Microsoft’s recent success in blocking in-the-wild attacks is eerily good

Enlarge (credit: Stephen Brashear / Getty Images News) Microsoft engineers have neutralized a series of attacks that took control of targeted computers by exploiting independent vulnerabilities in Word and Windows. Remarkably, the software maker said fixes or partial mitigations for all four security bugs were released before it received private reports of the attacks. Both […]

Blocking Windows 7, 8.1 updates for Kaby Lake, Ryzen chips appears imminent

Enlarge / A Kaby Lake desktop CPU, not that you can tell the difference in a press shot. (credit: Intel) A recently published Knowledge Base article suggests that Microsoft is going to block Windows Updates for owners of the latest Intel and AMD processors if they try to run Windows 7 or 8.1. Last year, […]

‘The senator from Kentucky is now working for Putin’: John McCain slams Rand Paul for blocking Montenegro from joining NATO

Win McNamee/Getty Images Republican Sen. John McCain slammed his GOP colleague, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, on Wednesday after Paul blocked the passage of a treaty that would allow Montenegro to move forward with joining NATO, Defense News’ Joe Gould reported. “The senator from Kentucky is now working for Putin,” McCain said after Paul entered the Senate […]

Erdogan compares German policy of blocking rallies of Turks to Nazis acts

Published time: 5 Mar, 2017 13:19Edited time: 5 Mar, 2017 13:34 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has slammed the German government, saying that its actions aimed at blocking rallies of Turkish nationals in Germany were ‘no different to those of the Nazi period,’ AFP and Reuters report. “Germany, you have no relation whatsoever to democracy […]

Shine pivots from network-level ad blocking, rebrands as Rainbow to focus on verifying quality ads

Nobody likes ads, right? Well, not many people like ads. This is why ad-blocking tools are so popular among internet users, as it gives them access to their usual services, sans the hassle of viewing pesky promotions. But like them or not, advertisements are what pay for many things you enjoy online, be it Facebook […]

Mobile ad blocking firm Shine is rebranding to ‘Rainbow’ and will stop selling ad blocking to carriers

Rainbow Israel-based ad blocking company Shine has spent the last 18 months or so selling in its “nuclear weapon” to thwart off the apparent ad tech threat: a network-level solution that lets mobile carriers block ads at a network level. Recently, Shine had shown signs of softening its somewhat antagonistic approach. Now it’s dropping it altogether. […]

BT nuisance calls: How YOU can use the NEW blocking service in your home

Notorious nuisance call offenders will be blacklisted by the firm and these calls with be automatically diverted to a junk voicemail box to prevent BT’s customers from dealing with the irritating callers. Up to 15 million calls will be blocked a week by the service, according to BT’s data. The service will come as godsend […]