Microsoft announced that built-in protection is generally available for all devices onboarded to Defender for Endpoint, the company's endpoint security platform. Once applied, this default set of ...

Microsoft Defender, the company’s security app, is now available to any individual who has a subscription to Microsoft 365, the online productivity suite that includes Word, Excel, and more. Different ...

The Microsoft Defender antivirus product built into Windows 10 and 11 is generally good enough at detecting and removing malware that most people don’t need to pay for a separate antivirus product.

Microsoft has pulled a recent Microsoft Defender update that was supposed to fix a known issue triggering persistent restart alerts and Windows Security warnings that Local Security Authority (LSA) ...

Enhanced phishing protection in Microsoft Defender is a security feature designed to guard against phishing attacks that attempt to steal users’ personal or login information. It works by actively ...

New warning issued for Chrome users. Microsoft has just issued a new warning for Chrome users after discovering a sophisticated new attack that steals “credentials stored in the browser, digital ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced the "general availability" commercial release of "differentiated protection for priority accounts" for Microsoft Defender for Office 365 users. The priority account ...

PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. Effective Feb. 28, Microsoft is axing a VPN service ...

Microsoft to remove VPN from M365 users. Update, Feb. 4, 2025: This story, originally published Feb. 3, now includes a statement from Microsoft about the removal of ...

Earlier in February, Mozilla accused Microsoft of using dark patterns to trick Windows users into installing the Edge browser. Mozilla claimed that the Redmond-based tech giant was forcing the Edge ...

Microsoft on Thursday announced the gradual end of its Windows Information Protection (WIP) service, which is designed to keep users of Microsoft 365 apps from inadvertently disclosing organizational ...