Here you will find all the articles with the tag: windows.
Researchers at security company Proofpoint have found new malware that focuses on Windows systems. The so-called SystemBC installs a proxy on an infected computer and tries to get other malware. SystemBC is an on-demand proxy component that other malware creators can integrate and deploy on affec... Read more
5 years ago
Microsoft has included an update in a new preview of Windows 10, so that the installation of the operating system can be restored via the cloud. The Snip & Sketch tool also received several updates in the build of the 20H1 branch, which now appears in the Fast-ring for Windows Insiders. In b... Read more
5 years ago
The risk of exploiting BlueKeep, a vulnerability in the Windows remote desktop protocol (RDP), has increased significantly. This is because an online manual has been published on how to effectively exploit this vulnerability. A security researcher made the manual publicly available at GitHub in the... Read more
5 years ago
It's been a while since Windows 10 passed the once-popular Windows 7 as the most widely used PC operating system, but the final end of Windows 7 support is really coming up in half a year's time. However, ZDNet has information from three studies showing that the number of computers still running on ... Read more
5 years ago
Microsoft has had a very strong fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2019. The company even saw its market value exceed a trillion dollars (1ooo billion) again. However, we can see that growth in a significant part of the company is stagnating. Several departments of Microsoft again saw strong growth i... Read more
5 years ago
Over 800,000 systems are still vulnerable to Bluekeep, states security company BitSight Technologies. This is a vulnerability found in older versions of Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). The Bluekeep vulnerability, also known as CVE-2019-0708, was discovered in May at the May 2019 Patch Tue... Read more
5 years ago
Microsoft wants to investigate whether the Rust programming language can be used as an alternative to C and C++, among other things. In this way, the company hopes to improve the security of its apps and those of others. The announcement was made by Gavin Thomas, Principal Security Engineering Manag... Read more
5 years ago
The major Windows update of May this year is still relatively little installed. The main reason for this is an installation blocking by Microsoft itself, due to a number of problems with the compatibility between hardware and software. This caused, for example, error messages with connected USB devi... Read more
5 years ago
Microsoft has made its SQL Server 2019 available as Windows-based container images, writes The Register. This is a preview version of the Early Adopter Program. Previously, only Linux-based container images were available. The SQL Server 2019 was unveiled last year. With the preview of that time, Mi... Read more
5 years ago
Hackers are actively looking for systems to exploit with the dangerous Bluekeep vulnerability within Windows. That leak allows the infection with a worm virus. More than one million systems worldwide seem vulnerable. Criminals actively scan for computer systems that they can exploit with the Bluekee... Read more
5 years ago
