackers Target Vulnerable Exchange Servers Microsoft is warning its customers that attackers are increasingly targeting unpatched Exchange servers, with a massive increase in activity since April. In February, Microsoft issued a patch for a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-0688,...

COVID-19 Causes Increase in Cyberattacks Coronavirus is Leading to Growth in Cyber Attacks As the world continues to battle COVID-19, patching and securing endpoints has become a much bigger challenge for businesses. A recent survey from Threatpost revealed that 40% of...

Lucifer Malware Targets Windows Systems New Malware Exploits Critical Vulnerabilities A new devilish malware is currently exploiting critical vulnerabilities on Windows devices. Nicknamed Lucifer, the self-propagating malware is targeting Windows systems with cryptojacking and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. This new...

Microsoft Releases Six Out-Of-Band Updates New Out-Of-Band Updates Released On June 22, Microsoft released six out-of-band Optional updates for Windows 8.1, 10, and Server 2012 to fix reported printing issues.  The following updates have been released: KB4567523 for Windows 10 Version...