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Microsoft today issued four updates to fix at least a dozen security vulnerabilities in its Office software products. All of the updates earned Microsoft’s "critical" label, meaning attackers could exploit the flaws to break into Windows systems with little or no help from users.

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Microsoft is warning users of a flaw in Excel which is already being targeted by hackers. The company has received reports of attacks attempting to exploit the vulnerability via email. In order to launch the attack, users must manually launch the malicious file. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to access the machine with [...]

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Microsoft kicked off the new year by fixing three vulnerabilities on its first regularly scheduled patch day. The most serious flaw affects the way that Windows systems handle storing the data associated with Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) network requests.

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Some reasons why it is sometimes difficult to establish a Remote Desktop session with a remote computer, and some workarounds to these various issues. Ever since the release of Windows XP, one of my favorite features as always been Remote Desktop. In case you’re not familiar with Remote Desktop, it is a built-in Windows feature [...]

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Not long ago, Microsoft was the chief butt of security jokes in the IT world. It’s safe to say that they no longer wear the crown - in fact they’ve moved to being a company often pointed to as ‘getting it right.’ And that’s coming from someone typing this post from his Ubuntu Linux laptop.

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