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Microsoft has been rethinking its commitment to Windows for a while now, with Insider builds of the operating system showing a swing away from web-based user experiences and back to native code. That ...

Running a dev station, gaming rig, and home server on the same machine is a lot easier than you think ...

It’s always cool to work with a command prompt, batch file, etc. I still love doing a lot of work with command prompts and automating things with batch files. In this article, I will list you WMI ...

The poisoned versions, "axios@1.14.1" and "axios@0.30.4," made it onto the npm registry before being yanked, though not before some unlucky devs and CI pipelines pulled them in. Rather than tampering ...

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has told all federal civilian agencies to patch a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in a Cisco firewall product, as ...

A fake CAPTCHA scam is tricking Windows users into running PowerShell commands that install StealC malware and steal passwords, crypto wallets, and more. A new social engineering campaign is abusing ...

Threat actors are now abusing DNS queries as part of ClickFix social engineering attacks to deliver malware, making this the first known use of DNS as a channel in these campaigns. ClickFix attacks ...

Microsoft PowerShell is a trusted tool for many information technology (IT) professionals managing Internet Information Services (IIS) web server farms with dozens or even hundreds of app pools. With ...

Researchers at Huntress Security have published data on the exploitation of a critical SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) vulnerability, revealing how in at least three known incidents, attackers ...

In January 2026, Microsoft Defender Experts identified a new evolution in the ongoing ClickFix campaign. This updated tactic deliberately crashes victims’ browsers and then attempts to lure users into ...

If you’re confident with coding, you may find it easier to install Windows patches with PowerShell than to use Microsoft’s system. With PowerShell, you can remotely manage updates across multiple ...