Microsoft has resolved security problems in Microsoft Teams that could have been used in an attack chain to take over user accounts — all with the help of a .GIF file.  On Monday, cybersecurity researchers from CyberArk said a subdomain takeover vulnerability, combined with a malicious .GIF file, could be used to “scrape a user’s […] More

Google Chrome 81, initially planned for March 17 but delayed due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, is finally out. Today’s release was supposed to be a bulky update, but only two major features made the cut — such as improved support for WebXR (Chrome’s Augmented Reality feature, initially released in Chrome 79) and initial […] More

Vaishnav K Suresh / 500px / Getty Images After multiple delays, Microsoft has finally begun rolling out a preview of its controversial Recall feature for testing by members of the Windows Insider Program. The feature, which promises a “photographic memory” for Windows 11 PCs, was originally announced as part of the rollout of the new […] More

The Washington Post/Getty Images You can’t say Linux creator Linus Torvalds didn’t give the kernel developers fair warning.  He’d told them: “The upcoming merge window for 6.17 is going to be slightly chaotic for me. I have multiple family events this August (a wedding and a big birthday), and with said family being spread not […] More

Kaspersky With the US ban of Kaspersky security software, customers were supposed to be informed that they would automatically be migrated to a different antivirus product. If so, some of them clearly didn’t get the memo. In a series of social media posts spotted by TechCrunch, several Kaspersky users said they were unaware that this […] More