“Microsoft continues to secretly offer Windows 10 free, and you can see why. Despite new attempts to overhaul Windows upgrades, the platform continues to anger users with poor quality updates and questionable transparency.”
With Patch Tuesday arriving tomorrow, get Windows Automatic Update under control
“December was a remarkable patching month. For those of you who use Windows Update, there were few surprises. (Manual updaters had it rough, though.) If you’ve been following along, you’ve already installed the December updates. Great.”
The NFL Is Cracking Down on VPN Users
“For years VPNs have promoted their services as a way to watch content from outside their home market.”
Microsoft Confirms Windows 10 Privacy Investigation With A $4 Billion Sting
“Windows 10 users have more than just updates that break things and critical security warnings to worry about. There’s also the small matter of user data privacy to consider.”
Google shutting down Xiaomi access to Assistant following Nest Hub picking up strangers’ camera feeds (Update: Xiaomi statement)
“So-called “smart” security cameras have had some pretty dumb security problems recently, but a recent report regarding a Xiaomi camera linked to a Google account is especially disturbing.”
DNS-over-HTTPS causes more problems than it solves, experts say
“The DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protocol is not the privacy panacea that many have been advocating in recent months.”
FBI warns about attacks that bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA)
“The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has sent last month a security advisory to private industry partners about the rising threat of attacks against organizations and their employees that can bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) solutions.”
Read This And Double Check Your Google Calendar Settings
“Google Calendar powers a lot of regular schedules. The desktop, mobile, and even voice-assisted versions are at the center of daily planning and overall productivity. There is a certain expectation that your schedule belongs to you, that it is private.”
‘Unpatchable’ iOS exploit may bring permanent iPhone jailbreak – 9to5Mac
“Jailbreaks have decreased over the last few years. However, last month a mistake by Apple saw a jailbreak for modern iPhones released but it was quickly patched.”
Popular Ad Blockers AdBlock and uBlocker Deemed ‘Fake’
“The team behind AdGuard, a real ad-block extension for browsers, reported in a blog post this week that two popular ad blocking extensions found on the Google Chrome Web Store are, in fact, completely fake, despite being used by millions of users. The two extensions, called AdBlock by AdBlock Inc.”
