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Microsoft promptly patched this week's 'wormable' Windows 10 flaw
By Sean Endicott published
Microsoft sent out a cumulative update recently that fixes a wormable vulnerability. Details of the vulnerability recently leaked online ahead of Patch Tuesday.

Microsoft: 99.9% of hacked people are compromised for one (ridiculous) reason
By Sean Endicott published
About 1.2 million Microsoft accounts were compromised just in January 2020. You can reduce the risk of yours being compromised by implementing on security feature by almost 100 percent.

AMD processors vulnerable to two new types of side-channel attacks
By Sean Endicott published
AMD processors are vulnerable to two new types of attacks, but they're not as bad as Meltdown and Zombieload.

Serious Intel CPU security flaw affects millions and can't be fixed
By Sean Endicott published
A security bug with many Intel systems can't be fixed except by replacing a CPU.

Microsoft removes recent security update: Here's how to uninstall it from your PC
By Sean Endicott published
A subset of Windows 10 PCs have issues with a recent security update.

You can keep track of how often you're tracked online with Firefox Privacy Protection
By Sean Endicott published
Mozilla Firefox now has a free reporting tool that outlines the number of social media trackers that Firefox has blocked.

#EFAIL vulnerability: What PGP and S/MIME users need to do right now
By Rene Ritchie published
Security researchers will be publishing what they claim are critical vulnerabilities in PGP/GPG and S/MIME email encryption on May 15. In the meantime, EFF advises you disable PGP email clients. GPUPG offers different advice.

How to set up two-factor authentication (2FA) for Twitter
By Serenity Caldwell published
Protect your account by enabling Twitter's two-factor authentication options.
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