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50000 Members!
50,000 members worldwide! Incredible.
This is a huge milestone and one that the team doesn't take for granted.
Thank you thank you thank you to everyone on our little slice of the internet.
Thank you for your candor.
Thank you for your willingness to engage
Thank you for helping others.
Thank you for making this community so special.
Believe it or not, the Webroot Community is quickly approaching its 7th year and we’re really excited for what's to come in 2019.
Thanks again for everything that you do and see you around the community.
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Password Constraints and Their Unintended Security Consequences
You’re probably familiar with some of the most common requirements for creating passwords. A mix of upper and lowercase letters is a simple example. These are known as password constraints. They’re rules for how you must construct a password. If your password must be at least eight characters long, contain lower case, uppercase, numbers and symbol characters, then you have one length, and four character set constraints.
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Product Update: PC Agent Version 9.0.24.28
- Added
- Support for ELAM (Early Launch AntiMalware) Driver
- Registry value to log agent command status to WRlog
- Support for future Windows 10 update
- Refactored code in parts of UI
- Fixed
- Case where WRSVC is set to "Take no action" under recovery in service properties
- False Positive Detection on Storage Craft backup program
- Issue in 9.0.23.32 where applications accessed through a network share drive become slow or unresponsive
- Under certain conditions, WSA will delete files when th logged in user does not have permission to do so
- Add mandatory upgrade field to SecurityProductionInformation.ini as per Microsoft requirement
- User Access Control prompt appearance after updating
- Improved management of Windows resources
- GDI issues that resulted in screen tearing
- Case where Web Threat Shield plugin does not get loaded on WSA install
- In certain circumstances, an error response from Webroot cloud can cause communciations to stop until a reboot is performed
- Case where shutting down Webroot Secure Anywhere in a cery short space of time after starting it causes shutdown to fail
- Windows Time format changed after threat detected by learning scan at installation
- Case where WSA did not always install on Windows XP
- Ensure complete removal during un-install
- Copyright year in WRusrl.dll is now correct
- Reliability of registry scanning
- Issue when uninstalling Webroot Secure Anywhere, DNS Protection is not uninstalled
- Mismatched MD5 report can be produced
- A zero length file is produced when WSA creates a crash dump
- Case where Restore from Quarantine fails
- Webroot Secure Anywhere does not always shutdown correctly
Hidden Costs of IoT Vulnerabilities
IoT devices have become part of our work and personal lives. Unfortunately, building security into these devices was largely an afterthought.
Another day, another hack. Whether it's a baby monitor used to spy on mother and child, or an FBI warning to reset home wireless routers due to Russian intrusion, the question continues to be: What's next?
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