cybersecurity risk

Microsoft said Windows XP support would end on April 8, 2014, and initially paired that deadline with the removal of Microsoft Security Essentials for XP downloads, before later extending antimalware engine and signature updates for existing XP users until July 14, 2015. The distinction mattered...

Microsoft ended regular support for Windows 7 on January 14, 2020, after more than a decade of service, leaving ordinary users without free security updates, technical support, or routine fixes for one of the most beloved versions of Windows. The move was not sudden, and it was not merely a...

An updated pirated release of Assassin’s Creed Origins Gold Edition is reportedly circulating with Windows 11 version 24H2 support, bundling Ubisoft’s official 1.62 game update alongside a new Denuvo-bypass method that uses hypervisor-level techniques to work around compatibility failures in...

Windows 10’s last chapter is now a security management problem, not just a software story Windows 10 did not vanish when support ended, but the risk calculus changed overnight for millions of PCs. The operating system still boots, apps still run, and plenty of households and businesses are...

Microsoft’s countdown for Windows 10 is no longer theoretical: the company’s formal lifecycle calendar closed on October 14, 2025, and millions of households across the UK and around the world now face a clear set of choices — upgrade, buy time, or accept growing cyber risk. This piece examines...

Windows 2000, once the stable backbone of enterprise IT, has turned up in public again — not in a museum, but as the operating system behind a battered ticket terminal on Portugal’s coastline, where a user-mode memory error left the touchscreen frozen and card payments reportedly out of service...