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20-Year-Old Bug in Legacy Microsoft Code Plagues All Windows Users

20-Year-Old Bug in Legacy Microsoft Code Plagues All Windows Users

Rush Gorden August 21, 2019

A bug in an obscure legacy Windows protocol can lead to serious real-world privilege-escalation attacks. Source: 20-Year-Old Bug in Legacy Microsoft Code Plagues All Windows Users 20-year-old Windows code contains […]

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Rush Gorden August 7, 2019

The Linux Journal shuts down the publication. Magazines are dead now that nobody reads them anymore. Everything is on the Internet now and print is dead. It was a wild […]

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Severe local 0-Day escalation exploit found in Steam Client Services

Severe local 0-Day escalation exploit found in Steam Client Services

Rush Gorden August 7, 2019

This trivially-exploited security allows any user root—er, LOCALSYSTEM—privileges. Source: Severe local 0-Day escalation exploit found in Steam Client Services LOCALSYSTEM privileges give access to the file system and system files. […]

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Study: Humanity Just A Few More Bans Away From Only Having Good Opinions On The Internet

Study: Humanity Just A Few More Bans Away From Only Having Good Opinions On The Internet

Rush Gorden August 7, 2019

WORLD—There’s good news for the internet: studies show it’s now just a few bans away from finally only having good opinions on it. Much of social media had become dominated […]

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The 35 Words You Need to Python

The 35 Words You Need to Python

orion July 28, 2019

Let’s face it, learning to write computer programs is hard. Doing so involves picking up a lot of specialized skills and jargon, most of which is unfamiliar, and it also […]

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What the heck is Microsoft's 'all-new' Windows 1.0 tease about?

What the heck is Microsoft’s ‘all-new’ Windows 1.0 tease about?

Rush Gorden July 3, 2019

Microsoft’s social media team is having a bit of fun with a sizzler video and a callback to Windows 1.0 today, but what’s even stranger is it appears the company […]

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Ebooks Purchased From Microsoft Will Be Deleted This Month Because You Don't Really Own Anything Anymore

Ebooks Purchased From Microsoft Will Be Deleted This Month Because You Don’t Really Own Anything Anymore

Rush Gorden July 1, 2019

Anyone who bought ebooks through the Microsoft Store is in for a rude shock in the coming days. The good news? You can get a refund. The bad news? All […]

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Protesters storm Hong Kong Legilation

Rush Gorden July 1, 2019

Source: U.S. The World War between the haves and have nots continues in Hong Kong where protestors had to be tazed and hosed and tear gassed. In 1997 the UK […]

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Windows XP dies final death as Embedded POSReady 2009 reaches end of life

Windows XP dies final death as Embedded POSReady 2009 reaches end of life

Rush Gorden April 10, 2019

After 17 years, support for the last Windows XP variant comes to an end. Because of changes coming to Windows Update, users have until July to apply final patches. Source: […]

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Firefox, Edge, Safari, Tesla & VMware pwned at Pwn2Own

Firefox, Edge, Safari, Tesla & VMware pwned at Pwn2Own

Rush Gorden April 2, 2019

As we say “Security is a myth.” Source: Firefox, Edge, Safari, Tesla & VMware pwned at Pwn2Own If you use any of these products, you could be hacked. Find updates […]

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