This smartwatch trick could steal government secrets from ultra-secure computers without touching the internet or raising any alarms

Smartwatches may soon be the newest tool for breaching even the most secure computer Ultrasonic signals are invisible to us but may carry secrets out of air-gapped machines SmartAttack depends on rare conditions, but its possibility proves no system is ever completely safe A new research paper proposes an unusual method of data exfiltration from…

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‘You did say how much you loved Vista’ – Microsoft’s most hated operating system pops up in Windows 11’s weirdest glitch ever

Windows 11 test builds are playing the Windows Vista startup sound A Microsoft exec has confirmed that this is a bug in those previews That seems a startling coincidence, given that Microsoft has recently been poking fun at Apple’s Liquid Glass for looking like Windows Vista In one of the strangest developments with Windows 11…

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How much? A shocking number of people don’t know what Windows version they have – but this doesn’t mean they aren’t confident they could upgrade to Windows 11 right now

We asked our readers about their Windows 11 plans Plenty of users are confident they could easily upgrade their devices Not all users have the RAM capacity, or know their RAM at all As Microsoft‘s official Windows 10 End of Life comes ever nearer (October 14, 2025 for those of you who don’t already know!),…

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This new ransomware could be deadly for your most precious files – here’s how to stay protected

Security researchers claim Anubis ransomware is adding a file wiper The wiper reduces all files to 0 KB, irreversibly destroying them This could be an additional pressure point during negotiations Anubis, a relatively new Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation, added a new feature to its encryptor that irreversibly destroys all encrypted files on the compromised system. Cybersecurity…

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