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New Microsoft Windows Update warning as ‘malicious’ attacks confirmed

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Update warning now issued for all Windows 10 and Windows 11 users NurPhoto via Getty Images Microsoft Windows users have been warned to urgently apply this month’s update after a new attack was discovered in the wild targeting Windows 10 and Windows 11. An alarming new report warns that this new zero-day attack is “a … Read more

Research shows that the risk of getting a malicious extension from the Chrome Store is much higher than what Google indicates

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Google this week reassured that vetting Chrome extensions catches most malicious code, even as it acknowledged that “as with any software, extensions can also pose risks.” Coincidentally, a trio of researchers from Stanford University in the US and the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany have just published a paper on recent data … Read more