In a few weeks, hundreds of hackers will descend on Las Vegas for the Defcon/Black Hat conferences and do their absolute best to never set foot outside of the hotels in the ungodly heat. One of the ...

If businesses and consumers stuck to security basics, they could have avoided all cases of Conficker worm infection detected on 1.7 million systems by Microsoft researchers in the last half of 2011.

In early April, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) delivered a blistering report excoriating Microsoft’s lax security practices, which allowed Chinese spies to hack into the accounts of high ...

It’s the middle of 2022 and it’s a perfect time to review your plans, goals and risks to your network, especially given the changing threat landscape. Ransomware, for example, has become more human ...

Some security patches take time. Seven-and-a-half years, in fact, if you count the time it’s taken Microsoft to patch a security issue in its SMB (Server Message Block) service, fixed Tuesday. This ...

Update, May 11, 2025: This story, originally published May 9, has been updated with more details on the move towards greater cloud Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) transparency by both ...

Review: Network Access Protection (NAP) is the term Microsoft uses for a suite of enforcement mechanisms closely tied to endpoint security compliance. Related: NAC: What went wrong? NAP is based on a ...

Restarting the router is probably the first thing you have done already. If not, you need to restart your router and check if the problem resolves or not. If your router cannot update the security ...

Windows 10 users and administrators report widescale network printing issues after installing the KB5006670 cumulative update and other updates released this week. On Tuesday, Microsoft released ...

Imagine this: With a single password typed only once, a businessman from Detroit gets real-time updates to his calendar, e-mail account, instant messenger, travel schedule and bank statement, ...

A network security key is basically your Wi-Fi password — it's the encryption key that protects your internet. There are three different kinds of network security keys: WEP, WPA, and WPA2, each more ...