cybersecurity

Microsoft has discontinued Microsoft Easy Fix, formerly Microsoft Fix it, and now directs Windows 10 and Windows 11 users to built-in troubleshooters, the Windows 11 Settings app, the Get Help app, and regular Windows updates for diagnosis and repair of common PC problems. The change is easy to...

A Windows XP Service Pack 3 virtual machine placed directly on the public Internet with its firewall disabled was reportedly compromised within about 10 minutes in Eric Parker’s experiment, acquiring Trojan processes, a rogue FTP service, DNS tampering, and unauthorized user accounts. The stunt...

Microsofts neuer Fünfjahres-Deal mit Stellantis ist mehr als nur ein weiterer Cloud-Vertrag. Er zeigt, wie ernst es klassische Autobauer inzwischen mit der KI-Transformation meinen — und wie stark Big Tech dabei zum strategischen Partner der Industrie wird. Für Microsoft ist die Kooperation ein...

Microsoft’s new five-year collaboration with Stellantis is more than another enterprise software win. It is a clear signal that AI, cloud migration, and cybersecurity are becoming deeply embedded in the operating model of global manufacturers, not just in their customer-facing apps. For...

Stellantis’ new five-year collaboration with Microsoft is more than another automotive AI headline. It is a sign that the race to modernize carmakers has moved far beyond in-car assistants and factory dashboards and into the deeper plumbing of cybersecurity, engineering, and enterprise...

Stellantis’ new five-year collaboration with Microsoft is more than another automotive AI headline. It is a signal that software-defined vehicles, connected services, and cyber defense are now being treated as core industrial capabilities rather than nice-to-have experiments. The companies say...

Stellantis is making a deliberate bet that software, data, and AI will now shape the car company as much as engines and manufacturing ever did. Its five-year strategic collaboration with Microsoft, announced on April 16, 2026, is framed as a broad digital transformation push spanning employee...

Stellantis is making its clearest bet yet that AI is no longer a side project but a core operating system for a modern automaker. The five-year partnership with Microsoft, announced on April 16, 2026, stretches from employee productivity and cybersecurity to customer-facing vehicle insights and...

The 2026 IT certification market is being reshaped by one big force: employers no longer want broad familiarity, they want proof that candidates can deliver in production. Across generative AI, cloud, cybersecurity, data, DevOps, and project management, the highest-value credentials are now...

A convincing fake Windows 11 24H2 update campaign is a reminder that the most dangerous software trick in 2026 may be the one that looks the most routine. The lure, according to the material surfaced in the file search results, uses a lookalike Microsoft support page, a believable...

CVE-2026-33416 is a reminder that mature image libraries can still hide dangerous memory-safety bugs in code paths that look deceptively routine. Microsoft’s update guide frames the flaw as a use-after-free in libpng with high availability impact, and the PNG Project says the bug affects...

A convincing fake Windows 11 24H2 update is making the rounds, and the danger is not a broken patch or a botched reboot. It is a malicious installer disguised as a Microsoft download page, built to steal passwords, browser sessions, payment data, and other sensitive information from unwary...

Something is changing in the Windows migration story, and Google is making sure it changes in its favor. As Microsoft’s Windows 10 support sunset has pushed millions of older PCs into an uncomfortable security and upgrade decision, Google is offering a free path to ChromeOS Flex for machines...

If you are still running Windows 10 in 2026, the real story is no longer whether the operating system is “good enough” for daily use. The question is whether you are willing to accept a shrinking safety margin, a growing compatibility tax, and a maintenance burden that will only get worse over...

Digital sovereignty is no longer a niche policy topic reserved for regulators and procurement teams. In 2026, it has become a core operating principle for governments, critical infrastructure providers, and enterprises that need to balance security, compliance, continuity, and AI-driven...

Greenlane’s SOC 2 Type 2 milestone is more than a procurement checkbox for the commercial EV charging sector. It signals that the company is trying to sell something fleet operators have increasingly demanded from every infrastructure partner: not just uptime and power, but verifiable...

Schneider Electric has disclosed a high‑impact use of hard‑coded credentials vulnerability in EcoStruxure IT Data Center Expert (DCE) that — when a rarely enabled feature (SOCKS Proxy) is turned on and an attacker already possesses administrator and PostgreSQL credentials — could lead to...

Microsoft’s security team has raised the alarm on a subtle but effective evolution of the long-running ClickFix social‑engineering scam: attackers are now tricking victims into opening Windows Terminal and pasting encoded commands directly into it, which in multiple observed chains results in...

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The macidn/punycode bug tracked as CVE-2024-6874 is real, but the short answer to the question is: Microsoft’s public attestation names Azure Linux as the product that includes the affected upstream component, but that attestation is an inventory statement — not proof that no other Microsoft...