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Microsoft patches 622 CVEs: Active SharePoint and AD FS zero-days demand first action

Microsoft Patch Tuesday July 2026 delivers 622 CVEs, the largest release in company history, with two exploited zero-days in ...
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July Patch RoguePlanet Tuesday Kills Windows Kerberos RC4 Rollback: Service Accounts Face No-Recovery Deadline

Windows administrators face a hard, irreversible deadline in three days: when July 14's cumulative update installs, Microsoft permanently removes the registry key that allowed domain controllers to ...
MacRumors

Warning: Instagram DMs Lose End-to-End Encryption Starting Today

As of today, end-to-end encryption for Instagram direct messages is no longer available. DMs that you send to people on Instagram will no longer feature full encryption, and your conversations are not ...
BGR

You Should Encrypt Your Files Before Uploading Them To The Cloud - Here's Why

Cloud storage is a reliable way to backup important files. Yes, you can always use an external hard drive or SSD, but as long as you're regularly backing up your data, the cloud is an excellent ...
Computerworld

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday release for April is a whopper

Nearly every major product family needs immediate patching, from Windows to Office to Microsoft Edge, SQL Server, and even Microsoft Developer Tools. Windows admins are going to be busy this month, ...
Seeking Alpha

Cipher Digital's $9B Pivot To AI Infrastructure Is Still Undervalued

Cipher Digital is transforming from a Bitcoin miner to a large-scale AI infrastructure provider, securing $9.3B in long-term contracts with AWS and Google/FluidStack. CIFR's flagship Black Pearl and ...
Wired

The Danger Behind Meta Killing End-to-End Encryption for Instagram DMs

Meta blamed users for not opting into the privacy-protecting feature. Experts fear the move could be the first major domino to fall for end-to-end encryption tech worldwide. Crucially, few companies ...
The New York Times

Turing Award Goes to Inventors of Quantum Cryptography

In the 1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard created a new kind of encryption that would be impregnable. By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the ...
Quanta Magazine

Quantum Cryptography Pioneers Win Turing Award

One afternoon in October 1979, Gilles Brassard was swimming outside a beachfront hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, when a stranger swam up to him and changed the course of his career. Without so much as ...
Engadget

Meta is killing end-to-end encryption in Instagram DMs

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Meta is killing end-to-end encryption in Instagram DMs. The feature will "no longer be supported after May 8, 2026," the company wrote in an ...
MacRumors

Apple Begins Testing End-to-End Encryption for RCS Messages in iOS 26.4 Beta

Apple is testing secure messaging between Android and iOS devices with iOS 26.4, iPadOS 26.4, and macOS Tahoe 26.4. The updates introduce end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages, a security ...