Google Smart Lock: The complete guide
Think fast: How many times a day do you pick up your phone to look at something? Unless you live in the tundra or have far more self-control than most, the answer probably falls somewhere between "quite a few"...
Microsoft to stop serving non-security monthly updates to Windows
Beginning in May, Microsoft plans to halt the delivery of all non-security updates to Windows, another step in its suspension of non-essential revisions to the OS and other important products.The optional updates, which Microsoft designates as Windows' C and...
Reading between the lines about Microsoft ‘pausing optional updates’
Yesterday, a post on the official Windows Release Information site said that Microsoft will, at least temporarily and starting in May, stop sending out the pesky “optional, non-security, C/D Week” patches we’ve come to expect. Those “optional” second-monthly patches are...
Don’t let the coronavirus make you a home office security risk
Congratulations. You're now the chief security officer of your company’s newest branch office: Your home. Here's how to manage your new job.
Microsoft Patch Alert: March 2020 brings two ‘sky-is-falling’ warnings, with no problems in sight
It’s been another strange patching month. The usual Patch Tuesday crop appeared. Two days later, we got a second cumulative update for Win10 1903 and 1909, KB 4551762, that’s had all sorts of documented problems. Two weeks later, on...
Post-coranavirus planning calls for more (not less) investment in tech
The coronavirus crisis is just beginning. But it will end. And how you fare after the pandemic depends on what you do right now.
Microsoft adds 6 months support for Windows 10 1709 to account for pandemic disruption
Microsoft today extended the support lifespan of Windows 10 Enterprise 1709 and Windows 10 Education 1709 by six months, pushing their retirements to Oct. 13. The original end-of-support date had been fixed as April 14.Microsoft cited the COVID-19 pandemic's...
COVID-19 and tech: New collaboration tools mean new security risks
As the coronavirus forces companies to move their communication and file sharing onto collaboration platforms, be prepared for unintended consequences: New security threats will surface, requiring new methods of securing your environment.
What your business should do about the coronavirus … right now
The Covid-19 crisis is the Black Swan event of our lifetime. Here's how to hold it all together (while keeping employees apart).
12 security tips for the ‘work from home’ enterprise
If you or your employees are working from home while our governments lurch awkwardly through the current crisis, then there are several security considerations that must be explored.Your enterprise outside the wall
Enterprises must consider the consequences of working from...
Take your time, get it right for March Patch Tuesday
This is a big update to the Windows platform for the Microsoft March Patch Tuesday release cycle. Consisting of 115 patches, mostly to the Windows desktop, with almost all of the critical issues relating to browser-based scripting engine memory...
Come on, Microsoft! Is it really that hard to update Windows 10 right?
Yesterday, on Patch Tuesday, as I was finishing up the column that follows lamenting the sorry state of Windows 10 patches and providing copious examples of things gone very wrong, a big, fat example landed in my lap (but...
Patch Tuesday’s tomorrow. We’re in uncharted territory. Get Automatic Updates paused.
It’s always a good idea to pause Windows updates just before they hit the rollout chute. This month, we’re facing two extraordinary issues that you need to take into account. Wouldn’t hurt if you told your friends and family,...
Enterprise resilience: Backup and management tips for iOS, Mac
Apple’s solutions are seeing increasing use across the enterprise, but do you have a business resilience strategy in place in case things go wrong?If you’re one of the estimated 73% of SMBs that have not yet made such preparation,...
Apple, the FIDO Alliance and the future of passwords
Apple is the latest firm to join the FIDO Alliance, an industry standards group developing more secure ways to log in to online accounts and apps using multi-factor authentication (MFA), biometric authentication and physical security keys. Computerworld's Lucas Mearian...
Huawei’s Worrying New China Problem Just Got Worse: Here’s Why
Huawei used its 2019 results to threaten retaliation against the U.S. But the company now has serious problems closer to home.
Palantir, The $20 Billion, Peter Thiel-Backed Big Data Giant, Is Providing A Coronavirus Monitoring Tool To The CDC
Palantir will help the Centers for Disease Control keep on top of ventilator and mask needs to treat coronavirus victims, sources say.
Defense Evasion Dominated 2019 Attack Tactics
Researchers mapped tactics and techniques to the MITRE ATT&CK framework to determine which were most popular last year.
Watering-Holes Target Asian Ethnic Victims with Flash Update Decoy
About 10 compromised websites employ a multi-stage, targeted effort to fingerprint and compromise victims.
OpenWRT is vulnerable to attacks that execute malicious code
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For almost three years, OpenWRT—the open source operating system that powers home routers and other types of embedded systems—has been vulnerable to remote code-execution attacks because updates were delivered over an unencrypted channel and digital...
