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including Windows Security and Microsoft Defender. Telling the two apart can be confusing because Microsoft Defender is ...

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Here’s what she described: "I received a pop-up that froze my computer and read, ‘Access to this system is blocked for security reasons’ from Windows Defender Security Center. It came with ...

"Improper authorization of an index that contains sensitive information from a Global Files search in Windows Defender allows an authorized attacker to disclose information over a network," the ...

We have been covering AV-Comparatives reports about the performance of Microsoft Defender ... Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) authenticates users who sign in on a Windows ...

Microsoft delivered the latest security definitions for Windows images via security intelligence update version 1.419.396.0. The Defender package version is also the same. Microsoft also published ...