Time to upgrade! Windows 8.1 security updates will stop in January

Time to upgrade! Windows 8.1 security updates will stop…

November 29, 2022
by RJ Hamster

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Time to upgrade! Your Windows 8.1 security updates will stop in January

The slightly less bad version of the worst version of Windows since the last really bad version of Windows is finally being put to rest.

Meta contractors fired for selling access to accounts

Contractors for the company formerly known as Facebook were found to be using their privileged access to help criminals take over people’s accounts.

Pachyderm password plundering prevented

Researcher Gareth Heyes found a cunning way to steal passwords from the Mastodon instance favored by computer security professionals moving there from Twitter.

Encrypted DMs may be coming to Twitter (assuming it survives the weekend)

Your favorite Internet trash fire may soon become an end-to-end encrypted trash fire.

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Time to upgrade! Windows 8.1 security updates will stop in January

Time to upgrade! Windows 8.1 security updates will stop…

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