A hacker’s arrest just revealed how Microsoft can track your Windows device

A hacker used a VPN to stay anonymous. Microsoft's Windows Global Device Identifier logged his activity anyway and handed it ...
PCMag

A Hacker's Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID

The FBI used a Microsoft device identifier, dubbed GDID, to link a teenager to a hack attributed to Scattered Spider, raising ...
TechSpot

One of Windows' most hated features just helped catch a 19-year-old hacker

The big picture: People have grumbled about Windows telemetry for years, to the point that an entire cottage industry of tools that clean up the OS now exists just to strip the tracking bits out.
IEEE

Social Engineering Analysis Framework: A Comprehensive Playbook for Human Hacking

Abstract: Social Engineering attacks are among the most exploited methods in today’s cybersecurity threat landscape. Despite the impact and the volume of such incidents, there is still a surprising ...
Hackaday

This Week In Security: Windows 10 Gets Another Year, SmartTV Botnets, Hiding Payloads, And LastPass Customer Leak

Unsurprisingly to many of us, app stores for smart televisions are also trash. Perhaps even more full of trash than other app stores due to the smaller ecosystem and fewer reviewers. Spur analyzed ...

ConsentFix and ClickFix: How Microsoft 365 Accounts are Hijacked in 3 Seconds

ConsentFix and ClickFix attacks steal Microsoft 365 tokens in seconds using fake prompts and OAuth flows. Learn how these MFA ...