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Security News for the Week Ending April 28, 2023

A Couple of Annoyed Redditors Launched Website to Anonymously Rate Your Landlord – What Could Possibly Go Wrong? While I understand why some folks might be annoyed at their landlord, how do you verify anything that is on the site? Until now there really hasn’t been a way to figure out whether a landlord treats […]

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Security News for the Week Ending February 28, 2020

Russia Behind Cyberattacks on Country of Georgia Last Year The State Department and the UK say that Russia was behind the attack on over ten thousand websites in the Country of Georgia last year. They also formally attributed Sandworm (AKA Voodoo Bear, Telebots and BlackEnergy) to Russia’s GRU Unit 74455. Sandworm is the group responsible […]

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Microsoft Loses Terabytes of Windows 10 Source Code

Both the NSA and CIA have been in the news way too many times recently when organizations like WikiLeaks and others released stolen software that the organizations would rather remain private.  In the case of the spy agencies, that software is their internally developed hacking tools. Now it is someone else’s turn. Microsoft has acknowledged […]

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Microsoft Uses Customer Bandwidth To Deliver Windows 10 Updates

For those of you who use Bit Torrent to download pirated movies, this post is for you.  Microsoft has turned every Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro user into a Bit Torrent node of sorts, delivering Microsoft updates to their millions of customers. Like other Windows 10 features (WiFi Sense, for example), I am […]

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