A new PowerShell-based Hyper-V health tool goes beyond replication status to estimate whether a VM is actually ready for a successful failover.

Turns out Windows already gives you all the tools you need to block distracting apps and websites—you just have to put them ...

Jupyter Notebook is a tool to run and write Python code easily, showing results right away, and allowing you to combine code, charts, notes, and files in one place. You can start Jupyter Notebook ...

Microsoft is delivering tools to quickly configure Windows PCs as workstations for Windows and Linux development.

On June 24, 2026, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) facilitated the takedown, suspension, and blocking of domains that ...

Windows Sandbox isn't just for malware testing ...

At the start of this year, I wrote a blog on how 2025 was the ‘year of the infostealer’, and it doesn’t look like that is going to change anytime soon. We’re now into June and the ‘fix’ attacks have ...

Here's what those enrolled in the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates program need to know about each monthly security update. Now updated for KB5094127, released on June 9, 2026. Windows 10 has ...

Increasingly, cyberattacks no longer rely on sophisticated malware exploits or zero-day vulnerabilities. Instead, they depend on something far more predictable and much easier to exploit: people ...

BlackByte is a ransomware strain operated under the Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model that emerged in July 2021. Early versions of the ransomware were developed in C#, while later iterations were ...

Fake browser extensions are nothing new, but this one takes things a step further by deliberately breaking your computer to scare you into infecting it. Security researchers have uncovered a malicious ...

PowerSponse can be used in the containment and remediation phase (deny, degrade and disrupt) of an incident. Of course, the containment part contradicts with the forensic soundness, which means that ...