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Flaw in Dell’s SupportAssist: The Help that Hurts Many new Dell computers running Windows will come pre-installed with SupportAssist, which according to Dell’s website “provides automated, proactive and predictive technology that reduces troubleshooting steps and speeds up your resolution time.” ...

DHS: Patch Within 15 Days—Or Else The Department of Homeland Security has issued a new directive to government agencies, ordering them to quickly patch critical security vulnerabilities found on their networks within 15 calendar days. A new study is released...

Mayday! Windows May 2019 Update Will Be A Struggle for Small Disks As we reported back in January, the May release of 1903 will permanently reserve 7GB of disk space. It is also blocking updates on PCs that use USB...

How Forgotten Legacy Systems Could Be Your Downfall This article originally appeared in Infosecurity MagazineSome companies just simply swear by the adage, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" and continue to run workstations and servers on legacy systems. Take...

Sophos and Windows 7 Updates Incompatible Sophos Endpoint Antivirus is a hybrid antivirus solution that provides businesses protection against malware, viruses and offers a remote management tool. Regrettably, there are reports that it is not compatible with the latest Windows...

Thank You For Not Patching Nearly 60% of organizations that suffered a data breach in the past two years cite as the culprit a known vulnerability for which they had not yet patched. Half of organizations in a new Ponemon...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Updates Are Freezing Windows What's occurring and which versions are affected? Microsoft has confirmed that computers are freezing during the latest "Patch Tuesday" update process. However, the issue could be more prevalent than Microsoft is stating. Microsoft...

How to Boost Your Team's Efficiency by Automating IT Processes IT teams are responsible for making sure that all technologies and devices used in the workplace work. And, thanks to the widespread adoption of technology by businesses, almost all tasks...

Critical Red Hat Flash-Plugin Security Update RedHat have released an update for Flash, which upgrades it to 32.0.0.171 and impacts Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary version 6. Search your Syxsense console for...

April Patch Tuesday: Stop Active Exploits Microsoft have released 74 patches today covering IE, Edge, Exchange, Windows and Office. There are 13 rated Critical and 61 are Important. In this release there are no Moderate or Low in severity but...