Slashdot Items Tagged "windows"

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Tuesday January 10, 2023 @03:42PM Top Benefits of Upgrading to Energy-Efficient Windows
Sunday December 25, 2022 @01:58PM Critical Windows Code-Execution Vulnerability Undetected until Now
Thursday October 27, 2022 @05:48PM Windows 11 on Older Hardware Just Got Easier
Friday October 21, 2022 @03:30AM Zeek becoming part of Windows
Thursday October 20, 2022 @09:18PM Question: How long does take to lock down Windows 11 privacy?
Monday December 28, 2020 @07:51PM Ars Technica Reviews Leaked Windows 8.1 Update
Wednesday October 21, 2020 @02:48PM Windows Users, Get Ready For a Bigger-Than-Usual Patch Tuesday
Wednesday July 22, 2020 @12:46AM Ransomware Gang Demands $7.5 Million From Argentinian ISP
Sunday June 21, 2020 @01:54AM Should Microsoft Release an Edgebook?
Saturday June 13, 2020 @12:11AM Windows 10's Latest Updates Are Causing Havoc On Printers
Tuesday June 02, 2020 @12:35AM Microsoft Now Credits Maker of Package Manager it 'Copied' -- But Offers No Apology
Tuesday May 26, 2020 @01:20AM Thousands of Enterprise Systems Infected by New Blue Mockingbird Malware Gang
Sunday May 24, 2020 @02:17AM Munich Says It's Now Shifting Back From Microsoft to Open Source Software -- Again
Tuesday May 05, 2020 @02:49PM How Microsoft Fought the 'ILOVEYOU' Virus 20 Years Ago
Monday May 04, 2020 @01:44AM 20 Years Later, Creator of World's First Major Computer Virus Located in Manila
Thursday April 30, 2020 @01:30AM Canon's New Software Will Turn Select EOS, PowerShot Cameras Into Webcams for Windows 10 PCs
Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:23AM Is Microsoft sabotaging Windows 10?
Tuesday March 10, 2020 @02:13PM Microsoft Orchestrates Coordinated Takedown of Necurs Botnet
Wednesday February 19, 2020 @01:33AM Almost Half of Connected Medical Devices Are Vulnerable To Hackers Exploiting BlueKeep
Sunday February 16, 2020 @02:05AM Warning: Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 Security Update After Reports of Serious Bugs
Wednesday February 12, 2020 @03:12PM Data Protection Authority Investigates Avast for Selling Users' Browsing History
Monday February 10, 2020 @06:47PM South Korea's Government Explores Move From Windows To Linux Desktop
Saturday February 08, 2020 @12:05PM Windows 7 bug prevents users from shutting down or rebooting computers
Saturday February 08, 2020 @02:18AM Ransomware Installs Gigabyte Driver To Kill Antivirus Products
Saturday January 04, 2020 @02:04AM Company Shuts Down Because of Ransomware, Leaves 300 Without Jobs Just Before Holidays
Friday December 27, 2019 @02:18PM Ask Slashdot: What Will the 2020s Bring Us?
