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

PSA: if you succumbed to the pestering of those warnings Microsoft has been displaying every time you boot your Windows 10 ...

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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HP, Dell, ASUS, Lenovo, MSI and Acer have published Secure Boot certificate guides. Here's what each PC manufacturer says you ...

description: The following analytic detects the execution of PowerShell scripts containing Base64 encoded content, specifically identifying the use of `FromBase64String`. It leverages PowerShell ...

Copilot agents are built to help with research and analysis. In my tests, those agents didn't produce useful results. Troubleshooting with Copilot wasted time and solved nothing. Microsoft is spending ...

I can’t remember the last time I had to manually activate my Windows PC or keep track of my product key, largely thanks to digital license linking and automatic reactivation. So far as you’ve linked ...

On March 31, 2026, two new npm packages for updated versions of Axios, a popular HTTP client for JavaScript that simplifies making HTTP requests to a REST endpoint with over 70 million weekly ...

When you think of cyberattacks that compromise your account security, maybe you envisage Microsoft zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in your software, or perhaps a hacker using ...

When it comes to Windows, activation plays a key role in making sure your copy is genuine and works as it should. Whether you’re installing the operating system for the first time or upgrading an ...

Open a Notepad and copy-paste the following: Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") MsgBox ConvertToKey(WshShell.RegRead("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DigitalProductId")) ...