Windows 11

After CrowdStrike Crash, Microsoft Mulls New Windows Security Tools
Microsoft is looking to add new security platform features to Windows, including allowing security vendors to operate outside of the OS' kernel to avoid the situation that let a faulty software update ...
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Microsoft Privacy FAIL: Windows 11 Silently Backs Up to OneDrive
Richi Jennings | | Microsoft, Microsoft Account Security, Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Windows, OneDrive, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, Windows, Windows 11
Copying users’ files and deleting some? Even a cartoon hound knows this isn’t fine ...
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Alert: New DLL Variant Used For Malicious Code Execution
Wajahat Raja | | attack prevention, code execution, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity News, dll, Malware, Mitigation Strategies, Network Security, parent process analysis, Privilege Escalation, proof of concept, search order hijacking, system hardening, threat actors, Windows 10, Windows 11, WinSxS folder
Recent research findings have brought to light a new DLL variant pertaining to search order hijacking techniques. As per recent reports, this dynamic link library variant could potentially be used by threat ...

Microsoft Brings Passkey Support to Windows 11
Microsoft, long a proponent of doing away with passwords for authentication, is now supporting passkeys in the latest update to the Windows 11 operating system. The IT giant last year joined Google, ...
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Workstations At Risk: Unveiling the RCE Bug
Wajahat Raja | | Cyber Threats, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Measures, Cybersecurity News, Microsoft, Operating System, patch, Remote Code Execution, Security Research, security vulnerability, software updates, system security, vulnerability assessment, Windows 11, Windows Themes, Zero-day Exploit
Recently, the world was made aware of a major vulnerability lurking within Windows Themes, tagged as CVE-2023-38146. This vulnerability, called ‘ThemeBleed,’ has a high severity rating of 8.8 and has sparked worry ...
Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of September 26, 2022
Andrew Swoboda | | Featured Articles, Intel, Microsoft, sophos, VERT News, Windows, Windows 11, zero-day, Zero-day Vulnerability
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us ...
Hysolate Support for Windows 11
Microsoft rolled out their brand new version of Windows 11 on October 5th to great fanfare. Windows 11 is free for current users of Windows 10, and can be downloaded here. Microsoft ...

Windows 11: Registry Keys, SMB Protocol, and SystemInfo
Windows 11 was released on October 5, 2021. It has several new installation requirements including, most notably, Secure Boot and a Trusted Platform Module. These features can provide a more secure computing ...

Windows 11 Security Scare—MS Nixes Fixes on Older PCs
Richi Jennings | | HVCI, MBEC, Microsoft, MSFT, SB Blogwatch, Windows 11, Windows Update, Yet another Satya macro hero adorns above foolishness
Microsoft Windows 11 won’t auto-update on slightly old PCs. It appears this includes security updates ...
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Why Microsoft’s Hardware Baseline for Windows 11 Is Important
From the 80s through the 90s, Microsoft didn’t take security seriously. They acted as if it was someone else’s job, and companies like Symantec and McAfee came to market and flourished. But, ...