Tuesday December 24, 2019 @02:32AM The Navy's Flawed Bridge Technology Set the USS McCain Up For Disaster
Thursday December 19, 2019 @02:11PM How Classroom Technology is Holding Students Back
Thursday December 12, 2019 @03:37PM Getting Drivers for Old Hardware Is Harder Than Ever
Thursday December 05, 2019 @02:58AM New Iranian Wiper Discovered In Attacks On Middle Eastern Companies
Sunday November 24, 2019 @02:23PM Microsoft Releases a List of Deprecated Windows 10 Features
Saturday November 09, 2019 @02:15PM Scammers Are Actively Exploiting A Firefox Bug
Monday November 04, 2019 @01:23AM A Widespread BlueKeep 'Exploit' Is Targetting Unpatched Windows 7/XP Computers
Saturday November 02, 2019 @02:10PM US Air Force Inks Deal With Raytheon On Windows 10 Support For ARSE
Monday October 21, 2019 @12:41AM WAV Audio Files Are Now Being Used To Hide Malicious Code
Thursday September 19, 2019 @11:43PM World's Most Destructive Botnet Returns With Stolen Passwords and Email In Tow
Friday September 06, 2019 @03:21PM Metasploit Team Releases Weaponized BlueKeep Exploit
Thursday August 15, 2019 @01:47AM June Windows Security Patch Broke Many EMF Files
Wednesday August 14, 2019 @12:44AM Vulnerability in Microsoft CTF Protocol Goes Back To Windows XP
Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:50PM Google Discloses 20-Year-Old Unpatched Flaw Affecting All Versions of Windows
Saturday August 03, 2019 @01:04AM GermanWiper Ransomware Hits Germany Hard, Destroys Files, Asks For Ransom
Wednesday July 31, 2019 @01:53AM It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments
Friday July 26, 2019 @12:53AM Louisiana Governor Declares State Emergency After Local Ransomware Outbreak
Friday July 12, 2019 @12:34AM Microsoft Stirs Suspicions By Adding Telemetry Files To Security-Only Update
Tuesday July 02, 2019 @12:27AM Florida City Fires IT Employee After Paying Ransom Demand Last Week
Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:05PM Florida City Pays $600,000 To Ransomware Gang To Have Its Data Back
Saturday June 15, 2019 @01:46AM Avast and AVG Are Causing Firefox Users To Lose Saved Passwords
Monday June 03, 2019 @12:33AM Should Companies Abandon Their Password Expiration Policies?
Saturday June 01, 2019 @02:03AM Microsoft Warns 1 Million Computers Are Still Vulnerable To Major Windows Security Exploit
Friday May 31, 2019 @08:08AM Russian military moves closer to replacing Windows with Astra Linux
Friday May 31, 2019 @12:34AM Most Windows 10 Users Are Running the Update From Over a Year Ago
Friday May 31, 2019 @12:34AM Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform App Dream Is Dead and Buried
Wednesday May 29, 2019 @03:49AM Chinese Military To Replace Windows OS Amid Fears of US Hacking
Tuesday May 28, 2019 @12:32AM In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen NSA Tool Wreaks Havoc
Thursday May 23, 2019 @12:38AM Hackers Are Holding Baltimore's Government Computers Hostage
Friday May 17, 2019 @01:28PM A Large Chunk of Ethereum Clients Remain Unpatched
Wednesday May 15, 2019 @12:47AM Microsoft Patches 'Wormable' Flaw in Windows XP, 7 and Windows 2003
Friday May 03, 2019 @06:30AM Dell Laptops and PCs Vulnerable To Remote Hijacks
Thursday May 02, 2019 @12:42AM Mysterious Hacker Has Been Selling Windows 0-Days To APT Groups For Three Years
Thursday May 02, 2019 @12:41AM Windows Server Hosting Provider Still Down a Week After Ransomware Attack
Wednesday April 17, 2019 @01:28AM Scranos Rootkit Expands Operations From China To the Rest of the World
Monday April 15, 2019 @07:41AM Internet Explorer Exploit Steals Data From Windows Users-- Even If They Never Use Internet Explorer
Friday April 12, 2019 @03:12PM Microsoft Publishes SECCON Framework For Securing Windows 10
Friday April 12, 2019 @07:32AM Microsoft Publishes SECCON Framework for Securing Windows 10
Wednesday April 10, 2019 @12:31AM Windows XP Dies Final Death As Embedded POSReady 2009 Reaches End of Life
Tuesday April 09, 2019 @12:35AM London's BT Tower Broadcasted Windows 7 Error Message Over the Weekend
Monday April 08, 2019 @12:32AM Why Aren't People Abandoning Windows For Linux?
