Surviving college distance learning during the pandemic: a cybersecurity guide

Social distancing, the wearing of face masks, practicing hand hygiene, and disinfecting often-touched surfaces have become human necessities during the pandemic era. For schools, theyve also had to adapt quickly to incorporate distance learning methods that let students continue their studies. Bu...

Samsung, Crucial’s Flawed Storage Drive Encryption Leaves Data Exposed

Self-encrypting solid-state storage drives from Samsung and Crucial are open to tampering that would allow an attacker with physical access to harvest their data without knowing the user’s password, researchers have discovered. Researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands found that it’s...

Partnering with the industry to minimize false positives

Every day, antivirus capabilities in Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Windows Defender ATP protect millions of customers from threats. To effectively scale protection, Windows Defender ATP uses intelligent systems that combine multiple layers of machine learning models, behavior-based...