Reader Scott points us toward the lesser-known but very handy Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) tool. It's a scripting interface that "simplifies the use of Windows Management ...

Let's face it, Windows machines get hacked, and in some environments it happens a lot. Fortunately, Microsoft has built numerous tools into Windows so administrators and power users can analyse a ...

We recently observed malware authors using a combination of a tool found on all Windows computers and a usually innocuous file type associated with modifying and rendering XML documents. While these ...

WMIC is a powerful tool that lets you query Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) providers directly from the command line or using batch files, and if you’re an administrator then it’s well worth ...

Researchers have uncovered a new attack chain which exploits little-known Microsoft Windows utilities and innocuous software to fly under the radar in the quest to steal data. According to Symantec, ...