Category Added in a WPeMatico Campaign
A new malware has been making the headlines over the past few days. The rootkit, that has been identified as Moonbounce, is a persistent malware that can survive drive formats and OS reinstalls. This is not a regular trojan or virus that impacts Windows, it is a sophisticated bootkit that targets your motherboard’s firmware, United […]
The Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team has revealed that it discovered a security vulnerability in macOS Monterey. This is the 2nd time the Redmond company discovered a security issue in macOS, after the Shrootless vulnerability, that came to light in October 2021. What is the Powerdir vulnerability? It is a security loophole that impacts a […]
Et Tu, Avira? Ashwin reported last week that Norton was adding a new component, called Norton Crypto, to its security products. Norton Crypto is a crypto currency miner that will run when the system is detected as idle. It appears that Avira is doing the same. source: Avira Avira Crypto is a crypto mining component […]
The developer of the password manager KeePass released KeePass 2.50 to the stable channel. The new version of the program speeds up key derivation functions significantly. The new version of KeePass 2 comes days after the release of KeePass 1.40, which featured similar performance improvements among other changes. Any KeePass 2 installation or portable copy […]
The latest version of the open source encryption software VeraCrypt brings back support for the operating systems Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. The developers of VeraCrypt released VeraCrypt 1.25.4 in December 2021. One of the changes of the release was the removal of support for Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 / […]
Some users of the LastPass password manager revealed this week that they have received emails from LastPass stating that logins to their accounts using the account’s master password were blocked. The first of these reports was published on Hacker News. The emails that are sent out by LastPass state that LastPass blocked a login attempt. […]
Bitdefender Free, a free security solution by Bitdefender, will be retired on December 31, 2021. Customers who use Bitdefender Free will receive support for Bitdefender Free until June 30,2022. Downloads are already removed from the Bitdefender website, and customers find listings for the company’s commercial products on the page instead. Downloads hosted elsewhere on the […]
When you load a Microsoft Office 2021 application, its Start Screen is displayed by default. The Start Screen displays available templates and the last documents you worked with while using the application. Office 2021 users who prefer to start in a blank file, e.g. a Word document or Excel spreadsheet, can disable the Start Screen […]
There is a 0-day vulnerability for Windows, called InstallerFileTakeOver, which Microsoft has yet to address. The vulnerability was discovered by Abdelhamid Naceri, a security researcher, who discovered two other 0-day vulnerabilities in Windows this year already. We mentioned the vulnerability in late November 2021 already here on this site. The issue was unpatched back then […]
Microsoft Office is probably one of the most pirated software, besides Windows, of course. If you have a pirated version of Office, but want to buy a legit license, you maybe interested in this. Microsoft is offering users with a pirated version of Office a discount for a Microsoft 365 subscription. A friend of mine […]