Is that CAPTCHA you just encountered real? Find out how fake CAPTCHAs are installing hidden malware and how to stay safe.

The hackers use fake CAPTCHA pages—which are designed to mimic standard security checks—to trick users into installing malicious software (“Stealthy StealC Information Stealer”) via keyboard commands.

One of the best uses for your PC's empty USB ports is housing a USB security key. What this does is automatically lock your system once the USB stick is removed, and unlock it as soon as the drive is ...

Looking to make the move to Windows 11? Microsoft offers several ways to upgrade to its latest OS for free. Uptake has lagged a bit (Windows 10 still has about 36% market share), partly due to ...

I tried the scream to unlock Chrome extension for 3 days. Here’s how yelling to unblock social media cut my work distractions by 70%.

Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...

Getting LeetCode onto your PC can make practicing coding problems a lot smoother. While there isn’t an official LeetCode app ...

Threat actors are now abusing DNS queries as part of ClickFix social engineering attacks to deliver malware, making this the first known use of DNS as a channel in these campaigns.

It's officially time to let go. Windows 10 has been over as we know it for some time now, only for Windows 11 to have taken over. To finalize things even further, Microsoft ended support for the ...

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