If you have accounts on any of these services, now's a good time to check your security settings. Plus more from a busy week in cybersecurity chaos. I've been writing and editing stories for almost ...

Notepad++ has adopted a “double-lock” design for its update mechanism to address recently exploited security gaps that resulted in a supply-chain compromise. The new mechanism landed in Notepad++ ...

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who used their control to deliver backdoored ...

Notepad++ has been my go-to for plenty of things, programming included. I didn't really do much with it outside the basics, though. Once I started to check out the different things I could do on ...

A high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2025-49144) in the Notepad++ installer could be exploited by unprivileged users to gain SYSTEM-level privileges through insecure executable search paths. There is ...

The developer of the popular Windows app Notepad++ has warned users not to be fooled by a copycat site that is ranking highly on Google. Notepad++ is a text and code editor that’s been available for ...

It’s been another week for serious hacks, including a breach at the newsletter platform Substack that exposed phone numbers and email addresses, and another at the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase ...