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In an advisory to employees, IBM... said the company “is expanding the practice of prohibiting data transfer to all removable portable storage devices (eg: USB, SD card, flash drive)”...  because “the possible financial and reputational damage from misplaced, lost or misused removable portable

MS16-064 Security Update for Adobe Flash Player (3157993)    has been revised: KB 3163207 updates Flash (ActiveX) to 21.0.0.242 in Windows 8.1/10  [ KB 3157993, issued on Tuesday 5/10, had updated Flash (ActiveX) to 21.0.0.241  ]   

An estimated 33 million users deserted Microsoft's browsers last month [upping its loss to nearly 200M Internet Explorer users so far this year], pushing the Redmond, Wash. company's browser strategy ever closer to the edge of irrelevancy, according to analytics data published today. Interrnet Expl

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08/30/2016 SUPERAntiSpyware 6.0.1224 Technology Changes Service release Various bug fixes Available via the program's internal updater

Panda Free Antivirus 17.0 What's new in this version: Subscription and Device Management integrated in the product. Users can now manage their subscriptions (product management through My Account, Renewal and Upsell areas), as well as their anti-theft protection (My Devices area) from thei

SpywareBlaster database update 3/20/2016 15 NEW items (IE/ActiveX) for a total of 17,401 items in database After updating, be sure to enable all protection!

Windows Update KB3097877 (part of MS15-115 Security Update for Microsoft Windows to Address Remote Code Execution (3105864) ) is causing crashes in both Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013 when viewing HTML e-mails https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/482486ba-a378-4dcd-bd21-08ae19760b93/c

WOT for Firefox Version 20150421  (Released April 21, 2015) - Warning screen is made non-killable by a malicious website - Added Hindi language - Bugfixes . ------ . Remarks: . 1) While apparently released 21 April, FF's internal "check add-ons for u

CCleaner v5.14.5493 (26 Jan 2016) - New Browser Plugins section for browser start up management. - Improved Google Chrome and Opera session cleaning. - Improved Disk Analyzer file scanning process. - Improved TeamViewer and PDF Creator cleaning. - Updated exception handling and reporting architectu

MalwareBytes Anti-EXPLOIT (MBAE) The following was copied/pasted from http://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/malwarebytes-anti-exploit.354641/page-119#post-2561093 We've just posted the auto-upgrade to build 1189. Your MBAE should auto-upgrade over the next few hours/days. [The link for new dow

Zemana AntiLogger Free 1.8.2.320 Thursday, November 5, 2015 2:06 PM - Fully supports Windows 10 and the new MS Edge Browser. Improved handling of subsequent ALT-menu shortcut-keys. Internal Trusted Root CA Store updated. Fixed a protection issues with the following applic

As part of Mozilla’s “Go Faster” initiative for Firefox, the company is removing features that aren’t used by many and require a lot of technical effort to continually improve. We’ve learned that the first two features to get the axe are tab groups and complete themes. http://venturebeat.com/2015

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(Link c/o Bugbatter on Facebook) https://blog.malwarebytes.org/online-security/2015/11/readers-digest-and-other-wordpress-sites-compromised-push-angler-ek/

The problem is called DLL hijacking (or DLL side-loading) [CVE-2016-0603] and refers to the fact that malware authors can place DLLs of the same name in specific locations on the target's filesystem and have it inadvertently load the malicious DLL instead of the safe one... Here's a short (probably

I hope that the following is reasonably accurate summary of the articles I'll cite at the end: New CPUs will require Windows 10 [or the then-current Windows O/S, if they ever release a new version]: Windows 10 will be the only supported Windows platform on Intel's upcoming 7th-generation "Kaby Lake

MBAM 2.1.8.1057 is now available for public download from https://www.malwarebytes.org/ ; it should automatically be "pushed" to existing users (during a database update). Improvements: License key is now displayed on the My Account screen Remaining subscription duration now displayed on My A

SpywareBlaster database update 9/24/2014 17 new items [15 IE/ActiveX +2 IE/Restricted Sites] for a total of 17,087 items in database. after updating (via internal updater), be sure to enable all protection.

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