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Microsoft has confirmed that July's security updates break remote desktop connections in organizations where Windows servers are configured to use the legacy RPC over HTTP protocol in the Remote Desktop Gateway. "Windows Servers might affect Remote Desktop Connectivity across an organization if legacy protocol is used in Remote Desktop Gateway. Resulting from this, remote desktop connections might be interrupted," Microsoft explained.
Cybercriminals use Facebook business pages and advertisements to promote fake Windows themes that infect unsuspecting users with the SYS01 password-stealing malware. While using Facebook advertisements to push information-stealing malware is not new, the social media platform's massive reach makes these campaigns a significant threat.
AnyDesk Software GmbH, the German company behind the widely used remote desktop application of the same name, has confirmed they've been hacked and their production systems have been compromised.The statement was published on Friday evening and lacks technical details about the breach.
Remote desktop software maker AnyDesk disclosed on Friday that it suffered a cyber attack that led to a compromise of its production systems. The German company said the incident, which it...
The Authy desktop apps for Windows, macOS, and Linux will be discontinued in August 2024, with the company recommending users switch to a mobile version of the two-factor authentication app. "We made this difficult decision to sunset the Twilio Authy desktop apps in order to streamline our focus and provide more value on existing product solutions for which we see increasing demand," explains Twilion in a new support document.
Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing Outlook Desktop clients to crash when sending emails from Outlook.com accounts. The known issue only impacts Outlook for Microsoft 365 users and those in the Current Channel channel using Outlook build 17029.
Intel has fixed a high-severity CPU vulnerability in its modern desktop, server, mobile, and embedded CPUs, including the latest Alder Lake, Raptor Lake, and Sapphire Rapids microarchitectures. "Under certain microarchitectural conditions, Intel has identified cases where execution of an instruction encoded with a redundant REX prefix may result in unpredictable system behavior resulting in a system crash/hang, or, in some limited scenarios, may allow escalation of privilege from CPL3 to CPL0," Intel said.
Microsoft has resolved a known issue causing significant delays for Microsoft 365 customers when saving attachments in Outlook Desktop. The bug is known to impact Outlook users trying to save an attachment to a network share, according to a support document published by Redmond when the bug was first acknowledged in July.
Microsoft says a new known issue is causing desktop icons to behave erratically on systems with multiple displays when using the Windows Copilot AI-powered digital assistant. "Windows devices using more than one monitor might experience issues with desktop icons moving unexpectedly between monitors or other icon alignment issues when attempting to use Copilot in Windows," Microsoft explains.
Learn how to use the scp command to transfer files securely with this step-by-step tutorial by expert Jack Wallen. If you regularly have to copy files from your desktop to another desktop or server, you might not want to use less secure protocols such as FTP. Fortunately, Secure Shell includes a command that makes copying files to and from a remote machine not only secure but fairly easy.