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Windows Zero-day With Bad Patch Gets New Public Exploit Code Back in June, Microsoft released a fix for a vulnerability in the Windows operating system that enabled attackers to increase their permissions to kernel level on a compromised machine. The patch did not stick. The issue, which advanced hackers exploited Read more…

Windows Hello Is Now Being Used By 84% Of Windows 10 Users Microsoft’s Windows Hello biometric, PIN, and hardware authentication system is slowly growing in popularity, according to a new report from Microsoft. For those unaware, Windows Hello allows users to authenticate secure access to their devices, online accounts, web browsers, etc Read more…

New Windows 10 Tool Lets You Group Your Taskbar Shortcuts A new Windows 10 utility called TaskbarGroups lets you group shortcuts on the taskbar so they can easily be launched without taking up a lot of space. Once you pin a group to the taskbar, you can click on the pinned Read more…

Windows 10 Updates Cause CorsairVBusDriver BSOD Crash Loop Microsoft’s December 2020 Windows 10 updates are conflicting with the Corsair Utility Engine software and causing the operating system to go into a BSOD crash loop. After the December 2020 Patch Tuesday updates were released, Windows 10 users began reporting that the Read more…

New Windows Malware May Soon Target Linux, MacOS Devices Newly discovered Windows info-stealing malware linked to an active threat group tracked as AridViper shows signs that it might be used to infect computers running Linux and macOS. The new trojan, dubbed PyMICROPSIA by Unit 42, was discovered while investigating AridViper activity (also tracked as Desert Falcon and APT-C-23), Read more…

Windows 10 To Get A Built-in Command-line Disk Space Analyzer Microsoft is working on a new built-in command-line ‘Disk Usage’ utility that reports how much disk space a folder uses. Over time it is common to run out of storage and not know what programs or files are using all Read more…

Hands On With Windows 10’s Built-In Pktmon Network Monitor With the Windows 10 October 2018 update release, Microsoft had quietly added a built-in command-line network packet sniffer called Pktmon to Windows 10. Since then, Microsoft has added a few more features to the tool that make it much easier to Read more…

Windows 10X Is Arriving Next Year: What We Know So Far In 2019, Microsoft announced Windows 10X, a new version of Windows for dual-screen foldable devices. Microsoft promised that Windows 10X would be simple, sleek and faster than the current generation of Windows. Windows 10 was originally supposed to work Read more…

Windows Kerberos Bronze Bit Attack Gets Public Exploit, Patch Now Proof-of-concept exploit code and full details on a Windows Kerberos security bypass vulnerability have been published earlier this week by Jake Karnes, the NetSPI security consultant and penetration tester who reported the security bug to Microsoft. The security bug tracked as CVE-2020-17049 and patched Read more…