A Windows task scheduler API function does not check permissions – so any potential local bad actor can alter them to gain elevated privileges. A zero-day flaw recently disclosed in Microsoft’s ...

Exploit developer SandboxEscaper has quietly dropped a new zero-day exploit for the Windows operating system just a week after Microsoft's monthly cycle of security updates. This exploit is the fifth ...

Windows Task Scheduler allows users to perform routine tasks on their computers automatically. Computer resources, including processors, network links, or expansion cards, are assigned certain tasks ...

Task Scheduler in Windows is a legacy utility and hasn’t received much attention with the adoption of apps and new features.

An unpatched local privilege escalation zero-day vulnerability in Windows 10 received a temporary patch today. The fix is delivered through the 0patch platform and can be applied on systems without ...

While using Windows 11/10 regularly, one can easily understand that the OS is a mixture of various background tasks and processes. To complete a huge number of background processes, Windows uses a ...

Recently Google announced two zero-days that impacted both the Chrome browser and Windows 7 operating system. Google released an update to Chrome to protect users from the issue, and Microsoft patched ...

I prefer to have all my scheduled system tasks centralised...so I'd like to schedule a Defender scan using the *Vista's Task Scheduler*, rather than configuring it with the scan options in Defender ...

How to use Windows 10 Task Scheduler to run Office 365 tasks Your email has been sent Lots of us have recurring tasks that are repeated daily, weekly, monthly—even hourly. Opening a document and ...

In Windows XP the Task Scheduler was easy to deal with. Anyone could look at it (Control Panel -> Scheduled Tasks) and easily understand which tasks were scheduled and when they ran. Windows 7 ...

Tom Fenton details step-by-step directions to configure Windows 10 to allow running Task Scheduler and how to set up an automated task to run a PowerShell script every four hours. Recently I had a ...