Microsoft’s August 2025 Intune update materially expands the platform’s security controls and enrollment ergonomics, delivering four headline features—granular App Control targeting, automatic patching during device setup, near‑real‑time Apple software update visibility via Declarative Device...
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Microsoft’s Security Response Center (MSRC) has cataloged CVE-2025-50155 as an Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability in the Windows Push Notifications Apps component described as “Access of resource using incompatible type (‘type confusion’).” The issue allows an authorized local attacker —...
Microsoft’s Security Response Guide flags a null-pointer dereference in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (AFD.sys) that, when reached by a local, authorized user, can be weaponized into an elevation‑of‑privilege to SYSTEM — a high‑impact kernel vulnerability that demands...
A significant new layer of control is poised to make its debut in the Microsoft Teams Admin Center: rules-based app control for Teams, an update that shifts how organizations manage third-party applications within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. This feature, set to start rolling out in mid-July...
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In an exciting development for Windows users, Windows 11 may soon offer new options to fine-tune how apps like WhatsApp and Spotify behave when you switch between tasks. Spotted by a keen-eyed Windows Insider, these upcoming features hint at a more seamless, personalized interaction with two of...
Project Rome Overview
Project Rome is a platform for creating experiences that transcend a single device and driving up user engagement – empowering a developer to create human-centric scenarios that move with the user and blur the lines between their devices regardless of form factor or...
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I have noticed that a number of applications give themselves permission to get through the firewall. No matter how many times I deny these apps access through the firewall they seem to mysteriously regain permission. Since the last time I unticked all of the following, they are all re ticked...
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Back in October, we Link Removed how security and identity features will continue to evolve in Windows 10. This week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, we’re providing more details on what this means for our enterprise customers.
Earlier today, Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President of...
There have been some problems in the past getting the incredibly useful utility Ultramon to run correctly on Windows 7, looks like that's now a thing of the past with a new beta version of Ultramon (3.0.9) available.
If you've never used it, Ultramon is a great way to extend the benefits of...