Computer Safety & News

All users should promptly update applicable Adobe products as there current zero-day exploits circulating in the wild https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Adobe+Updates+Flash+Player+Shockwave+and+PDF+Reader/19917/ In a warm up to patch Tuesday, it looks like we have a new version for Adobe Flash Player, Shockwave Player and PDF Reader. Given that some of the exploits against the vulnerabilities patched are public, you […]

Over 21 million individuals had personal information in recent government agency data base breach by hackers as documented below http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/opm-personal-info-on-215-million-people-exposed-in-hack/d/d-id/1321252 The Office of Personnel Management today confirmed the final body count of victims affected by its massive data breach, which also exposed some 1.1 million fingerprints stored in the background-check database. The body count is […]

This change ties into recent concerns and Flash zero-day is the root cause of recent hacking incident in Italy, as well as other recent zero-day incidents. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2487628,00.asp Mozilla has blocked all versions of Adobe Flash Player in its Firefox browser after a recent breach left Flash vulnerable to attack.  “When Mozilla becomes aware of add-ons, plugins, […]

PC Magazine summarizes features and benefits found in latest build of Windows 10 as it is being prepared for the July 29th release. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2487499,00.asp Windows 10 is nearly here, and a major thrust of its design is to be more familiar to users of pre-8 versions of Windows. It’s a chance for everyone who missed […]