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Starting in version 90, Chrome for Windows improves resilience against vulnerability exploitation by adopting Hardware-enforced Stack Protection. Together with existing protection measures, the Stack Protection should mitigate a variety of exploitation techniques, but could affect stability if it is not compatible with software that loads itself into Chrome.
Google Chrome now hinders attackers' efforts to exploit security bugs on systems with Intel 11th Gen or AMD Zen 3 CPUs, running Windows 10 2004 or later. This is possible after the adoption of Intel's Control-flow Enforcement Technology, supported on Windows 10 computers through an implementation known as Hardware-enforced Stack Protection which adds enhanced exploit protection to all compatible devices.
Dubbed "Pingback," this malware targets Microsoft Windows 64-bit systems, and uses DLL Hijacking to gain persistence. Abuses real Windows service to load malicious DLL. Today, Trustwave senior architect Lloyd Macrohon and principal security researcher Rodel Mendrez, have released their findings on a novel Windows malware that exists as a 64-bit DLL. Of note is the malware sample's choice of the communication protocol being ICMP, which is also used by the popular ping command and the Windows traceroute utility.
Before you can use a camera app in Windows 10 you have to allow access to the camera itself. This how-to tutorial shows you how to access camera settings in Windows 10 and how to grant permission to access a camera to specific apps.
Microsoft quietly revealed its plans to remove the Adobe Flash plugin from Windows 10, with mandatory removal starting in July 2021. In a quiet update to their end of support for Adobe Flash blog post, Microsoft has outlined their further plans on how they will begin distributing the Windows 10 KB4577586 update.
While the next update is all about improvements, preview builds and reports have suggested that Windows 10 version 21H2 is going to be a big release with something new for everyone. Windows 10 Sun Valley will update File Explorer to add a new Extract All option for OneDrive files.
Like other antivirus programs, Microsoft Defender will upload suspicious files to Microsoft to determine if they are malicious. "When Microsoft Defender scans your device, by default, it will use the"Automatic sample submission' feature to upload files to Microsoft's servers when a file is suspected to be malicious.
The Windows 10 Device Manager is getting a helpful upgrade that makes it easier to uninstall a specific driver by seeing what devices are using it. When Windows 10 detects a new hardware component, it will attempt to find a compatible driver to initialize the hardware in the operating system.
Microsoft has added AAC support for Bluetooth audio devices to the latest Windows 10 build released for Insiders in the Dev Channel. AAC is a lossy audio codec used by Apple devices and audio streaming platforms to provide high-quality audio streaming at low bitrates.
Microsoft released PowerToys v0.37.0 yesterday with minor improvements and a significant change - it now requires a minimum version of Windows 10 1903. For those unfamiliar with Microsoft PowerToys, they are a set of small freeware utilities created by Windows developers to add extra functionality to Windows 10 or solve everyday tasks.