Showing posts with label Windows 10 Updates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows 10 Updates. Show all posts

Thursday, 11 February 2016

Microsoft Will Now Provides More Information About Windows 10 Updates



Microsoft will now provide more information about updates for Windows 10. The reason is the customer feedback, so let a spokesman opposite Follower Windows Paul Thurrott know. "To make it easy to create organizations and users to view information on new releases, we have two new pages created will be updated alls changes occur," says Microsoft's Michael Niehaus on a Microsoft blog.

The first page contains the " release notes ". It is in this case to details on every new Windows 10 update, singling out both security- and non-security-related fixes. In addition, a " release information page " with information about current releases as well as a list of all updates that have appeared. Microsoft had to endure a lot of criticism since it first little information about Windows 10 updates, so users do not know what the update did exactly.

Sunday, 2 August 2015

Cisco Warns Of Emails With "Windows 10 Upgrade"


Cyber criminals have seized the launch of Windows 10 to distribute emails that attempt to infect surfers with ransomware. Before warns network giant Cisco . Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users can upgrade to the new Windows version.

And cyber criminals now play in. The emails have the subject line "10 Free Windows Update" and seem to come from update@microsoft.com. The message that the recipient can upgrade to Windows 10. For this, the attached "installer" should be opened. In reality, the e-mail attachment "Win10installer.zip" a variant of the CTB Locker, a known form of ransomware that encrypts files on the computer for ransom.

Then users get 96 hours to pay the ransom in bitcoin, otherwise they lose their files. According to Cisco, the ransomware is now widely distributed. The networking giant also advises users to backup their files and keep these offline, so they can not be attacked by cyber criminals.

Hashes:

SHA256: ec33460954b211f3e65e0d8439b0401c33e104b44f09cae8d7127a2586e33df4 (zip)
aa763c87773c51b75a1e31b16b81dd0de4ff3b742cec79e63e924541ce6327dd (executable)