Cybersecurity is everyone's business as long as you use the internet in one form or the other. Your job might be to develop the next cutting-edge security tools, raise people's cybersecurity awareness, and so on. And, in some cases, resolve to physically damage your infrastructure to stop an intrusion or minimize the impact. The list can go on. The point is to do your best wherever you might find yourself.
Windows 11’s strongest security defenses can be bypassed without a screwdriver
The title got me laughing. Still, do not panic. The attack assumes some level of access to the Windows 11 device, and Microsoft shipped mitigations as part of this year—2026—updates back in April. All in all, you should be interested in what happened and how the attack worked. For that, read the excerpt below.
...the team demonstrated they could reach into parts of the system Windows is built to keep off-limits, including memory the operating system itself is not supposed to touch. By creating these memory aliases, the researchers showed an attacker could:
Turn hundreds of blocklisted drivers with known vulnerabilities back on
