Getty Images reader comments 171 with 101 posters participating Share this story Microsoft has been working to make passwordless sign-in for Windows and Microsoft accounts a reality for years now, and today those efforts come to fruition: The Verge reports that starting today, users can completely remove their passwords from their Microsoft accounts and opt… Read More »
Microsoft and Marvel are teaming up to celebrate the launch of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings in style, with a custom Xbox Series X and controller up for grabs. RELATED: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Review – Representation That Matters Xbox is holding a special sweepstake for the chance to… Read More »
reader comments 47 with 40 posters participating Share this story If you receive an email from someone@arstechnіca.com, is it really from someone at Ars? Most definitely not—the domain in that email address is not the same arstechnica.com that you know. The ‘і’ character in there is from the Cyrillic script and not the Latin alphabet. This… Read More »
Jorg Greuel | Getty Images reader comments 36 with 26 posters participating Share this story More than a thousand web apps mistakenly exposed 38 million records on the open Internet, including data from a number of COVID-19 contact-tracing platforms, vaccination sign-ups, job application portals, and employee databases. The data included a range of sensitive information,… Read More »
reader comments 59 with 43 posters participating Share this story Government officials in the US, UK, and Australia are urging public- and private-sector organizations to secure their networks by ensuring firewalls, VPNs, and other network-perimeter devices are patched against the most widespread exploits. In a joint advisory published Wednesday, the US FBI and CISA (Cybersecurity… Read More »
reader comments 39 with 29 posters participating Share this story An emergency patch Microsoft issued on Tuesday fails to fully fix a critical security vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows that allows attackers to take control of infected systems and run code of their choice, researchers said. The threat, colloquially known as PrintNightmare, stems… Read More »
reader comments 47 with 39 posters participating Share this story Microsoft gave its digital imprimatur to a rootkit that decrypted encrypted communications and sent them to attacker-controlled servers, the company and outside researchers said. The blunder allowed the malware to be installed on Windows machines without users receiving a security warning or needing to take… Read More »
reader comments 31 with 25 posters participating Share this story The nation-state hackers who orchestrated the SolarWinds supply chain attack compromised a Microsoft worker’s computer and used the access to launch targeted attacks against company customers, Microsoft said in a terse statement published late on a Friday afternoon. The hacking group also compromised three entities… Read More »
Xbox has officially announced a handful of new titles coming to Game Pass throughout the end of the month and beginning of the next. Nine new games will be coming to Game Pass through a mix of the cloud, console, PC, or all three all the way through July 1, 2021. Worms Rumble is one of the… Read More »
According to separate reports from VGC and Jeff Grubb, Rare has gone back to the drawing board with their original IP Everwild. RELATED: Hades Coming to Xbox and PlayStation, Gets Physical Release After being shown at last year’s Microsoft E3 event and at XO19 in November 2019, it was widely expected that the stunning-looking title would… Read More »