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In a few weeks, hundreds of hackers will descend on Las Vegas for the Defcon/Black Hat conferences and do their absolute best to never set foot outside of the hotels in the ungodly heat. One of the ...

Here we go again: another Microsoft Windows update, another feature broken as a result. This time it’s VPN access. Here’s ...

If businesses and consumers stuck to security basics, they could have avoided all cases of Conficker worm infection detected on 1.7 million systems by Microsoft researchers in the last half of 2011.

Update, May 11, 2025: This story, originally published May 9, has been updated with more details on the move towards greater cloud Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) transparency by both ...

Some security patches take time. Seven-and-a-half years, in fact, if you count the time it’s taken Microsoft to patch a security issue in its SMB (Server Message Block) service, fixed Tuesday. This ...

Feds say Microsoft security ‘requires an overhaul’ — but will it listen? The Department of Homeland Security is slamming Microsoft for what it calls a ‘cascade’ of avoidable errors that allowed a high ...

It’s the middle of 2022 and it’s a perfect time to review your plans, goals and risks to your network, especially given the changing threat landscape. Ransomware, for example, has become more human ...

Restarting the router is probably the first thing you have done already. If not, you need to restart your router and check if the problem resolves or not. If your router cannot update the security ...

Review: Network Access Protection (NAP) is the term Microsoft uses for a suite of enforcement mechanisms closely tied to endpoint security compliance. Related: NAC: What went wrong? NAP is based on a ...

If you see The network security key isn’t correct error message while trying to connect to a wireless connection on Windows 11, then this post will help you. The ...