Windows 11 has been rolling out to customers all over the world and has received all kinds of interesting updates since it came out. For example, the 22H2 release of Windows 11 (the first major update to the operating system) added tabs to File Explorer, enabled drag-and-drop support for the taskbar, and more. After adding … Read more
A Microsoft employee inadvertently announced that Notepad for Windows 11 will have tabbed windows. The employee, one of the company’s senior product managers, posted an image of a tabbed version of Notepad. He deleted the tweet minutes later, but not before several Twitter accounts found out. The Notepad screenshot includes an internal Microsoft warning: “Do … Read more
Wannacry is an extortion program that in May 2017 carried out perhaps the largest computer attack in the world to date. To achieve this, Wannacry exploited a vulnerability in Windows known as Eternal Blue. Now, security researchers have discovered a new, similar vulnerability (CVE-2022-37958) in Windows that could be used in a similar way, as … Read more
Microsoft security researchers have discovered reports a hybrid botnet, MCCrash, which is a mix between Windows and Linux systems Ars Techinca. The botnet is to be used by hackers to sell targeted overload attacks against various Minecraft servers. MCCrash should be hardcoded to work on Minecraft version 1.12.2, but it should also work for version … Read more