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

Update, March 31, 2025: This story, originally published March 29, has been updated with an explanation of LOLBINS as well as further technical information regarding the Windows Defender Application ...

If Security Center is turned off or missing, Windows cannot correctly show your protection status in the Windows Security app. This usually means the ...

Vulnerable Driver Blocklist is a security feature under Microsoft's Core Isolation umbrella for Windows. For those unaware about Core Isolation itself, this is a collection of capabilities that ...

Microsoft is enabling runtime integrity safeguards in Windows by default, to prevent tampering and unauthorized changes.

Microsoft patches CVE-2026-20841, a high-severity Windows Notepad flaw that could allow code execution via malicious Markdown ...

Most users are familiar with Windows Defender (the antivirus tool built into Windows Security), which continuously monitors the system for suspicious software activity and also identifies and blocks ...

Last summer's CrowdStrike meltdown caused billions of dollars in damage and exposed some fundamental architectural flaws in the Windows platform. A single flawed update from one vendor was enough to ...

Users could be tricked into running arbitrary code, but the issue was patched last week.