Microsoft doesn't want customers to upgrade older PCs to Windows 11, but there are workarounds for all but the oldest devices ...

Smart App Control is a security feature in Windows 11 designed to help protect your computer from potentially dangerous or ...

Microsoft Defender Antivirus allows administrators to create exclusions so that specific files, folders, processes, or IP ...

I'm a bigger guy who overpronates, so when my old running shoes finally went flat enough that my feet started hurting (and then my back), I knew exactly what I needed to replace them with. All my ...

AI agents are now running on employee devices, cloud platforms, and across developer workflows. Security teams need to see those agents, govern what they can reach, and contain them when something ...

Microsoft Corp. today unveiled Integrated Security Operations Center in Microsoft Defender as it rebuilds its security operations products around artificial intelligence agents. The service moves ...

Serial Microsoft zero-day leaker NightmareEclipse has found another way to mess with Windows Defender, this time by stopping the antivirus from updating itself. The security researcher, also known as ...

A zero-day proof-of-concept tool that stops Microsoft Defender from installing platform and signature updates by filling all available disk space was published on GitHub on September 19. The tool, ...

For some time now, there have been complaints across various online forums about how the popular VLC Media Player takes several seconds (sometimes half a minute!) to start up. The problem occurs ...

MSNightmare released BigDiskBuster, an open-source PoC that can prevent Microsoft Defender from completing security updates.

The North Korean threat actor known as Jade Sleet has been attributed to the compromise of an India-based "much smaller organization" in the information technology (IT) services industry, once again ...

Microsoft has fixed the bug that made Windows Security wrongly claim Microsoft Defender Antivirus was turned off. According to Windows Latest, the fix comes in Defender platform update 4.18.26080.4, ...