Microsoft has quietly tightened Windows 11’s security model, and the latest change is already raising eyebrows.

Google researcher sits on UAC bypass for ages, only for it to become valid with new security feature Microsoft patched a bevy of bugs that allowed bypasses of Windows Administrator Protection before ...

PCWorld reports that Microsoft’s patch for CVE-2025-60718 in Windows 11 remains incomplete despite Google’s Project Zero identifying the insufficient fix. The vulnerability affects the Administrator ...

Use one of these first three methods if you’re changing the built-in Administrator account name. The last method works only for regular accounts that have admin rights. This is the quickest method, ...

Microsoft has released Windows 11 build 27774 for Insiders in the Canary channel. One of the main updates in this build is a new method for enabling Administrator protection, which can improve ...

Revolutionary is a big word; it positively effuses import. “Something markedly new or introducing fundamental change” is the definition I like best, and it’s ideally suited to this latest Microsoft ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Super Administrator account in Windows is a powerful, built-in account that offers elevated privileges beyond those of a standard administrator account. This account is particularly useful for ...