Notepad++ says its update system was reportedly hijacked for months in a targeted cyber campaign linked to suspected Chinese ...

A Fortinet FortiWeb path traversal vulnerability is being actively exploited to create new administrative users on exposed devices without requiring authentication. The issue is fixed in FortiWeb ...

The first and most convenient method to change administrator on Windows 11 is to use the Settings app. You can open Windows Settings app and tweak some settings to switch the administrator account.

As businesses around the world have shifted their digital infrastructure over the last decade from self-hosted servers to the cloud, they’ve benefitted from the standardized, built-in security ...

Microsoft's latest August 2025 security update is wreaking havoc on non-admin users across several versions of Windows 10 and 11, preventing app installations from occurring in certain cases.

Error 1005 HY000 is a MySQL-related error that typically appears when a database table can’t be created, altered, or accessed. This issue can occur on both local ...

As mentioned in the recent Windows Insider blog post, the latest preview version of Windows 11 for Insiders on the Dev Channel includes a new feature called “Administrator Protection,” which “aims to ...

Microsoft announced Administrator protection for Windows 11 as part of the Windows Resiliency Initiative at Ignite 2024 in November. At the time, this new feature targeted only commercial customers, ...

In recent years, Windows administrator accounts have been increasingly targeted by malware authors and credential thieves. To address the ongoing threats, Windows 11 is rolling out an Administrator ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...