Monday March 25, 2019 @03:18PM Hackers Hijacked ASUS Software Updates To Install Backdoors on Thousands of Computers
Sunday March 24, 2019 @01:46AM Pwn2Own Competitors Crack Tesla, Firefox, Safari, Microsoft Edge, and Windows 10
Monday March 18, 2019 @06:13PM Google, Microsoft Work Together For a Year To Figure Out New Type of Windows Flaw
Sunday March 17, 2019 @03:30AM 19-Year-Old WinRAR Vulnerability Leads To Over 100 Malware Exploits
Tuesday March 05, 2019 @01:35AM Microsoft is Creating Windows Lite For dual-screen and Chromebook-like Devices, Report Says
Tuesday February 26, 2019 @01:44AM Researchers Break Digital Signatures For Most Desktop PDF Viewers
Wednesday February 20, 2019 @03:30PM Microsoft Edge Lets Facebook Run Flash Code Behind Users' Backs
Thursday February 14, 2019 @01:17PM Open Source Project Aims To Make Ubuntu Usable on Arm-Powered Windows Laptops
Wednesday January 23, 2019 @02:23PM More Than Half of PC Applications Installed Worldwide Are Out-of-Date
Tuesday January 22, 2019 @01:33AM New Phobos Ransomware Exploits Weak Security To Hit Targets Around the World
Wednesday December 26, 2018 @04:37AM Microsoft's Emergency Internet Explorer Patch Renders Some Lenovo Laptops Unbootable
Thursday December 13, 2018 @03:51AM Ships Infected With Ransomware, USB Malware, Worms
Friday December 07, 2018 @02:09AM Snapdragon 8cx Gives Windows Its Most Extreme Arm Chip Yet
Thursday November 29, 2018 @01:14PM That Virus Alert on Your Computer? Scammers in India May Be Behind It
Monday November 26, 2018 @01:32AM Ask Slashdot: How Can You Find a Good IT Consultant?
Thursday November 15, 2018 @01:31AM Why is Antivirus Software Still a Thing?
Wednesday November 14, 2018 @01:32AM WannaCry is Still Dominating Ransomware
Monday October 29, 2018 @08:23AM Windows Defender Becomes First Antivirus To Run Inside A Sandbox
Monday October 29, 2018 @01:36AM New Zealand Chooses Google Chromebooks Over Microsoft Windows 10 For Education
Sunday October 21, 2018 @01:15PM Latest Windows 10 Update Has Yet Another File-Managing Issue
Thursday October 18, 2018 @01:22PM Samsung Announces Galaxy Book 2, a 2-in-1 Windows 10 S Hybrid With Gigabit LTE and 20-Hour Battery Life
Saturday October 06, 2018 @01:24PM Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 October Update
Saturday October 06, 2018 @04:40AM Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 October Update (Version 1809)
Friday October 05, 2018 @01:45PM Windows 10 October 2018 Update is Deleting User Data For Many
Sunday September 30, 2018 @11:35AM Windows May Be Storing All Your Email and Docs as Unencrypted Plaintext
Monday September 24, 2018 @02:50PM Despite Outrage From Users, Microsoft Continues To Install Bloatware Applications Onto Every Windows 10 PC
Wednesday September 12, 2018 @12:31AM Windows 10 Will Use the Cloud To Free Up Disk Space
Friday September 07, 2018 @12:21AM Google Investigating Issue With Blurry Fonts on new Chrome 69
Sunday August 12, 2018 @01:43AM World's Largest Chip Maker Will Lose $250M For Not Patching Windows 7 Computers
Monday August 06, 2018 @01:41AM Chip Giant TSMC Struggles With Virus Infections at its Factories
Thursday August 02, 2018 @03:03PM Computerworld: An open letter to Microsoft management re: Windows updating
Wednesday August 01, 2018 @12:56AM Chromebooks Don't Suffer From Bad User Experiences Found on Windows and Mac Computers, Google Says
Wednesday August 01, 2018 @12:52AM SamSam Ransomware Crew Made Nearly $6 Million From Ransom Payments
Friday July 27, 2018 @01:01AM Microsoft Discovers Supply Chain Attack at Unnamed Maker of PDF Software
Friday June 29, 2018 @02:12AM All-Radio 4.27 Portable Can't Be Removed? Then Your PC Is Severely Infected
Thursday June 07, 2018 @01:20PM Emirates Planes Could Be Going Windowless
Wednesday June 06, 2018 @12:48AM Flight-Sim Maker Threatens Legal Action Over Reddit Posts Discussing DRM
Friday June 01, 2018 @12:05AM Dell is Reportedly Working on a Dual-Screen Windows ARM Device
Thursday May 03, 2018 @01:23PM Ask Slashdot: Any Idiosyncrasies of the New Windows 10 April 2018 Update?
