Miscreants will need to find another avenue for malware shenanigans Notepad++ has continued beefing up security with a ...

The program is a free text and code editor that's been downloaded millions of times. The compromise began in June and is likely to have involved a Chinese state-sponsored group.

The recently compromised update mechanism for the popular open source text editor Notepad ++ has been hardened so it’s now ‘effectively unexploitable’, says the application’s author.

Security researchers believe that Chinese hackers are to blame for the attack in part because of the "selective" nature of ...

Notepad++'s updater usually pops up, but users can also prompt it by selecting the "?" dropdown in the taskbar. Christopher Harper is a tech writer with over a decade of experience writing how-tos and ...