Plummer is the man who claims to have created some major Windows features, including the original Task Manager application. Now, the YouTuber and retired developer shared ...

I've been a bit sleep-deprived lately. Don't you ever get that weird burst of energy when working on your PC late at night?☕ But last night was different. Faced with files scattered across my Explorer ...

If you thought the startling number of yearly data breaches would spur tech companies to improve security, then buckle up, because the trend is only getting worse. Almost every year, we see an ...

SOC analysts accumulate hundreds of KQL queries across Microsoft Defender and Azure Sentinel. They live in Notepad, Notion, shared drives — undocumented, unsearchable, scattered across teams. KQLab ...

Chinese-linked hackers operated a backdoor in the popular Notepad++ code editor for more than six months, targeting specific users through a compromised update server. The attack began in June 2025 ...

Security researchers have attributed the Notepad++ update hijacking to a Chinese government-linked espionage crew called Lotus Blossom (aka Lotus Panda, Billbug), which abused weaknesses in the update ...

The developer of the popular open source text editor Notepad++ has confirmed that hackers hijacked the software to deliver malicious updates to users over the course of several months in 2025. In a ...

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who used their control to deliver backdoored ...

Engineers are now focusing on performance, reliability, and the overall Windows experience. Engineers are now focusing on performance, reliability, and the overall Windows experience. is a senior ...

Note: Using LocalMachine\Root ensures full trust for signature validation. The LocalMachine store ensures the SYSTEM account (used for scheduled renewals) also trusts the certificate. wincertmanager/ ...