The first big Windows 11 update of 2026 is landing as more than a routine security patch, bringing a wave of fixes that touch ...

Microsoft has issued its first Patch Tuesday security updates for Windows 11 in 2026, and this round includes some important ...

The January 2026 Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 11 address a battery issue on devices with a Neural Processing Unit, and ...

Microsoft is making sweeping changes to its Windows operating system (OS) in the wake of this past summer's flawed CrowdStrike update, which caused millions of commercial devices to crash and cost ...

Last summer's CrowdStrike meltdown caused billions of dollars in damage and exposed some fundamental architectural flaws in the Windows platform. A single flawed update from one vendor was enough to ...

‘We’re always going to sit in the middle and basically have to deal with rising alert volumes, giant telemetry repositories, faster IOCs [indicators of compromise] conversion, more containment,’ says ...

Toggle the Real-time protection switch off. You may receive a User Account Control (UAC) prompt asking if you want to allow the change to occur. Select Yes. When you're ready to turn system protection ...

In the aftermath of the devastating CrowdStrike outage this July, Microsoft vowed to do better even though it insisted that the event was an aberration. Evidently unwilling to take chances (or risk ...

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 ...