"Boop." Windows needs your permission to continue. Is there any feature of Microsoft Windows Vista more universally reviled than the User Account Control, or UAC for short? It's a necessary evil at ...

User Account Control (UAC) helps prevent unauthorized changes. We don't recommend switching it off. Using the Control Panel leaves little room for error vs. editing ...

A pair of Windows bloggers posted more proof-of-concept code today that subverts an important security feature of Windows 7, a problem that Microsoft knew about as long ago as last October and that ...

Security pundits crave attention the same way Rod Blagojevich loves the camera. Latest case in point: Security experts are publicly complaining that User Account Control (UAC) in the Windows 7 beta ...

Well the idiots won. They had to press OK once or twice a day, and they weren't gonna take it. Now windows is going to be made 'insecure by default' even though the SDL motto is "secure by default" - ...

Microsoft has admitted that the security updates released for Windows in August caused problems for a lot of users. Affected users experienced a series of unexpected UAC (User Account Control) prompts ...

Windows 11 KB5127648 reportedly fixes Group Policy failures linked to Administrator Protection, though Microsoft has not confirmed the fix.

Microsoft's latest August 2025 security update is wreaking havoc on non-admin users across several versions of Windows 10 and 11, preventing app installations from occurring in certain cases.

Though the fellows sounding the warning today are the best in the business, it didn't take a lot of know-how to develop a proof-of-concept that the new User Access Control panel can be disabled by ...