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Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 “quick recovery” feature

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Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 “quick recovery” feature 2025-07-23 at 18:31 By Zeljka Zorz With the latest Windows 11 update, Microsoft is saying goodbye to the infamous “Blue Screen of Death” and has enabled the quick machine recovery feature by default for Home users. “For nearly four decades, the blue screen shown during an unexpected […]

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Vulnerable firmware for Gigabyte motherboards could allow bootkit installation

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Vulnerable firmware for Gigabyte motherboards could allow bootkit installation 2025-07-15 at 16:19 By Zeljka Zorz UEFI firmware running on 100+ Gigabyte motherboard models is affected by memory corruption vulnerabilities that may allow attackers to install persistent and difficult-to-detect bootkits (i.e., malware designed to infect the computer’s boot process). “While AMI (the original firmware supplier) has

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Fake online stores look real, rank high, and trap unsuspecting buyers

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Fake online stores look real, rank high, and trap unsuspecting buyers 2025-07-10 at 08:32 By Sinisa Markovic Shopping on a fake online store can lead to more than a bad purchase. It could mean losing money, having your identity stolen, or even getting malware on your device. E-shop scams rose by 790% in the first

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Windows 10: How to get security updates for free until 2026

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Windows 10: How to get security updates for free until 2026 2025-06-25 at 14:45 By Zeljka Zorz Users who want to stick with Windows 10 beyond its planned end-of-support date but still receive security updates, can enroll into the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, Microsoft has confirmed on Tuesday. Microsoft’s (self-evident) long-term goal

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Millions of Android devices roped into Badbox 2.0 botnet. Is yours among them?

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Millions of Android devices roped into Badbox 2.0 botnet. Is yours among them? 2025-06-06 at 16:09 By Zeljka Zorz Millions of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices running the open-source version of the Android operating system are part of the Badbox 2.0 botnet, the FBI has warned. Cyber criminals are using the botnet to perform ad fraud and

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Windows 11 quick machine recovery: Restoring devices with boot issues

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Windows 11 quick machine recovery: Restoring devices with boot issues 2025-03-31 at 12:46 By Zeljka Zorz Microsoft has rolled out quick machine recovery, a new Windows feature aimed at preventing prolonged widespread outages like the one caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update in July 2024. The goal of the feature is to allow IT administrators

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DeepSeek’s popularity exploited by malware peddlers, scammers

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DeepSeek’s popularity exploited by malware peddlers, scammers 2025-01-29 at 15:18 By Zeljka Zorz As US-based AI companies struggle with the news that the recently released Chinese-made open source DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model performs as well as theirs for a fraction of the cost, users are rushing to try out DeepSeek’s AI tool. In the process, they

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Consumers wrongly attribute all data breaches to cybercriminals

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Consumers wrongly attribute all data breaches to cybercriminals 2024-12-18 at 06:01 By Help Net Security Breaches in 2024 had less impact on consumers’ trust in brands compared to the previous year (a 6.5% decrease from 62% in 2023 to 58% in 2024), according to a recent Vercara report. Most consumers also remain unaware of the

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Black Friday shoppers targeted with thousands of fraudulent online stores

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Black Friday shoppers targeted with thousands of fraudulent online stores 2024-11-26 at 13:33 By Zeljka Zorz Building fake, fraudulent online stores has never been easier: fraudsters are registering domain names for a pittance, using the SHOPYY e-commerce platform to build the websites, and leveraging large language models (LLMs) to rewrite existing product listings to perfect

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FBI forced Flax Typhoon to abandon its botnet

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FBI forced Flax Typhoon to abandon its botnet 2024-09-19 at 14:16 By Zeljka Zorz A botnet operated by the Chinese state-sponsored threat actor known as Flax Typhoon has been disrupted by the law enforcement agency and abandoned by the group, FBI Director Chris Wray confirmed on Wednesday. “We executed court-authorized operations to take control of

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Critical flaw in Zyxel’s secure routers allows OS command execution via cookie (CVE-2024-7261)

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Critical flaw in Zyxel’s secure routers allows OS command execution via cookie (CVE-2024-7261) 2024-09-03 at 16:01 By Zeljka Zorz Zyxel has patched a myriad of vulnerabilities in its various networking devices, including a critical one (CVE-2024-7261) that may allow unauthenticated attackers to execute OS commands on many Zyxel access points (APs) and security routers by

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Malware peddlers love this one social engineering trick!

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Malware peddlers love this one social engineering trick! 2024-06-17 at 16:16 By Zeljka Zorz Attackers are increasingly using a clever social engineering technique to get users to install malware, Proofpoint researchers are warning. The message warns of a problem but also offers a way to fix it (Source: Proofpoint) Social engineering users to install malware

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Attackers may be using TunnelVision to snoop on users’ VPN traffic (CVE-2024-3661)

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Attackers may be using TunnelVision to snoop on users’ VPN traffic (CVE-2024-3661) 2024-05-08 at 16:31 By Zeljka Zorz Researchers have brought to light a new attack method – dubbed TunnelVision and uniquely identified as CVE-2024-3661 – that can be used to intercept and snoop on VPN users’ traffic by attackers who are on the same

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UK enacts IoT cybersecurity law

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UK enacts IoT cybersecurity law 2024-04-29 at 17:01 By Zeljka Zorz The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (PSTI) Act has come into effect today, requiring manufacturers of consumer-grade IoT products sold in the UK to stop using guessable default passwords and have a vulnerability disclosure policy. “Most smart devices are manufactured outside the UK, but

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Apps secretly turning devices into proxy network nodes removed from Google Play

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Apps secretly turning devices into proxy network nodes removed from Google Play 2024-03-26 at 12:16 By Zeljka Zorz Your smartphone might be part of a proxy network, and you might not even know it: all it takes is for you to download apps whose developers have included the functionality and didn’t mention it. If that

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BSAM: Open-source methodology for Bluetooth security assessment

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BSAM: Open-source methodology for Bluetooth security assessment 2024-03-13 at 08:39 By Zeljka Zorz Many wireless headsets using Bluetooth technology have vulnerabilities that may allow malicious individuals to covertly listen in on private conversations, Tarlogic Security researchers have demonstrated last week at RootedCON in Madrid. “Many of the examples presented during the conference were real tests

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Avast ordered to pay $16.5 million for misuse of user data

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Avast ordered to pay $16.5 million for misuse of user data 2024-02-23 at 13:18 By Help Net Security The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider Avast to pay $16.5 million and prohibit the company from selling or licensing any web browsing data for advertising purposes to settle charges that the company and its subsidiaries

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Microsoft will offer extended security updates for Windows 10

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Microsoft will offer extended security updates for Windows 10 06/12/2023 at 16:16 By Zeljka Zorz Microsoft will not abandon Windows 10 users to an insecure fate once it reaches end of support (EOS) on October 14, 2025: both enterprises and individual consumers will be able receive Extended Security Updates (ESU), but will have to pay

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