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Microsoft Confirms Serious Windows Update Warning

May 12, 2022 by Miles Silk Jr

Microsoft disclosed the new threat as part of its May 2022 ‘Patch Tuesday’ update, which contains fixes for 75 flaws across its products and platforms, including three zero-day vulnerabilities (1,2,3). Of the three, the big news is CVE-2022-26925, which has been actively exploited and impacts every Windows Version, from old Windows 7, all the way to the new, Windows 11 and all Windows Server versions.

As it stands, Microsoft is limiting information about the zero-day and has only described it, in general, and confirmed it has been exploited in the wild: “Publicly Disclosed: Yes. Exploited: Yes. Latest Software Release: Exploitation Detected.”

The big piece to understand about CVE-2022-26925 is it has the ability to allow hackers to gain elevated privileges(Admin privileges) right up to the identity of a domain controller. This is the “Holy Grail” for hackers because it gives them the right to perform any action on your PC. In isolation, Microsoft has assigned the flaw as carrying a CVSS severity rating of 8.1/10, but this can rise to 9.8/10 when used in conjunction to attack other computers and servers on a network.

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QuickBooks v2022 will only be available by Subscription

October 26, 2021 by Miles Silk Jr

Intuit announced a massive change to its Desktop Software.  Starting October 12, 2021, users are no longer able to purchase the licensed software for QuickBooks Desktop Pro, Premier, Enterprise, or Mac.

Intuit has moved to a subscription-only model starting with the 2022 version.  This Doesn’t come as a surprise as intuit has been using the subscription model for payroll and online versions for a long time now. Users of 2019 or 2020 must convert to a subscription basis to have continued access to the data.

The following QuickBooks Desktop licenses will remain unchanged until support is ended:

  • 2021 will be supported through May 2024
  • 2020 will be supported through May 2023
  • 2019 will be supported through May 2022

The Good news – the subscription model will be faster, have unlimited customer support and data recovery, and will stay updated with the latest features and products.

Other news – it will likely cost more.  Intuit already states that “A periodic price increase enables Intuit to constantly reinvest in the ecosystem of products to deliver more value for businesses”.

The bad news – If you cancel your subscription You will NO  longer have access to the software and will only be able to open your company files on a machine with an active license.

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