Microsoft Security Bulletins For December 2015
Welcome to this month's overview of the Microsoft December 2015 Patch Day.
Latest Posts
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Mozilla puts the brakes on Firefox OS project
Mozilla announced a moment ago that it made the decision to stop offering "Firefox OS smartphones" to carrier channels.
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Jukedeck: Create unique music for your videos
Jukedeck is a new online service that provides you with the means to create music for your videos in a near effortless way as you don't need to be a composer or
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Firefox Hello is the first system add-on for Firefox
The most recent Nightly versions of the Firefox web browser ship with the first system add-on released for the browser.
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Toggle Data and other settings with Power Toggles for Android
Power Toggles is a free application for Android that provides you with controls to toggle system features and settings, and to add app links and custom links to
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Firefox Profilemaker: modify Firefox settings on the Web
Firefox Profilemaker is an online tool that enables you to make configuration changes to Firefox by exporting those changes either to a Firefox profile or savin
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Google Safe Browsing comes to Android and Google Chrome mobile
Google announced today that it has Safe Browsing protection to "hundreds of millions of Chrome users on Android".
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Microsoft continues aggressive upgrade strategy for Windows 7 and 8.1 systems
It is quite difficult to block the free upgrade offer to Windows 10 on operating system's running Windows 7 or Windows 8.
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Firefox Hello: Contacts to be removed, Tab Sharing on by default
Major changes are coming to Firefox Hello, the built-in video-, audio- and text chat service of the Firefox web browser.
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You can delete games from your Steam library now (but should not)
Most Steam users I know have accumulated an impressive number of games over their account's lifespan which can be attributed more often than not to frequent sal
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How to customize the homescreen of Xiaomi devices
I have to say that I'm very happy with my Xiaomi Mi4c Android phone which I bought in October 2015 after using a Motorola Moto G First Generation for two years
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Mozilla has a revenue share agreement with Pocket
When Mozilla announced the native integration of the "read-it-later" service Pocket in Firefox, rumors that Mozilla must have received money by Pocket for the i
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Mozilla drops Sponsored Tile advertisement in Firefox
Mozilla's VP of Content Services Darren Herrman announced yesterday on the official Mozilla Blog that the organization made the decision to discontinue Sponsore
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Download or stream files hosted on Mega with MegaDownloader
MegaDownloader is a third-party client for the file hosting and sharing service Mega that provides you with options to download files from the service and to st
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Browse the web like you would have done 20 years ago
I'm not sure why anyone would want to go back to the early days of the Internet, but if you do, you can relive that past even more accurately by using an [&hell
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Vivaldi Browser gets silent tabs and Netflix support in latest build
The latest build of the Vivaldi web browser ships with a bunch of improvements that include support to silence websites in the browser with a simple click, and
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Windows 10 usage share continues to rise
Windows 10's usage share continued to climb in November 2015.
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Otter Browser Beta 8 has been released
Otter Browser Beta 8 brings the open source browser one step closer to a final release.
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Google accused of tracking Google Apps for Education students
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a complaint with the FCC yesterday about Google "deceptively tracking students" that participate in Google's Apps
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Who is sitting in the Glass House? Its You!
Online privacy is not an easy concept to explain to the majority of Internet users due to its abstract often near-invisible nature.
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MiTeC Network Scanner: advanced IP, Port, Netbios and SNMP Scanner
MiTeC Network Scanner is a free advanced scanner for the Windows operating system that supports the scanning of IP and Port ranges as well as advanced features
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Tab Groups add-on adds full tab grouping functionality to Firefox
Tab Groups is a brand new add-on for the Firefox web browser that replicates the functionality of Firefox's built-in tab grouping feature.
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Adobe to remove direct Flash download links on January 22, 2016
If you don't use Google Chrome or Microsoft Internet Explorer but require Flash, you need to download and install a version of Flash on your system so that brow
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Mozilla wants to drop Thunderbird
For years, Mozilla developed and maintained not only the Firefox web browser but also the Thunderbird email client.
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TeamViewer 11 ships with a host of new features and improvements
TeamViewer 11 is the latest version of the popular remote desktop application.
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How to find out if a Firefox add-on is signed
How do you know whether a Firefox add-on is signed or not? And what does it mean if it is signed?One could say that you find out as soon as you try […]
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W10Privacy update brings even more privacy options to Windows 10
W10Privacy is without doubt one of the most comprehensive privacy-focused tweaking tools for Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system.
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Add Adware Protection to Windows Defender
Microsoft announced recently that it added additional means of protection against the installation of so-called potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) to Wind
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Firefox's Tracking Protection feature gets a boost soon
Work on Firefox's Tracking Protection feature continues as Mozilla plans to give users more control over the feature by adding tracking groups to the system tha
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Torrent client qBittorrent 3.3 ships with massive list of features
The developers of the popular torrent client qBittorrent have released version 3.
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Pref Helper reveals preference names of Firefox options
Pref Helper is a free add-on for the Firefox web browser that reveals preference names behind Firefox options.
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Change the color of inactive windows in Windows 10
When Microsoft released the retail version of Windows 10, window titlebars supported only the white color.
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All new services in Windows 10, and some service suggestions
Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system, just like previous versions of Windows, comes with a truckload of services preinstalled.
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Fake Chrome apps highlight why automated scans are not enough
While Mozilla is still in the process of setting up add-on signing for its Firefox web browser, Google uses the system already for apps and extensions for its C
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Firefox Electrolysis (multi-process) won't come out this year
Firefox Electrolysis, a new multi-process architecture of the browser also known as e10s, won't see a release in stable Firefox this year.
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Unlock files and folders with DeadLock for Windows
DeadLock is a free program for the Windows operating system that helps you unlock files or folders that you cannot delete, move or rename because Windows claims
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MMCSnapInsView lists all Windows MMC Snap Ins
Depending on how you use your computer, you may come in contact with the Microsoft Management Console on a regular basis, once in a while, or not at all.
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VTS scans Android devices for publicly-known vulnerabilities
Vulnerability Test Suite (VTS) is a free application for Android that scans devices running the operating system for publicly-disclosed vulnerabilities.
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Steam's Exploration Sale is rather uneventful
Whenever there is a sale on Steam, and the number of sales per year increased sharply in recent years, you can be sure that things get quite hectic in the begin
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Google's Star Wars Experience
The new Star Wars movie The Force Awakens will be out in less than a month and the hype surrounding it is already in full swing.
