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This Windows File Might Be Secretly Collecting Sensitive Data Since Windows 8

There is a Windows file named WaitList.dat that covertly collects your passwords and email information, with the help of Windows Search Indexer service. Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) expert Barnaby Skeggs first discovered the information about the file back in 2016 but wasn’t paid much attention. However, in after a new and exclusive interview with ZDNet – […]

How Search Engine Works and Makes Your Life Easier?

Short Bytes: Search Engine is a software that allows the display of relevant webpage results based on the search query input by the use of Web Crawling and Web Indexing, some fat formulae and intelligent algorithms in order to gather the appropriate data. A few thousand searches were made in the time this webpage got […]