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Thanksgiving comes early this year, but the Microsoft Windows 10 October 2018 Update is coming late. Should we be thankful? Let’s revisit the short history of this release, talk about a serious...

Windows 10 users running genuine copies of the Pro edition are being told to swap to Windows 10 Home after what appears to be an issue with Microsoft's activation servers.

Online-note-sharing company Evernote has patched a hole that allowed attackers to infect notes shared via its service.

Difficult-to-implement encryption schemes in self-encrypting drives are likely handled incorrectly, leading to a false sense of security.

A new WinMagic study has found that organisations are largely unprepared for when support of older versions of Microsoft’s Windows OS will be withdrawn in January 2020. When questioned about their...

Microsoft silently patched a bug in its Windows 10 operating system with the October 2018 update (version 1809) that allowed Microsoft Store apps with extensive file system permission to access...

Microsoft Windows built-in anti-malware tool, Windows Defender, has become the very first antivirus software to have the ability to run inside a sandbox environment. Sandboxing is a process that...

Microsoft announced on Friday that Windows Defender, the antivirus application shipped with the company’s operating systems, can now run in a sandbox, and the tech giant claims it’s the first...

Microsoft has made it possible for Windows Defender Antivirus to be run within a sandbox, a restrictive environment that separates the AV’s processes from those of the underlying Windows OS, thus...

Zero-day crash'n'pwn exploit for Microsoft's latest OS disclosed, no official patch available (yet) A skilled Microsoft bug hunter with a penchant for public disclosures via Twitter has openly...