Ireland’s ransomware crisis continues, a Russian scammer gets sentenced, and more of the week’s top security news.
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Goodbye Internet Explorer—and Good Riddance
Microsoft will finally put the venerated, vulnerability-ridden browser out to pasture, but it’s still got a year to cause some trouble.
Surface Laptop 4 showcases Microsoft’s new approach to PC security
Microsoft is bringing advanced hardware security to more Surface devices with cloud firmware management to help enterprises deploy new PCs quickly.
Ransomware’s Dangerous New Trick: Double-Encrypting Your Data
Even when you pay to get a decryption key, you may find your files are still locked up by another strain of malware.
The Real Cost of Colonial Pipeline’s $5 Million Ransom
Stopping payments would go a long way to stopping ransomware. But the choice is never quite so easy.
DarkSide Hit Colonial Pipeline—and Created an Unholy Mess
As the White House gets involved in the response, the group behind the malware is scrambling.
This ambitious Microsoft project aims to fix cloud computing security
Microsoft Research’s Project Freta aims to find invisible malware running on the cloud.
How phishing attacks spoofing Microsoft are evading security detection
The phishing emails use a Microsoft logo within an HTML table, which is not analyzed by security programs, says Inky.
VPN Hacks Are a Slow-Motion Disaster
Recent spying attacks against Pulse Secure VPN are just the latest example of a long-simmering cybersecurity meltdown.