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From Hot Dog Bots to Government Subpoenas: Tech's Biggest Security Fails This Week

  • Alan Henry--PCMag.com
  • published date: 2026-02-27 13:00:00 UTC

A fake site about hot dog-eating capabilities may seem funny, but behind the laughs lies a series of serious cybersecurity failures. When Microsoft cut off support for the millions of PCs still running Windows 10, the goal was to force people to either upgrad…

When Microsoft cut off support for the millions of PCs still running Windows 10, the goal was to force people to either upgrade to Windows 11 or buy new PCs that came preinstalled with it. Predictabl… [+6544 chars]