Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Microsoft Security Excellence Awards that recognize the innovative defenders who have gone above and beyond.

Microsoft’s January 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 112 CVEs, including an exploited Windows DWM zero-day, plus critical flaws ...

Beyond the commonly known Windows Security, firewall, and BitLocker encryption, Microsoft offers a suite of tools and settings to enhance privacy and protect your sensitive information, whether you ...

Windows users are, understandably, given the size of the operating system market share, a prime target for attackers of all kinds, from nation-state espionage actors to hackers and scammers. Windows ...

On Sunday, July 20, Microsoft Corp. issued an emergency security update for a vulnerability in SharePoint Server that is actively being exploited to compromise vulnerable organizations. The patch ...

Editor’s note: This is a guest analysis from Christopher Budd, who previously spent a decade at the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC). Emergency security teams know summer weekends are made ...

When ChatGPT first entered the collective consciousness and became the fastest growing consumer technology ever, there was a fair bit of handwringing in the cybersecurity space. AI was going to churn ...

Microsoft has now confirmed that an April 2025 Windows security update is creating a new empty "inetpub" folder and warned users not to delete it. This folder is typically used by Microsoft's Internet ...

‘We’ve heard the feedback loud and clear,’ David Weston, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of enterprise and OS security, said. Microsoft will release a series of security and resilience services ...

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