The internet did not break this week. It got used exactly as designed, which is worse. Searches were siphoned through shady browser add-ons. AI chat links turned into malware delivery paths. macOS ...

Carolyn Hax can’t get to every question she receives, so every week we ask readers to think like an advice columnist and submit their advice. Out of the many great responses we receive, we select a ...

Security researcher Nightmare Eclipse has released a new Windows BitLocker bypass, only one day after publishing an exploit targeting Microsoft Defender. Named GreatXML, the fresh exploit allows users ...

GitHub has announced what it said are "breaking changes" coming to npm version 12, one of which turns off install scripts by default to combat software supply chain threats. The changes aim to combat ...

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 ...

Bucks County District Attorney Joe Khan, saying parents are “outmatched” by social media companies in the fight for the online safety of their children, has filed a federal lawsuit against the makers ...

Carolyn Hax is away. The following first appeared May 27, 2012. Dear Carolyn: Eight months ago, after a brief illness, my 57-year-old friend’s husband died. Their marriage had always been a bit rocky, ...