Wednesday May 02, 2018 @02:42PM Researcher Finds a Way to Bypass Meltdown Patches on Windows 10
Wednesday May 02, 2018 @01:07PM Google Chrome is Freezing Intermittently With the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, Users Say
Sunday April 29, 2018 @12:23AM Code Published for Triggering a BSOD on Windows Computers -- Even If They're Locked
Saturday April 28, 2018 @10:06AM PoC Code Published for Triggering an Instant BSOD on All Recent Windows Versions
Friday April 27, 2018 @01:14PM Windows 10 April 2018 Update is Coming On April 30
Wednesday April 25, 2018 @02:55PM Microsoft Plans Version of Windows 10 For Devices With Limited Storage
Monday April 16, 2018 @12:35AM Microsoft Windows 10 Gains Linux/WSL Console Copy and Paste Functionality
Friday April 13, 2018 @12:28AM Microsoft Discovers Blocking Bug and Delays the Release of Windows 10 Spring Creators Update
Thursday April 12, 2018 @01:12PM You Think Discovering a Computer Virus Is Hard? Try Naming One
Wednesday April 11, 2018 @01:58PM Microsoft Removes Antivirus Registry Key Check for All Windows Versions
Friday April 06, 2018 @12:34AM Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole In Windows Defender
Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:40AM Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer, and People Are Freaking Out
Monday April 02, 2018 @07:08AM Software Bug Behind Biggest Telephony Outage In US History
Saturday March 31, 2018 @01:43PM Security Experts See Chromebooks as a Closed Ecosystem That Improves Security
Thursday March 29, 2018 @05:21AM Boeing Hit By WannaCry Virus, Fears It Could Cripple Some Jet Production
Wednesday March 28, 2018 @08:43AM Meltdown Patch Opened Bigger Security Hole on Windows 7
Wednesday March 21, 2018 @02:26PM Microsoft Says Windows 10 Spring Creators Update Will Install in 30 Minutes
Monday February 26, 2018 @01:50AM Hackers Are Selling Legitimate Code-signing Certificates To Evade Malware Detection
Friday February 16, 2018 @02:26AM Electronics-Recycling Innovator Faces Prison For Extending Computers' Lives
Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:36AM Skype Can't Fix a Nasty Security Bug Without a Massive Code Rewrite
Thursday February 01, 2018 @03:49PM Windows Defender Will Soon Start Removing Applications With Coercive Messaging: Cleaners and Optimizers Put on Notice
Tuesday January 16, 2018 @02:53PM Now Meltdown Patches Are Making Industrial Control Systems Lurch
Wednesday January 03, 2018 @07:51AM Kinect Is Really Dead Now, Basically
Wednesday December 27, 2017 @02:22PM Mozilla Patches Critical Bug in Thunderbird
Wednesday December 27, 2017 @01:40AM Beware: 'Digmine' Cryptocurrency Bot Is Spreading Via Facebook Messenger
Saturday December 16, 2017 @10:26AM Windows 10 Bundles a Password Manager. Password Manager Bundles a Security Flaw
Tuesday December 12, 2017 @01:44AM Ask Slashdot: Biggest IT Management Mistakes?
