Newsletter Archives

• Microsoft’s groundhog — Copilot

  Posted on February 19, 2024 at 02:43 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  PATCH WATCH

  By Susan Bradley

  Will you see it, or won’t you?

  In the United States and Canada, on a day in early February, a certain rodent is observed emerging from its burrow. Based upon an old Pennsylvania Dutch superstition, if the groundhog sees its shadow, it retreats into the ground for six more weeks, signaling that much more wintry weather.

  I feel a bit like this with Microsoft’s release of Copilot — I never know whether a machine is going to see it or not.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.08.0, 2024-02-19).

  Patch Watch Apple Vision Pro, Copilot, CVE-2024-21351, CVE-2024-21410, CVE-2024-21412, CVE-2024-21413, KB5034441, KB5034765, KB5035606, Newsletters, Patch Lady Posts, SmartScreen, Windows Copilot

• How well does IE’s phishing filter work?

  Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:23 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  This will undoubtedly change shortly, but…

  In the past hour I’ve received several messages from people here in Thailand saying that they’re receiving phishing mail from their bank, SCB. The mail instructs people to click  on a link and log in. The link goes to the site new11010scb dot com (no, I’m not going to link to it).

  If you go to that location with either Firefox or Chrome, you get the standard phishing warning message. But if you go there with either IE 9 or IE 10 (on Windows 8), you sail right on through to an ad…

  #Fail IE Smart Screen.

  Windows Patches/Security phishing, Smart Screen, SmartScreen