Security News
Microsoft is working on a fix for a known issue impacting Windows 11 customers and causing a prompt for admin credentials before every attempt to print. According to Microsoft, this problem impacts Windows environments where the print clients and print servers are in different time zones.
Microsoft has fixed a known Windows 10 issue causing smartcard authentication to fail when trying to connect using Remote Desktop after installing the cumulative updates released during last month's Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has already rolled out a fix to address this issue via the Known Issue Rollback feature to affected Windows 10 devices.
Windows 10, iOS 15, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Ubuntu 20 were successfully broken into using original, never-before-seen exploits at the Tianfu Cup 2021, the fourth edition of the international cybersecurity contest held in the city of Chengdu, China. The Chinese version of Pwn2Own was started in 2018 in the wake of government regulation in the country that barred security researchers from participating in international hacking competitions because of national security concerns.
With Windows 11, Microsoft has finally redesigned the modern Settings app. Thankfully, Windows 11 still comes with the Control Panel and File Explorer-based advanced configuration page called "God Mode" that allows you to easily access all advanced tools, features, and tasks.
282 yesterday with fixes for AMD CPU performance issues and a bug that displayed the Windows 10 taskbar. This build is available to Windows Insiders in the Beta and Release channels and fixes a long list of bugs plaguing users since Windows 11 was released.
Windows 10 users and administrators report widescale network printing issues after installing the KB5006670 cumulative update and other updates released this week. Since installing the KB5006670 update, users are reporting that they cannot print to network print servers, with some users receiving 0x00000709 or 'Element not found' errors when attempting to print.
Microsoft is testing a new method to deliver Windows update improvements starting with Insiders in the Dev Channel running Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22478. The new feature, dubbed Update Stack Package, will deliver improvements to the update experience outside of major OS updates before monthly or feature Windows updates.
Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out security patches to contain a total of 71 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and other software, including a fix for an actively exploited privilege escalation vulnerability that could be exploited in conjunction with remote code execution bugs to take control over vulnerable systems. At the top of the list is CVE-2021-40449, a use-after-free vulnerability in the Win32k kernel driver discovered by Kaspersky as being exploited in the wild in late August and early September 2021 as part of a widespread espionage campaign targeting IT companies, defense contractors, and diplomatic entities.
Google's VirusTotal service showing that 95 per cent of ransomware malware identified by its systems targets Windows. What systems are most attacked? 93.28 per cent of ransomware detected were Windows executables, and 2 per cent Windows DLLs, the report said.
Microsoft has released a Linux version of the very popular Sysmon system monitoring utility for Windows, allowing Linux administrators to monitor devices for malicious activity. Today, Microsoft's Mark Russinovich and a cofounder of the Sysinternals utility suite, announced that Microsoft had released Sysmon for Linux as an open-source project on GitHub.