One of the most successful operating-system of all times - Microsoft Windows XP went "End-Of-Life" on April, 8th, 2014 leaving users with vulnerable systems as no updates including critical security-patches will get issued by Microsoft in future to "general" users. However, the company will be providing security patches to users enrolled under their "Windows Embedded POSReady 2009" program and below shared registry hack will let any "Windows XP" user receive the same patches for free till April 9, 2019.

Adam Boileau, a security consultant from New Zealand released a utility to unlock a Windows PC in seconds bypassing the standard Login/Password requirement, The utility named "Winlockpwn" makes use of a vulnerability in Windows handling of Firewire port, the hacker needs to physically connect a Linux based computer to the victims Firewire port and execute a command in order to get