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Russian gang tried to hack US nuclear research labs, and more malware in PyPI Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It's Monday, January 9th, 2023. I'm Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. A Russian-based hacking team targeted three American nuclear research labs last summer. That's according to the Reuters news agency, which said the

A new issue has been acknowledged by Microsoft

Join us in the first edition of Microsoft Weekly for 2023 as we recap all the important Redmond-specific news items from the past few days including new builds, app updates, and Bing on steroids.

Reported back in November, following the month's Patch Tuesday updates, Microsoft has finally released a workaround for the OBDC SQL Server bug, which was causing issues on related applications.

Plus: Patches for Apple iOS 16, Google Chrome, Windows 10, and more.

The final Patch Tuesday of 2022 on Windows 11 22H2 (KB5021255) is apparently causing issues on AMD Ryzen systems per some user reports. These users are reporting random 10-20 second freezes.

Ars Technica reports on a dangerously "wormable" Windows vulnerability that allowed attackers to execute malicious code with no authentication required — a vulnerability that was present "in a much broader range of network protocols, giving attackers more flexibility than they had when exploit...

Our latest edition of Microsoft Weekly covers a quieter week where we learned about a couple more Windows bugs along with a few patches, a fine on Microsoft Bing, and some Teams and Excel updates.

Threat actors affiliated with the Play ransomware strain are leveraging a never-before-seen exploit method that bypasses Microsoft's ProxyNotShell URL rewrite mitigation to gain remote code execution through Outlook Web Access (OWA).  

A set of Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates has impacted users spinning up new VMs on Hyper-V.