Check your PC has all the security features needed by the anti-cheat tech in the latest games, including BF6 and Call of Duty Black Ops 7.

Steam now offers a quick way to check if your PC has Secure Boot enabled. That's probably not information you care to fill your brain up with right now, but you might need to know it at some point ...

Firmware is the low-level software that is deeply integrated into the hardware of your device. It sits beneath higher-level software and your PC’s hardware and acts as a kind of bridge running the ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. A multiplayer beta for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has been announced and begins relatively soon, giving players a first chance to try out the game's ...

Researchers from cybersecurity company ESET have detected a new ransomware called HybridPetya, which is similar to the infamous Petya and NotPetya malware. Like its predecessors, the malware targets ...

A new ransomware strain dubbed HybridPetya was able to exploit a patched vulnerability to bypass Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot on unrevoked Windows systems, making it the ...

Microsoft makes it difficult to avoid using a Microsoft account, but you can still install Windows 11 with a local account, and in this guide, I'll show you how. During setup, the system strongly ...

Security researchers at ESET have identified a new malware strain called HybridPetya that combines traits of Petya and NotPetya ransomware with advanced boot-kit functionality to infect systems ...

NIQ is expanding its services to the data and media ecosystem through privacy-persevering clean rooms, opening up new opportunities for marketing and advertising agencies to enrich their first-party ...

Signal has introduced a new opt-in feature that helps users create end-to-end encrypted backups of their chats, allowing them to restore messages even if their phones are damaged or lost. Secure ...

ESET Research has discovered new ransomware samples, which it has named HybridPetya, resembling the infamous Petya/NotPetya malware. They were uploaded to VirusTotal in February 2025. HybridPetya ...