Microsoft has disclosed that a privilege escalation and a denial-of-service flaw in Defender has come under active exploitation in the wild. The former, tracked as CVE-2026-41091, is rated 7.8 on the ...

Microsoft released .NET 11 Preview 4, a broad update covering runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, C# and Entity Framework Core. The company said the fourth preview includes improvements ...

SQLMind Studio is a Windows-based SQL editor and database management tool designed specifically for Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. It extends and modifies the open-source Beekeeper ...

Another year passes. I was hoping to write more articles instead of just these end-of-the-year screeds, but I almost died in the spring semester, and it sucked up my time. Nevertheless, I will go ...

Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the lid on a previously undocumented threat cluster dubbed GhostRedirector that has managed to compromise at least 65 Windows servers primarily located in Brazil, ...

Microsoft’s recent launch of a standalone version of the MongoDB compatibility layer for its global-scale Azure Cosmos DB brought back an old name. Back in 2018, when the company unveiled a public ...

The world of security research is no stranger to the phenomenon of not-a-vulnerability. That’s where a security researcher finds something interesting, reports it to the project, and it turns out that ...

Extensible Markup Language, or XML, is a language used to define the rules for the format in which documents are encoded. This format is readable by both humans and machines. However, XML files often ...

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