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NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #408 (Tuesday, April 15 2025)
Strands today: Quick menu Need some assistance with NYT Strands today? Today’s theme — “Draft picks” — deliberately sends you off in the wrong direction. Below, we’ve compiled some useful hints for Strands #408, as well as the answers, should it come to that. We’ll start off with some clues, before building up to the full answer for Strands #408,…
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For April, a large ‘dynamic’ Patch Tuesday release – Computerworld
Security and authentication Several updates target core identity and authentication components, particularly lsasrv.dll, ci.dll, and skci.dll. These underpin scenarios involving Windows Hello, PIN logins, and certificate services. Even though labeled low risk, these areas are foundational and demand extra care in testing: Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC): Validate AppID tagging and policy updates post-reboot. LSASS (Local Security Authority Subsystem Service): Test…
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For March’s Patch Tuesday, 57 fixes — and 7 zero-days
For so few patches from Microsoft this month (57), we have seven zero-days to manage (with a “Patch Now” recommendation for Windows) and standard release schedules for Microsoft Office, Microsoft browsers (Edge) and Visual Studio. Adobe is back with a critical update for Reader, but it’s not been paired (at least for now) with a Microsoft patch. To navigate what’s…
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NYT Connections today hints and answers — Tuesday, March 4 (#632)
Looking for clues for today’s Connections answers? The Connections answers on March 4 for puzzle #632 is much harder compared to yesterday’s puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle’s difficulty at 4.3 out of 5. Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today’s answers so you can keep…
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NYT Connections today hints and answers — Tuesday, February 25 (#625)
Looking for clues for today’s Connections answers? The Connections answers on February 25 for puzzle #625 are a bit harder than yesterday’s puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle’s difficulty at 4.5 out of 5. Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today’s answers so you can keep…
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For February’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft rolls out 63 updates – Computerworld
Networking and Remote Desktop services Winsock: Microsoft advises that a multipoint socket (type c_root) is created and employed with the following operations: bind, connect, and listen. The socket should close successfully. DHCP: Create test scenarios to validate Windows DHCP client operations (discover, offer, request, and acknowledgment (ACK)). RDP: Ensure that you can configure Microsoft RRAS servers through netsh commands. ICS: Ensure that Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) can…
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Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Patches Two Actively Exploited Zero-Day Flaws
The monthly report is relatively lightweight, with some mobile updates or fixes that have already been performed server-side and shouldn’t be a concern to admins, said Tyler Reguly, associate director of security R&D at global cybersecurity software and services provider Fortra. Another vulnerability impacts only Microsoft Surface hardware. February update patches two exploited vulnerabilities The two exploited vulnerabilities are: CVE-2025-21391,…
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Microsoft February 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes 4 zero-days, 55 flaws
Today is Microsoft’s February 2025 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 55 flaws, including four zero-day vulnerabilities, with two actively exploited in attacks. This Patch Tuesday also fixes three “Critical” vulnerabilities, all remote code execution vulnerabilities. The number of bugs in each vulnerability category is listed below: 19 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities 2 Security Feature Bypass Vulnerabilities 22…
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NYT Connections today hints and answers — Tuesday, January 28 (#597)
Looking for clues for today’s Connections answers? The Connections answers on January 28 for puzzle #597 are a bit harder than yesterday’s puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle’s difficulty at 3.5 out of 5. Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today’s answers so you can keep…
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2025’s first Patch Tuesday: 159 patches, including several zero-day fixes
Microsoft began 2025 with a hefty patch release this month, addressing eight zero-days with 159 patches for Windows, Microsoft Office and Visual Studio. Both Windows and Microsoft Office have “Patch Now” recommendations (with no browser or Exchange patches) for January. Microsoft also released a significant servicing stack update (SSU) that changes how desktop and server platforms are updated, requiring additional…
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