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  • McAfee joins Sophos, Avira, Avast—the latest Windows update breaks them all
  • Android Browser flaw a “privacy disaster” for half of Android users
  • Oracle deprecates the Java browser plugin, prepares for its demise
  • Chrome picks up bonus security features on Windows 10
  • 12 more banks now being investigated over Bangladeshi SWIFT heist
  • Firefox’s faster, slicker, slimmer Quantum edition now out
  • Specially prepared photos shown bypassing Windows Hello facial recognition
  • Nvidia to cease producing new drivers for 32-bit systems
  • Skype finally getting end-to-end encryption
  • New Windows patch disables Intel’s bad Spectre microcode fix

McAfee joins Sophos, Avira, Avast—the latest Windows update breaks them all

Published: 2019-04-19 16:26:59

Popularity: 4479

Author: Peter Bright

Keywords:

  • Tech
  • anti-malware
  • anti-virus
  • microsoft
  • patch
  • security
  • Windows

    • A range of fixes and workarounds have been published.

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    Android Browser flaw a “privacy disaster” for half of Android users

    Published: 2019-03-08 00:39:58

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    🤖: "Browser fail"

    Bug enables malicious sites to grab cookies, passwords from other sites.

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    Oracle deprecates the Java browser plugin, prepares for its demise

    Published: 2019-03-07 23:57:52

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    It will be removed some time after the release of Java 9.

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    Chrome picks up bonus security features on Windows 10

    Published: 2019-03-07 23:57:06

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    The browser is now hardened against some classic Windows security flaws.

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    12 more banks now being investigated over Bangladeshi SWIFT heist

    Published: 2019-03-07 23:51:11

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    Symantec becomes the second firm to link the hack to the Sony Pictures attack.

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    Firefox’s faster, slicker, slimmer Quantum edition now out

    Published: 2019-03-07 22:42:57

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    It's as much as twice as fast as it was a year ago.

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    Specially prepared photos shown bypassing Windows Hello facial recognition

    Published: 2019-03-07 22:37:39

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    And the built-in protection against this technique doesn’t work on all hardware.

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    Nvidia to cease producing new drivers for 32-bit systems

    Published: 2019-03-07 22:37:34

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    Bit by bit, the PC world is continuing to drop its legacy support.

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    Skype finally getting end-to-end encryption

    Published: 2019-03-07 22:35:25

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    It’ll use the Signal protocol, also used in WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and others.

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    New Windows patch disables Intel’s bad Spectre microcode fix

    Published: 2019-03-07 22:33:09

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    Registry keys can also be used to selectively enable or disable the microcode fix.

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    Intel releases new Spectre microcode update for Skylake; other chips remain in beta

    Published: 2019-03-07 22:32:07

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    Previous microcode update was reported to cause unwanted system reboots.

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    From July on, Chrome will brand plain old HTTP as “Not secure”

    Published: 2019-03-07 22:32:06

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    The "Not secure" label will go where the padlock would go for an encrypted connection.

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    Intel’s latest set of Spectre microcode fixes is coming to a Windows update

    Published: 2019-03-07 22:28:48

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    Windows users will no longer be beholden to their motherboard makers.

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    AMD promises firmware fixes for security processor bugs

    Published: 2019-03-07 22:27:50

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    All bugs require administrative access to exploit.

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    As predicted, more branch prediction processor attacks are discovered

    Published: 2019-03-07 22:26:03

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    Author: Peter Bright

    New attack focuses on a different part of the branch prediction system.

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    Practical passwordless authentication comes a step closer with WebAuthn

    Published: 2019-03-07 22:25:45

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    Microsoft, Mozilla, and Google are all implementing the new standard.

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    AMD systems gain Spectre protection with latest Windows fixes

    Published: 2019-03-07 22:25:33

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    Author: Peter Bright

    Systems will still need updated firmware to get the latest microcode, however.

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    Intel at last announces Optane memory: DDR4 that never forgets

    Published: 2019-03-07 22:20:08

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    New memory offers huge capacities and persistence, but fits in a DDR4 slot.

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    New Spectre attack enables secrets to be leaked over a network

    Published: 2019-03-07 22:15:38

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    It's no longer necessary to run attacker code on the victim system.

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    Windows 10 to get disposable sandboxes for dodgy apps

    Published: 2019-03-07 22:14:46

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    Apps will be run in a virtual machine that's discarded after use.

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    Intel’s SGX blown wide open by, you guessed it, a speculative execution attack

    Published: 2019-03-07 22:13:35

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    Speculative execution attacks truly are the gift that keeps on giving.

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    Chrome 69 will take the next step to killing Flash, roll out new design

    Published: 2019-03-07 22:13:04

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    Flash will have to be enabled every time a site tries to use it.

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    Google backtracks—a bit—on controversial Chrome sign-in feature

    Published: 2019-03-07 22:10:27

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    Privacy-conscious users were unhappy at being signed in to browser without consent.

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    Microsoft offers completely passwordless authentication for online apps

    Published: 2019-03-07 22:10:17

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    Author: Peter Bright

    Phone-based authentication is the way forward instead.

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    Google taking new steps to prevent malicious Chrome extensions

    Published: 2019-03-07 22:09:13

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    Company plans stricter rules for developers and greater control for users.

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    Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla come together to end TLS 1.0

    Published: 2019-03-07 22:07:54

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    Almost everyone has now migrated to TLS 1.2, and a few have moved to TLS 1.3.

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    Another Windows 0-day flaw has been published on Twitter

    Published: 2019-03-07 22:06:40

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    And on GitHub there's a proof-of-concept that'll render your system unbootable.

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    Windows 7 enters its final year of free support

    Published: 2019-03-07 21:59:39

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    Up to three years of paid support will be available after the cut-off.

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    Microsoft’s fonts catch out another fraudster—this time in Canada

    Published: 2019-03-07 21:58:46

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    Will these people never learn?

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    Mandatory update coming to Windows 7, 2008 to kill off weak update hashes

    Published: 2019-03-07 21:57:22

    Popularity: None

    Author: Peter Bright

    Microsoft is phasing out SHA-1 hashes on its patches.

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