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  1. Microsoft Recall: The Future of AI-Powered Desktop Memory and Privacy Concerns

    Stirring up both anticipation and heated debate, Microsoft’s Recall feature is finally emerging from its long preview, heading toward general availability on select Copilot+ Windows 11 PCs. For months, Recall’s headlines have oscillated between two extremes: hailing it as one of the boldest...
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  2. How MirrorFace Exploits Windows Sandbox for Cyber Espionage: Threat Insights & Defense Strategies

    The cybersecurity community has been jolted into attention by the latest findings from Japan’s National Police Agency (NPA) and the National center of Incident readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC), who have jointly sounded the alarm about a particularly sleek campaign from the...
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  3. Securing Windows: How to Harden NTLM Authentication and Protect Your Credentials in 2025

    If you’ve ever wondered whether the relics of IT’s past can come back to haunt you, look no further than NTLM authentication—a sort of ancient curse that’s less Indiana Jones and more Office Space. Windows still ships with this timeworn authentication protocol enabled by default. While it was a...
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  4. Windows 11 Update KB5055523: Unexplained inetpub Folder Emerges

    Windows 11 continues to surprise its users. The latest April 2025 cumulative update—KB5055523—has introduced an unexpected twist: the creation of an empty "inetpub" folder in the root of the C: drive, even on systems where Internet Information Services (IIS) is not installed. While the folder’s...
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