Microsoft can preach about the evils of clinging to Windows XP all that the company wants, but the desktop operating system market share for November 2013 still shows Windows XP at over 31%, according to NetMarketShare. Windows 7 is the most popular OS, at 46.6%.
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On Friday, security researchers at FireEye identified a new IE zero-day exploit hosted on a hacked U.S. website that is being used for targeted drive-by download attacks. The malware exploiting IE is injected directly into PC memory instead of being written to disk; the campaign has been dubbed Operation Ephemeral Hydra. While the U.S.
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November’s patch Tuesday is coming up this week, and Microsoft’s usual “announcement that doesn’t say an awful lot” is out to help us prepare. What we do know is that the latest TIFF image zero-day vulnerability *isn’t* fixed yet…
Naked Security – Sophos
Do you still have images enabled in Outlook? If so, then right now is a great time to disable pictures since there’s a new Microsoft zero-day vulnerability.
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