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From housing economist Tom Lawler: Based on publicly-available local realtor/MLS reports released across the country through today, I project that existing home sales as estimated by the National Association of Realtors ran at a seasonally adjusted annual ra…

Good news: There is none. Well, apart from you can at least fully patch the Microsoft blunder Vid Easy-to-use exploits have emerged online for two high-profile security vulnerabilities, namely the Windows certificate spoofing bug and the Citrix VPN gateway hole. If you haven't taken mitigation steps by now, you're about…

On Monday this week, the big cybersecurity news was speculative. Was there a big, bad security bug in Microsoft Windows waiting to be announced the next day? On Tuesday, the big news was the announcement that everyone had been guessing about. Yes, there was a big bad bug, and it…

GOT CERT VALIDATION? — Attack demoed less than 24 hours after disclosure of bug-breaking certificate validation. Dan Goodin - Jan 16, 2020 12:30 am UTC Enlarge / Chrome on Windows 10 as it Rickrolls the NSA.Less than a day after Microsoft disclosed one of the most critical Windows vulnerabilities ever,…

Threatpost talks to Venafi about the recently-disclosed Microsoft vulnerability and whether the hype around the flaw was warranted. A major Microsoft crypto-spoofing bug impacting Windows 10 made waves this Patch Tuesday, particularly as the flaw was found and reported by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Microsoft’s January Patch Tuesday security bulletin…

15 Jan 2020 on security | windows | cryptography On Monday this week, Brian Krebs broke a story that the NSA had discovered a critical flaw in Microsoft Windows software responsible for core security functions including, among other responsibilities, verifying the identity of other computers on local networks and the…

Patch Tuesday In the first Patch Tuesday of the year, Microsoft finds itself joined by Adobe, Intel, VMware, and SAP in dropping scheduled security updates. This month's Microsoft security fixes include three more remote-code-execution vulnerabilities in Red…