We’ve covered Microsoft’s past few Patch Tuesday updates, as they’ve recently included some important security fixes. The company’s October update is no exception, including fixes for 118 security vulnerabilities for Windows. According to The Hacker News, 113 of these flaws and rated as “Important,” while two are labeled “Moderate,” and three as “Critical.” While all flaws are important to patch, …

Copilot is Microsoft’s AI platform, available to both consumers and companies through a subscription to Microsoft 365. But while there are benefits to the company’s artificial intelligence features, there are also risks: As it turns out, a skilled hacker could turn Copilot into, what Wired calls, an “automated phishing machine.” Wired reports that security researcher Michael Bargury has discovered five …

Microsoft and Delta are not getting along. Following last month’s giant CrowdStrike outage, Delta struggled to get its flight schedules back to normal, and says the issue cost the airline $500 million. CrowdStrike objected to the criticisms, saying Delta failed to accept “offers of help” to recover from the outage. One of those sources of help appears to be Microsoft, …

It’s common cybersecurity advice to use a strong and unique password for each of your accounts. But keeping tabs on those many passwords is impossible if you try to keep them all memorized. While you might be tempted to jot them all down in a Word document, there’s a much better method we all should be using: password managers. What …

In the very recent past, if you wanted to remove the background of a picture, you had to master expensive editing software like Photoshop. No longer: Your iPhone is perfectly capable of isolating a subject in any of your photos, with zero technical knowledge necessary. You just need to know which options to choose. There are a couple ways you …

If you read enough news stories about hackers and cyberattacks, you probably notice one term popping up again and again: “the dark web.” Reports make the dark web sound like a lawless corner of the internet, and, in many ways, it is. But, at the same time, it’s also a very misunderstood part of the web. The different layers of …