The arrest of a teenage hacker unveiled Microsoft's ability to track Windows PCs via a Global Device ID, raising privacy and ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto showed how hackers could use artificial intelligence to create a program that could target any known flaw in the world’s computers. By Cade Metz Cade Metz has ...

Two decades ago some people still used dial-up modems, and now the world is at our fingertips. Read on to get a sense of how much has changed in the IT office since 2000. I previously wrote about the ...

Jacob Andreou has had a rapid ascent at the 51-year-old tech giant. He is leading the charge to retool its pivotal AI product ...

A hacker used a VPN to stay anonymous. Microsoft's Windows Global Device Identifier logged his activity anyway and handed it ...

IT services giant Accenture has confirmed it suffered a security breach after a threat actor claimed to have stolen 35 GB of ...

The big picture: People have grumbled about Windows telemetry for years, to the point that an entire cottage industry of tools that clean up the OS now exists just to strip the tracking bits out.

If System files are using hundreds of gigabytes on your Windows 11 PC, a bug tied to CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal may be responsible.

The FBI used a Microsoft device identifier, dubbed GDID, to link a teenager to a hack attributed to Scattered Spider, raising ...

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Tech pro ThioJoe explains how attackers exploit invisible text inside Windows environments to secretly carry out malicious ...