Next-gen IoT botnet Hajime nearly 300K strong

The Hajime botnet is nearly 300,000 strong, making it a latent threat nearly as powerful as the notorious Mirai botnet that devastated high-profile websites last fall, leading some to think the internet had been broken. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab lured devices infected with the Hajime worm to announce themselves to a Kaspersky honeypot, checked out…

Microsoft adds another layer to the Windows 10 patching onion

Microsoft yesterday added another update cycle to Windows 10’s monthly patching, saying that the new collection of non-security-only fixes would give corporate customers the “increased flexibility” they had demanded. On Monday, Michael Niehaus, director of Windows 10 product marketing, announced the new monthly update, saying that the company would initially issue it only to customers…