Microsoft is warning against a simple hack that enables those still using Windows XP to receive security updates through 2019. The trick involves modifying the system registry, a process that is ...

People still running the now-retired Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) can trick the operating system into installing security updates, a researcher said Monday. The hack requires an edit of a single ...

The hack seemingly allows XP users to continue to install security updates, but Microsoft is advising people not to use it. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...

"Enlightening and frightening" was the phrase used by a Microsoft executive to describe a hacking demonstration on a Windows XP system by two British e-crime specialists. The demonstration took place ...

This was how the journalist from News.com in this story described the reaction of a Microsoft UK executive to the hacking of a Windows XP machine by two British “e-crime specialists”. Did I mention ...

German computer magazine C’T is reporting a procedure that will let you change Windows XP Home Edition to Windows XP Professional just by changing two bytes in an installation file (implying, at least ...