Tag: operating system
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Meltdown and Spectre attacks mitigated by operating system updates
We wish all our readers a very happy and very secure 2018! The latter part will not come without some serious work though. We are not even four days into the new year and we have already learned of two major proof-of-concept attacks affecting a very large number of processors, forcing operating system developers to…
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Meltdown and Spectre attacks mitigated by operating system updates
We wish all our readers a very happy and very secure 2018! The latter part will not come without some serious work though. We are not even four days into the new year and we have already learned of two major proof-of-concept attacks affecting a very large number of processors, forcing operating system developers to…
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The case against running Windows XP is more subtle than we think it is
Greater Manchester Police has admitted to the BBC that some 1,500 of its PCs (20% of the total) are still running Windows XP , an operating system that was considered end-of-life more than three years ago. This makes the organization an exception. Not because its systems are still running Windows XP , but because it…
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The case against running Windows XP is more subtle than we think it is
Greater Manchester Police has admitted to the BBC that some 1,500 of its PCs (20% of the total) are still running Windows XP , an operating system that was considered end-of-life more than three years ago. This makes the organization an exception. Not because its systems are still running Windows XP , but because it…
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VB2014 Paper: Attack surface analysis of Tizen devices
Irfan Asrar looks at the security of the operating system used in many IoT devices. Since the close of the VB2014 conference in Seattle in October, we have been sharing VB2014 conference papers as well as video recordings of the presentations. Today, we have added ‘Attack surface analysis of Tizen devices’ by Irfan Asrar, a…
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Should software vendors extend support for their products on Windows XP?
Is Google making the Internet more or less secure by extending support for Chrome on XP? A software vendor’s decision to release updates to its product is generally seen as a good thing, but the decision by Google to continue to support the Chrome browser for Windows XP beyond the operating system’s end-of-life has been…