It's probably fair to say that a good number of PC enthusiasts have pirated a copy of Windows once upon a time. It's also probably fair to say that a certain number of folks have had the thought "I'll ...

A hot potato: "This is the largest breakthrough in Windows/Office piracy ever," hacker collective Massgrave are claiming on X. The exploit reportedly enables permanent activation of nearly all modern ...

Weak encryption used by Microsoft Corp.’s wireless keyboards can be cracked in a matter of moments, a pair of Swiss security researchers said today (download PDF), giving hackers a way to snatch ...

Microsoft Corp. will feed Windows Vista users an update in the next week to finger illegal copies installed with cracks that the company will bust when it rolls out Service Pack 1 (SP1) in mid-March.