Saturday December 09, 2017 @03:48PM 'Process Doppelganging' Attack Bypasses Most Security Products, Works On All Windows Versions
Friday December 08, 2017 @06:31AM "Process Doppelgänging" Attack Works on All Windows Versions
Friday November 17, 2017 @03:48PM Windows 8 and Later Fail to Properly Apply ASLR
Thursday November 09, 2017 @02:27PM Windows 10's Version of AirDrop Lets You Quickly Share Files Between PCs
Monday November 06, 2017 @06:56PM Microsoft Releases Standards for Highly Secure Windows 10 Devices
Saturday October 28, 2017 @07:29AM NotPetya Outbreak Left Merck Short of HPV Vaccine Gardasil
Monday October 23, 2017 @02:43PM Windows 10's 'Controlled Folder Access' Anti-Ransomware Feature Is Now Live
Saturday October 21, 2017 @12:44AM Consumer Reports Refuses To Recommend Microsoft Surface Book 2
Tuesday October 17, 2017 @02:35PM Microsoft Begins Rolling Out Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
Saturday October 14, 2017 @12:13AM Over 500 Million PCs Are Secretly Mining Cryptocurrency, Researchers Reveal
Sunday October 01, 2017 @03:06PM New 'Illusion Gap' Attack Bypasses Windows Defender Scans
Thursday September 28, 2017 @07:09AM New "Illusion Gap" Attack Bypasses Windows Defender Scans
Thursday September 07, 2017 @10:21AM Bug in Windows Kernel Could Prevent Security Software From Identifying Malware
Friday August 04, 2017 @03:12PM Microsoft Will Not Patch SMBLoris Vulnerability
Monday July 17, 2017 @05:31PM Exploit Derived From EternalSynergy Upgraded to Target Newer Windows Versions
Tuesday June 13, 2017 @05:23PM Microsoft to Disable SMBv1 (WannaCry Attack Vector) Starting This Fall
Saturday May 13, 2017 @06:40PM As World Reacts To WanaDecrypt0r, Microsoft Issues Patch For Old Windows Systems
Saturday May 13, 2017 @05:16AM Microsoft Issues Patch For Old WinXP/Server2003 to Protect Against WanaDecrypt0r
Friday April 14, 2017 @08:28AM Shadow Brokers Release New Batch of Files Containing Windows and SWIFT Exploits
Wednesday April 05, 2017 @05:28PM You Can Install Windows 10 Creators Update Starting Today
Monday April 03, 2017 @11:11AM GitHub Repository Owners Targeted By Data-Stealing Malware
Sunday March 26, 2017 @05:49PM Microsoft Sued Over Windows 10 Upgrade Causing "Data Loss"
Wednesday March 22, 2017 @02:21PM A 21st Century Version Of OS/2 Warp Appears To Be About To Be Released
Thursday March 16, 2017 @07:27PM Windows 10 UAC Bypass Uses Backup and Restore Utility
Sunday March 05, 2017 @05:46AM Third-Party Vendor Issues Temporary Patch for Windows GDI Vulnerability
Sunday February 19, 2017 @09:35AM Google Discloses Windows Bug After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday
Friday February 03, 2017 @10:42AM Windows SMB Zero Day Won't be Fixed Until Patch Tuesday
Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:57PM Windows DRM-Protected Files Used to Decloak Tor Browser Users
Thursday December 29, 2016 @10:21AM Microsoft Tests New 'Green Screen of Death' on Latest Windows 10 Builds
Wednesday November 30, 2016 @01:54PM Holding Shift + F10 During Windows 10 Updates Opens Root CLI, Bypasses BitLocker
Friday November 04, 2016 @10:50PM Here We Go Again: Microsoft's Popping Up Ads From the Windows 10 Toolbar
Thursday November 03, 2016 @03:35AM Computer Virus Attack Forces Hospitals To Cancel Operations, Shut Down Systems
