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Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Microsoft zero-day exploit

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Microsoft zero-day exploit

This Cybersecurity Threat Advisory highlights a high-severity Microsoft Office and Windows HTML remote code execution vulnerability, CVE-2023-36884, with a base CVSS score of 8.3 has been discovered. Through this vulnerability attackers can execute arbitrary code on affected systems, leading to...

/ August 15, 2023
Tech Time Warp: The truth about shatter attacks

Tech Time Warp: The truth about shatter attacks

In this week’s Tech Time Warp, we’re looking back at August 2002, when security researcher Kristin Paget published a whitepaper on the dangers of “shatter attacks,” and Microsoft had more than a few quibbles with it.

/ August 5, 2022
Malware targeted Windows users in Q1 2020

Malware targeted Windows users in Q1 2020

A new security report released by AV-Test showed some startling, but not surprising, malware statistics. The key takeaway from the study: Computers that run Windows are most prone to attacks by hackers. The AV-Test report discovered that 114 million new pieces of...

/ September 3, 2020
Tech Time Warp: Was the Welchia Worm well-intended?

Tech Time Warp: Was the Welchia Worm well-intended?

As the old saying goes, two wrongs don’t make a right — especially if the second “wrong” is a computer worm, albeit a benevolent one. In August 2003, hundreds of thousands of PCs were infected by the Blaster worm, which...

/ August 9, 2019 / 1 Comment
Tech Time Warp: Appreciate Windows 3.1 for all of its 16-bit glory

Tech Time Warp: Appreciate Windows 3.1 for all of its 16-bit glory

If you’re in search of some nostalgia on April 6, head over to the Internet Archive to celebrate the 27th anniversary of Microsoft’s release of Windows 3.1. Thanks to the hard work of dedicated developers, you can once again play...

/ April 5, 2019