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Today’s roundup of what’s new in the Windows Store includes a blockbuster movie sale, new music and a new season of a hit TV series! Movies & TV Season 4 of Orange is the New Black on Netflix – Free Visiting hours have begun. Season 4 of Orange is the New Black on now streaming on Netflix (free download, subscription required)! Get the app from the Windows Store today and start watching. Blockbuster Movie Sale Grab a bucket of popcorn and stake out your spot on the couch…summer’s greatest movie sale starts now! Featuring new releases like Jurassic World, Mad Max: Fury Road, Ride Along 2, and Sicario for up to 33% off, the Blockbuster Movie Sale …
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More than 800 members of Google's staff are standing together in a showing against sexism today by appending a single word to their job titles: "Lady." Business Insider has details on the protest, which is happening in response to a ludicrous comment made during Alphabet's shareholder meeting last week, when someone referred to company CFO Ruth Porat as the organization's "lady CFO." The internet immediately exploded in outrage over the sexist remark, and now, one week later, Google's staff has found its own way of responding. According to Business Insider, someone made the title change suggestion to an email group, and it quickly caught on. They launched an inter…
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America has long served as a haven for credit card crooks because it’s only recently that we’ve switched to credit and debit cards that use smart chips (EMV). However, criminals are taking advantage of retailers’ delay in installing card readers that use the technology, and holding sort of a fire sale on stolen credit card numbers. Thieves can use stolen card data in a variety of ways, but Bloomberg Technology reports that one common method has been to take the numbers from stolen cards, create duplicate cards with those numbers, and use them at retailers. This is the type of fraud that has been popular for decades in the United States thanks to our magnetic stripe …
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Usually when someone leaves an exorbitant tip at a restaurant, folks ask things like, “What made them so generous? What’s the heartwarming story behind it?” But one restaurant owner was a bit more practical after a drunk customer left $1,000 on the table for servers, asking instead, “Did he even mean to do that, or will he just want his money back?” It turns out she was right to ask those questions, because he didn’t, and he did. A server at a Thai restaurant in Edgewater, CO received a $1,088 tip from a customer over the weekend and brought it to the owner to put in a tip jar that’s split up among the staff, the Denver Post reports. At first, it was all excitement and…
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Crypt38 ransomware had a short life, is already defeated A new ransomware family called Crypt38 uses a simple encryption routine that allowed Fortinet researchers to reverse engineer the process and find a method of unlocking files. Named Crypt38 because it appends the .crypt38 extension to all encrypted files, this ransomware's infection method is currently unknown. What we know is that the ransomware seems to be targeting only Russian users at the moment, and based on the simplistic encryption routine and low ransom demand, it may be in the testing phase, and users might get to see a much more powerful version in the upcoming future. Crypt38 ransomware o…
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This post was authored by Ned Pyle, Principal Program Manager, Windows Server Why should you care about clustered storage? Everyone’s talking about apps, mobile, DevOps, containers, platforms. That’s cutting edge stuff in the IT world. Storage is boring, right? Well, they’re all wrong. Storage is the key. You care about storage because it contains the only irreplaceable part of your IT environment: your data. That data is what makes your company run, what makes the money, what keeps the lights on. And that data usage is ever increasing. Your datacenter could burn to the ground, all your servers could flood, your network could be shut down by a malicious attac…
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Hello Windows Insiders! Holy NinjaCats, you guys are rocking this bug bash. We promised an exciting few weeks and we weren’t kidding. You all ready for the second batch of builds for the week to keep the Bug Bash fresh? Today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14367 for PC and Mobile today to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring! IMPORTANT: Today, we have pushed a few builds out to into our internal rings and as a result of that, this build for PC is a little bit behind in rolling out within the queue to the Fast ring and should be available in the next few hours depending on your region. UPDATE 7:15PM Pacific – PC Build 14367 has begun rolling out. …
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Beginning today the FXNOW app for Windows 10 is available to download for free from the Windows Store onto all Windows 10 devices. Built for Windows 10, the FXNOW app features Cortana integration, allowing you to launch the app with your voice, as well as Live Tiles, which if pinned to your Start menu highlights the featured show of the day and an adaptive responsive layout which means the app will scale and adapt no matter your screen size. FXNOW is an on-demand video streaming service for your Windows 10 PCs and Tablets and Phones that features critically acclaimed drama and comedy TV series, and blockbuster movies from three networks: FX, FXX, and FXM. Enjoy wat…
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Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (June 16, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player when installed on all supported editions of Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows 10. Continue reading...
