A clever hack revives Windows 98 on a locked‑down internet appliance, but it's not what you'd call a practical PC.

Update, Nov. 09, 2024: This story, originally published Nov. 06, now includes details of gamer numbers using Windows 11. Way back in the mists of time when I played games on my Amiga with pirated ...

Microsoft is warning against a simple hack that enables those still using Windows XP to receive security updates through 2019. The trick involves modifying the system registry, a process that is ...

Try as it may, Microsoft doesn’t always manage to get security patching right the first time. Sometimes, external researchers looking at patching one vulnerability find another that emerges from the ...

In a Monday blog post, Eric Ligman, global partner experience lead in Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Group, said his now-infamous blog post titled "Regardless of what any hack says, a Windows 7 upgrade ...

Zero-Day Windows Bug Linked to North Korean Hacking Group Lazarus Security researchers say the previously unknown Windows vulnerability was exploited by the notorious hacking group, potentially giving ...

All a hacker could want A simple Windows security hack which was discovered a year ago is still unpatched. Discovered by Sebastián Castro, a security researcher for CSL, the technique… All a hacker ...

On the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024, contestants demoed 19 zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows 11, Tesla, Ubuntu Linux and other devices and software to win $732,500 and a Tesla Model 3 car.

Recently Microsoft introduced a new Windows 11 feature called “Recall,” which aims to enhance user convenience by capturing frequent screenshots of user activity. While this feature is designed to ...

Password guessing is hard work. Why not just sniff credentials off the wire as users log in to a server and then replay them to gain access? If an attacker is able to eavesdrop on Windows login ...

I’ve put the Windows 7 beta through its paces, and mostly have been impressed. But I also found several problems with it, including hard disks that appear to vanish and turn into phantoms. Here are ...