Email attachments are probably the most common mechanism for infecting a Windows computer. As potential victims get wise to the tried and true infection schemes, bad guys have a relatively new wrinkle ...

An introduction to the Chakra JavaScript engine and how it can be used within a Windows 10 app to execute JavaScript. Initially, the concept of executing JavaScript within a Universal Windows Platform ...

JavaScript is a programming language used to create dynamic website content. This is any content that moves, changes, or updates on your screen without you having to refresh the page. JavaScript is ...

Potentially helping developers more quickly build cross-platform applications, Microsoft is releasing as open source its WinJS JavaScript library for building Windows-styled controls. Now that the ...

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An update was added to the end of the article explaining that any Authenticode-signed file, including executables, can be modified to bypass warnings. A new Windows zero-day allows threat actors to ...

A recent malicious campaign delivering Magniber ransomware has been targeting Windows home users with fake security updates. Threat actors created in September websites that promoted fake antivirus ...

“Designed to enhance the rich user experience of Windows 8, Studio for WinRT XAML gives developers powerful and unique controls for building better Windows Store apps,” said Greg Lutz, product manager ...

The new version of Internet Explorer 10 that's part of the recently released Windows 8 Release Preview OS included a number of changes and additions; that includes improvements made in running ...

The Tor Project is advising that people stop using Windows after the discovery of a startling vulnerability in Firefox that undermined the main advantages of the privacy-centered anonymity tool. The ...

For some time Microsoft didn’t offer a solution for processing big data in cloud environments. SQL Server is good for storage, but its ability to analyze terabytes of data is limited. Hadoop, which ...