Wednesday September 07, 2016 @04:45PM Modified USB Ethernet Adapter Can Steal Windows and Mac Credentials
Wednesday August 24, 2016 @07:27AM ReactOS 0.4.2 Officially Released (with introduced dot.NET 2.0/4.0 support)
Tuesday August 09, 2016 @05:13PM Annoying "Open PDF in Edge" Default Option Puts Windows 10 Users at Risk
Saturday August 06, 2016 @12:02PM Remote Evil Butler Attack Threatens Windows Computers
Tuesday July 12, 2016 @06:11PM Vulnerability Exploitable via Printer Protocols Affects All Windows Versions
Wednesday June 15, 2016 @05:05PM BadTunnel Bug Hijacks Network Traffic, Affects All Windows Versions
Thursday June 02, 2016 @02:39PM Top Windows OEM Lenovo Urges Customers To Uninstall Accelerator Application
Wednesday June 01, 2016 @08:00PM Windows Zero-Day Affecting All OS Versions On Sale For $90,000
Tuesday May 31, 2016 @07:50PM Windows Zero-Day Affecting All OS Versions on Sale for $90,000
Thursday April 28, 2016 @07:19PM Cisco Finds Backdoor Installed On 12 Million PCs
Thursday April 28, 2016 @12:35AM German Nuclear Plant Infected With Computer Virus
Tuesday April 12, 2016 @10:01AM Jigsaw Ransomware Deletes Your Files If You Don't Pay or When You Reboot Your PC
Wednesday April 06, 2016 @10:21AM Opera's Ex-CEO Launches Vivaldi 1.0 For Power Users
Friday April 01, 2016 @03:20PM Fallout 3 DLC and Games For Windows Live Woes
Saturday March 26, 2016 @09:18AM USB Trojan Hides In Portable Applications, Targets Air-Gapped Systems
Thursday March 24, 2016 @01:54PM Company Behind Badlock Disclosure Says Pre-Patch Hype Is Good Marketing
Tuesday March 22, 2016 @08:43PM After Decades of Abuse, Microsoft Adds an Anti-Macro-Malware Feature to Office
Tuesday March 22, 2016 @07:26PM Google Will Kill Its Chrome App Launcher For Windows, Mac, and Linux In July
Tuesday March 22, 2016 @10:49AM Wine Makes It Possible To Run Vulkan Windows Programs On Linux
Thursday March 17, 2016 @11:38PM Microsoft Tries Hard To Play Nice With Open Source, But There's an Elephant In the Room
Wednesday March 16, 2016 @11:22AM Microsoft Denies Rogue Windows 10 Upgrades, Says Users Remain Fully In Control
Tuesday March 15, 2016 @09:35AM Microsoft Still Accepts Bitcoin, Apologizes For 'Inaccurate Information'
Friday March 11, 2016 @01:35AM Patch Tuesday Brought Windows 10 Ad Generator
Thursday March 10, 2016 @04:26PM New Tool Offers Look At Performance of UWP Games On Windows
Wednesday March 09, 2016 @11:34PM Microsoft To Court: Make Comcast Give Us Windows-Pirating Subscriber's Info
Tuesday March 08, 2016 @01:19PM Brazilian Coders Are Pioneering the First Cross-OS Malware Using JAR Files
Saturday March 05, 2016 @02:19PM Another Windows 10 Update Causing Problems
Friday March 04, 2016 @02:29PM Microsoft Losing Ground On Windows Store and UWP For Gaming
Friday March 04, 2016 @01:31AM Windows RT Could Make a Comeback
Wednesday March 02, 2016 @08:58PM Windows' Built-In PDF Reader Exposes Edge Browser To Hacking
Wednesday March 02, 2016 @03:47PM Windows Built-In PDF Reader Exposes Edge Browser to Hacking
Tuesday March 01, 2016 @11:36PM Microsoft To Unify PC and Xbox One Platforms
Tuesday March 01, 2016 @07:59PM Microsoft Brings Post-Breach Detection To Windows 10
Monday February 29, 2016 @03:07PM Ask Slashdot: Establishing Procurement Policies Regarding Secure Boot?
Thursday February 25, 2016 @02:22PM Microsoft Telemetry Collection, Explained