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It should be clear at this point that Microsoft really, really wants you to upgrade to Windows 10. While many users might still be scrambling for ways to preserve their install of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, the company is now offering up a new tool to ensure that making the jump goes as smoothly as possible. In May, a moderator on the Microsoft Answers forum asked users whether they were looking for a “simple and easy way to start fresh with a clean installation of Windows.” The mod went on to note that such a tool was in the final stages of development, and reiterated how “easy” it would make the process. The post ends with the suggestion that Microsoft would turn t…
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Let’s face it: Windows 10 isn’t a perfect OS. Like any operating system, it has some problems. Some problems can be easily ignored or worked around, and others are a dealbreaker. Some users are reporting just such a problem in the form a flashing or flickering screen in Windows 10. This leaves them unable to do anything while it’s happening, and is just a huge annoyance. But fear not, because we’ll show you how to fix the problem for good! No more restarting every time in hopes that it goes away. First, you’ll need to run msconfig, a useful Windows utility that lets you change your startup functions and disable services running in Windows. To launch it, you can just…
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A hacker who sent more than 27 million spam messages to Facebook users has been sentenced to 30 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $310,000 in fines. Sanford Wallace, who promoted himself as the "Spam King," compromised more than 500,000 Facebook accounts between November 2008 and March 2009, sending users links to external websites that harvested their log-in credentials and friend lists. Wallace then spammed these users with links to other websites, earning money by directing traffic their way. The spam king's career started in the '90s by sending junk fax messages Wallace's spamming career didn't begin with Facebook messages, but stretches all the wa…
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While banks and credit card issuers are slowly rolling out new debit and credit cards containing microchips intended to make them less susceptible to fraud, Home Depot says in a recently filed lawsuit that the two largest card networks have colluded with the banks to produce cards that are not as secure as they should be. Having been burned by a massive breach of its payment system in 2014, Home Depot was one of the first national retailers to deploy point-of-sale card processors that accept so-called EMV cards. Even though variations of these cards have been in use in other parts of the world for more than a decade, they are only hitting the wide U.S. market now, a…
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For me Windows 10 has been running pretty smooth in the stable Current Branch (CB) release, aka Windows 10 Version 1511 (Build 10586.xxx), and yesterday when the June cumulative update arrived I went ahead and started that install on all of my CB devices. That is exactly what I do each month without issue however, for some reason one of my desktops decided it did not like this months cumulative update and this update kept failing. So after a few attempts last night and then again this morning I decided to jump into the troubleshooting process. That sent me on a search for how to reset Windows Update and get a clean start. I suspected that I might have a corrupted do…
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It’s been a busy few months for the Windows Store. We’ve welcomed all new apps built on the Universal Windows Platform from Bank of America, Facebook and Instagram. We’ve also seen big name Xbox titles come to the Windows Store like Gears of War: Ultimate Edition for Windows 10, Quantum Break and Killer Instinct: Season 3. And we unveiled some great updates and content at E3 this week, but we’re far from done! We’re excited to announce great new content coming to the Store beginning rolling out today including apps from Expedia, MyUSPS, and The Weather Channel. Here’s a look at some recent additions to the Windows Store. Apps The Expedia app for all your Windo…
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Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (June 14, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Edge. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Microsoft Edge. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. Customers whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users with administrative user rights. Continue reading...
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Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (June 14, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Continue reading...
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Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (June 14, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in the JScript and VBScript scripting engines in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user visits a specially crafted website. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could take control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new acco…
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Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (June 14, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if the Web Proxy Auto Discovery (WPAD) protocol falls back to a vulnerable proxy discovery process on a target system. Continue reading...
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Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (June 14, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The more severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted .pdf file. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerabilities could cause arbitrary code to execute in the context of the current user. However, an attacker would have no way to force a user to open a specially crafted .pdf file. Continue reading...
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Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (June 14, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a vulnerability in Active Directory. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if an authenticated attacker creates multiple machine accounts. To exploit the vulnerability an attacker must have an account that has privileges to join machines to the domain. Continue reading...
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Hello Windows Insiders! WOW, what a week. You all were on fire last week with the all of the feedback for the double dose of PC + Mobile. I also appreciated you sharing your career/business goals with me this weekend. This is why we build Windows—to enable those goals to happen. Thank you! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14366 for PC and Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 14364 to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring! We’re in the process of getting the Mobile build pushed out – I’ll update this blog post once we confirm it is live. The team is now laser focused on getting ready to ship the Windows 10 Anniversary Update to customers thi…
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Besides ransomware, RAA also drops the Pony infostealer A new ransomware family called RAA uses only JavaScript code to infect computers and encrypt their data. RAA is not the first JS-based ransomware piece, but it is the first that relies 100 percent on JavaScript to infect computers. In January, Emsisoft security researcher Fabian Wosar discovered Ransom32, the first ransomware family written in JavaScript, but Ransom32 was only coded in Node.js, and crooks still distributed it as an executable. On the other hand, RAA is delivered as a .js file. Crooks attach this file to spam email, disguising it to look like an Office document. Some users might downl…
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Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (June 14, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if a user opens a specially crafted document or visits a specially crafted website. Continue reading...
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Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (June 14, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker with access to a domain controller (DC) on a target network runs a specially crafted application to establish a secure channel to the DC as a replica domain controller. Continue reading...