In all, the update covers five Windows and Linux desktop CVE vulnerabilities, including one rated as critical.
Tag Archives: Operating Systems
Apple’s iOS pasteboard leaks location data to spy apps
A developer has discovered that malicious apps could exploit the pasteboard to work out a user’s location.
Android 11 to clamp down on background location access
Is Android finally about to get on top of the issue of apps that quietly suck up location data?
Nearly half of hospital Windows systems still vulnerable to RDP bugs
Almost half of connected hospital devices are still exposed to the wormable BlueKeep Windows flaw nearly a year after it was announced, according to a report released this week.
IE zero day and heap of RDP flaws fixed in February Patch Tuesday
Microsoft has finally patched the Internet Explorer (IE) zero-day flaw the company said in January was being used in “limited targeted attacks”.
Critical Android flaws patched in February bulletin
Google has patched Android bugs that include a couple of critical flaws that could let hackers run their own code on the mobile operating system.
NIST tests methods of recovering data from smashed smartphones
Criminals have found to their cost that reducing a device to a pile of rubble means nothing if the internal chips are still in working order.
Microsoft fixes critical bugs in CryptoAPI, RD Gateway and .NET
Here are the most serious bugs from Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday – Including CryptoAPI and RCE flaws in Windows Remote Desktop Gateway.
Google tests biometric authentication for Android autofill
Google is testing out a feature to make Android’s built-in password manager safer.
What’s behind Putin’s old-school operating system?
Reports surfaced this week that the president of Russia is still using Windows XP as his primary operating system.