ISSUE 22.40.1 • 2025-10-09 By Susan Bradley Social media is replete with complaints about how Microsoft shoves feature releases and updates, and reboots computers, at will. It makes me shake my head. It’s as if everyone were thinking they had no control over the process at all. That’s not true. You have ample time to […]

ISSUE 22.38.1 • 2025-09-23 By Susan Bradley For consumers, it’s the end of the road for 23H2, and a deadline looms. After nearly a year of urging you to delay the upgrade to Windows 11 24H2, I’m now giving you the all-clear. Accordingly, I am lowering the MS-DEFCON level to 4. I’m also suggesting a […]

Threat actors likely spoofed the official government website for personal information theft and monetary fraudulent activity.

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Apple this year sent at least four rounds of notifications to French users potentially targeted by commercial spyware.

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ISSUE 22.35.1 • 2025-09-04 By Susan Bradley Despite the headlines and my caution last week about lowering the MS-DEFCON level too far, another wave of patches is right around the corner. Accordingly, I’m raising the MS-DEFCON level to 2. This is not different from any other month’s recommendation — I always suggest deferring patches before […]

ISSUE 22.34.2 • 2025-08-28 By Susan Bradley For quite some time, the AskWoody website has been under a heavy distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. We don’t know the precise reasons why we’ve become a target. From an editorial perspective, it would be nice to discover that we’d ruffled a few feathers and that an evil entity […]

By Susan Bradley Be very careful with updates this month. KB5063878, an August 12 “routine” security update for Windows 11 24H2, seems to have sparked a potentially serious problem. I’ll get into that in a second, but the key takeaway is that I’m not lowering the MS-DEFCON level to 4 or 5, as I usually […]

ISSUE 22.31.1 • 2025-08-07 By Susan Bradley Windows 11 24H2 is a large update that takes some time to install. Don’t do this close to Patch Tuesday. And because new patches are a mere five days away, it’s time to defer everything except critical or emergency patches until I’ve spent the time to understand any […]

ISSUE 22.29.1 • 2025-07-22 By Susan Bradley July has been a cooler weather month than usual for my little corner of California. But I’m still getting the heat — from updates. I’ve been blistered by the number of vulnerabilities that were patched this month, along with some unique bugs that were seen only in the […]

ISSUE 22.26.1 • 2025-07-03 By Susan Bradley There are times when Microsoft drives us crazy, and then there are times when we don’t give Redmond enough credit. This is a time when we probably don’t praise the company enough for doing the right thing. I say this because I recently installed the July Insider preview […]

ISSUE 22.25.2 • 2025-06-25 By Susan Bradley You know I’ve been trying — for months — to find a vendor from which I could purchase Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESUs). I certainly want to make such a purchase for my firm, and perhaps for use on my home PCs. You also know that I’ve […]

ISSUE 22.25.1 • 2025-06-24 By Susan Bradley The June updates are a mixed bag. So far, I have not seen any side effects from this month’s updates. However, I am tracking some other issues that may impact businesses. That’s a problem, because I’m not sure what the root causes or triggers are. I just know […]