Attackers targeting Windows are typically after domain admin privileges. Once they have it, researchers say, the security questions feature built into Windows can help them keep it. In a presentation ...

Security questions—the annoying shared secrets used as a secondary form of authentication—have been around forever and are used by just about everyone to deal with users who forget their password.

Windows 10 is no longer officially supported by Microsoft, but that doesn't mean the company has actually stopped supporting it. It's not as confusing as it sounds: As of Oct. 14, Microsoft has ...

Windows 11 migration is inevitable as Windows 10 support ends, and unsupported systems create major security and ransomware ...

When security questions and password hints are required for your accounts, you might not be filling them out wisely. To best protect your account security, you shouldn’t be truthful in these fields.