It’s not every day that there’s a new OS in the works for 386 and 486-era hardware, but [John Swiderski] let us know he ...

In this episode, Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start off by taking a trip down the Raspberry Pi memory lane and then tackle a fresh pile of listener mail. The discussion moves on ...

Exploiting a race condition in Microsoft Defender, the exploit leads to local privilege escalation to SYSTEM. A security researcher has released another zero-day exploit targeting Microsoft’s Windows ...

Since its launch in June 2025, the Nintendo Switch 2 has had some issues that players have observed. For starters, the price of Nintendo Switch 2 games are significantly higher than those of previous ...

Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise company, announced it is offering some U.S. travelers two years of free credit monitoring after a data breach leaked the personal information of nearly ...

A cybersecurity researcher has released a proof-of-concept exploit for a Windows privilege escalation zero-day dubbed "MiniPlasma" that lets attackers gain SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows ...

A zero-day exploit circulating online allows people with physical access to a Windows 11 system to bypass default BitLocker protections and gain complete access to an encrypted drive within seconds.

Google says hackers used AI to help build a zero-day exploit targeting 2FA, raising concerns about AI-assisted hacking. Google says hackers used AI to help build a zero-day exploit, then stopped it ...

A newly released proof-of-concept exploit called RedSun is raising serious concerns around Microsoft Defender security. The exploit allows attackers to gain full SYSTEM-level access even on fully ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

The software bug was capable of crashing an operating system used by firewalls, servers and network appliances. It went undetected for over 27 years. Last month, it was caught by Mythos, the latest AI ...

The leak online of exploit code for an apparent Windows zero-day flaw dubbed "BlueHammer" could be the sign of a larger issue that security researchers face when collaborating with Microsoft on ...