Microsoft's Smart App Control used to be pointless, but it's about to become a lot more usable. Here's what's changing.

For many users, Windows isn't ready to use out of the box, and one of the most frustrating parts isn't the actual install itself, but everything that comes after. Fixing the bad defaults, renaming the ...

Microsoft has patched a vulnerability in the Windows Remote Access Connection Manager (RasMan) service that was being exploited to trigger denial-of-service (DoS) conditions on unpatched systems. If ...

PCWorld highlights Smart App Control, a crucial Windows 11 security feature that screens apps through Microsoft’s cloud service to protect against malware and compromised executables. A February 2026 ...

Threat actors are using a forensic tool's Windows kernel driver to kill security products, despite the fact the driver's digital certificate was revoked more than a decade ago. In a blog post ...

Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 10 last October. Many PCs with Windows 10 don't pass Microsoft's strict requirement check. It's possible to bypass this and ...

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