Monthly Archives: April 2018

Windows Phone users will lose support for their native Microsoft Teams, Yammer, and Skype for Business apps as of next month.        By Mary Jo FoleyApril 23, 2018  (Credit: Microsoft)       How many times can Microsoft show it's done with Windows Phone? The long, drawn-out death of Microsoft's phone platform still isn't over.…

Microsoft has built a lightweight version of Windows 10 called Windows 10 Lean.        By Liam Tung | April 24, 2018  Windows 10 Lean seems to be about 2GB smaller than Windows 10 Pro. Image: Lucan/Twitter/Microsoft       Microsoft's latest skip ahead Windows 10 Insider build has two new hidden features that could suggest it's planning…

A year on from the vulnerabilities being leaked, attackers are still using leaked NSA tools to power new attacks - this time with the newly uncovered PyRoMine.        By Danny Palmer | April 24, 2018 -       A new form of cryptocurrency mining malware uses a leaked NSA-exploit to spread itself to vulnerable Windows machines,…

The startup hopes to deploy a vast network of satellites to live stream Earth.        By Charlie Osborne April 23, 2018 File Photo       EarthNow has secured funding from Bill Gates and other prominent investors to develop and deploy a planet-wide web of satellites. The space imaging startup has closed its first round of…

Windows 10 security won't protect you from tech-support scammers' lies and trickery.     By Liam Tung | April 23, 2018 The 153,000 tech-scam reports Microsoft received in 2017 came from 183 countries. Image: Microsoft       Microsoft says it received 153,000 reports in 2017 from customers who'd come in contact with tech-support scammers via a cold…

Spam appears in users' sent folders even from accounts that haven't been compromised.    By Liam Tung | April 23, 2018 -       Some Gmail users have been surprised to find spam inexplicably in their Sent folders, with the messages continuing to appear even after users changed their passwords. People have been reporting on Gmail's Help Forum…

Microsoft is being urged to rush out a patch for a bug in Internet Explorer that's being used in attacks.        By Liam Tung | April 23, 2018        A well-resourced hacking group is using a previously unknown and unpatched bug in Internet Explorer (IE) to infect Windows PCs with malware. Researchers at Qihoo 360's…

Approaches include a smaller smartphone, an attractively designed minimalist phone, and bringing more sophisticated apps to feature phones.        By Ross Rubin | April 20, 2018      While phones such as Apple's iPhone 8 and Samsung's Galaxy S9 come in large "plus" options, even their standard versions are much larger than some of their early predecessors.…

Fixes for vulnerabilities spread across 20 products and a Solaris patch that addresses the Spectre processor flaw.        By Steve Ranger | April 20, 2018        Oracle has published its critical patch update for April, offering 254 security fixes across 20 product sets. The database giant said customers should install the update as soon as…

The cybercrime economy has "now become a kind of mirror image of contemporary capitalism", says paper.      By Danny Palmer | April 20, 2018       The cyber-criminal economy has hit global revenues of $1.5 billion a year, according a study which shows the vast scale of cyber-crime and how profits are acquired, laundered, spent and reinvested.…