There are plenty of people, for plenty of reasons, who really don’t want to sign into their copy of Windows 11 using a Microsoft account, no matter how seamless an experience this brings to the ...

If you clicked on a fake HBO Max ad on Reddit in the past week, you might have fallen victim to a rising "ClickFix" security threat.

When you think of cyberattacks that compromise your account security, maybe you envisage Microsoft zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in your software, or perhaps a hacker using ...

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At least 11 state-backed hacking groups from North Korea, Iran, Russia, and China have been exploiting a new Windows vulnerability in data theft and cyber espionage zero-day attacks since 2017.

RID Hacking is a serious security threat. It targets Windows 10 and 11 systems. This attack exploits the Relative Identifier (RID) system. RIDs are unique IDs for user accounts. They determine access ...

A teenager allegedly used a VPN to cover his tracks while hacking a US jewelry retailer, but Microsoft knew anyway. Court documents unsealed in the US case against Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual ...

A Hacker's Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID The FBI used a Microsoft device identifier, dubbed GDID, to link a teenager to a hack attributed to Scattered Spider, ...

A hacking campaign took just days to exploit a newly disclosed security vulnerability in Microsoft Windows version of WinRAR, researchers at Check Point have said. The attackers leveraged ...

In a nutshell: Microsoft recently updated Windows Server 2025 with a native NVMe driver that can significantly increase SSD performance. While the new driver is not officially available for consumer ...