The vulnerability is still active on several versions of Windows, but turning off certain system settings may keep you safe. Brendan is a freelance writer and content creator from Portland, OR. He ...

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When a team of hackers believed to be from the US and Israel deployed the Stuxnet worm in 2010 to sabotage centrifuges at an Iranian uranium-enrichment facility in Natanz, one critical vulnerability ...