Google urges Windows 7 users to shift to Windows 10 following discovery of zero-day security flaw

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Google urges Windows 7 users to shift to Windows 10 following discovery of zero-day security flaw

Attacks combining zero-day win32k.sys privilege escalation flaw with 'high severity' Google Chrome spotted in the wild

Users of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system have been urged to upgrade to Windows 10 following the discovery of a zero-day privilege escalation flaw - not by Microsoft, but by Google The flaw, which...

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