The recently compromised update mechanism for the popular open source text editor Notepad ++ has been hardened so it’s now ‘effectively unexploitable’, says the application’s author. Don Ho made the ...

The listener component runs on the Remote Desktop server and is responsible for listening to and accepting new Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client connections. This lets users establish new remote ...

Commandline utility to load data into Database Server from Tally software, intended for further use by Database Loader Utility is portable, and does not have a setup wizard like we find for software ...

Command Prompt (CMD) is a powerful tool in Windows, offering tricks and hacks not available in the GUI, making it popular for security and hacking purposes. Access a list of 200+ CMD Tricks, Hacks, ...

If this had been a security drill, someone would’ve said it went too far. But it wasn’t a drill—it was real. The access? Everything looked normal. The tools? Easy to find. The detection? Came too late ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

When you see Error 1067: “The process terminated unexpectedly,” it means a service on your computer failed to start, which could affect programs that rely on it ...

It may seem a little odd to find my name on an article that explicitly does not deal with third-party tools for semantic models, yet I know there are people out there who, for various reasons, can't ...

Extensible Markup Language, or XML, is a language used to define the rules for the format in which documents are encoded. This format is readable by both humans and machines. However, XML files often ...

A Long back, I set out to establish transactional replication from SQL Managed Instance to on-premises SQL Server. What I initially thought would be a straightforward task ended up consuming 4 hours ...