A security researcher has released RoguePlanet, a Windows zero-day exploit leading to local privilege escalation to SYSTEM.

Microsoft has shared more details about the new Windows 11 administrator protection security feature, which is available in preview and uses Windows Hello authentication prompts to block access to ...

Microsoft's June Patch Tuesday fixed a record 206 vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited Windows Defender flaw.

Microsoft has expanded its Windows 11 administrator protection tests, allowing Insiders to enable the security feature from the Windows Security settings. First introduced in October in a preview ...

In the aftermath of the devastating CrowdStrike outage this July, Microsoft vowed to do better even though it insisted that the event was an aberration. Evidently unwilling to take chances (or risk ...

If Windows Defender real-time protection keeps turning on in Windows 11, turn off Tamper Protection, add the app or folder to ...

And it's almost always disabled.

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