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Microsoft takes on Potentially Unwanted Applications

Starting March 1, 2018, Windows Defender Antivirus and other Microsoft security products will classify programs that display coercive messages as unwanted software, which will be detected and removed. If you’re a software developer and want to validate the detection of your programs, visit the Windows Defender Security Intelligence portal.   Unwanted software Identifying and analyzing unwanted software is a complex challenge. […]

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FREAK: All Windows versions are affected too

UPDATE on the FREAK vulnerability in SSL: it affects not only Android and iOS but all Windows versions too.   I wrote about the new SSL vulnerability called FREAK – Factoring RSA Export Keys – affects around 36% of all sites trusted by browsers and around 10% of the Alexa top one million domains, according to […]