cybersecurity

When Microsoft set a hard end-of-support date for mainstream Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, many IT teams reacted as if every Windows 10 machine suddenly became a ticking cybersecurity time bomb—but for operational technology (OT) environments the reality has always been more nuanced, and the...

Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to build a cloud‑native, AI‑enabled unified data platform intended to accelerate transmission planning, improve real‑time situational awareness, and help the Midwest grid absorb surging...

The calendar year 2025 did more than accelerate an already fast-moving technology trend — it ruptured assumptions about how artificial intelligence would enter the critical infrastructure of economies, politics, work and security, and forced a new question to the foreground: what does practical...

Yogi Schulz’s Top‑10 reflections on information technology in 2025 crystallize a simple but profound idea: AI moved from a feature to an infrastructure layer that reshaped procurement, power planning, cybersecurity, and day‑to‑day operations across the energy industry. Background / Overview 2025...

ServiceNow’s move to acquire Armis — a deal announced as an all‑cash agreement worth approximately $7.75 billion — marks a decisive bet that workflow automation and real‑time asset visibility must converge to secure the new, AI‑driven enterprise attack surface. Overview ServiceNow announced it...

Microsoft’s own documentation now warns that the new “agentic” AI features in Windows 11 — the capabilities that let built‑in agents act on a user’s behalf — introduce novel security risks, including the possibility that an agent could be manipulated into exfiltrating data or even downloading...

Maharashtra has quietly crossed a threshold in digital policing: an AI-powered investigative platform called MahaCrimeOS has been unveiled by Microsoft and the state government and is being positioned to scale from a Nagpur pilot to cover roughly 1,100 police stations across the state — a move...

CISA’s updated Cross‑Sector Cybersecurity Performance Goals — CPG 2.0 — mark a decisive shift from checklist-style guidance to measurable, governance‑backed outcomes for critical infrastructure owners and operators, placing accountability and enterprise risk management alongside technical...

Cybercriminals are increasingly bypassing technical perimeter defenses not by hacking in, but by being hired in—posing as legitimate remote employees, slipping through HR and onboarding, and then using hardware and identity tricks to gain persistent, trusted access to corporate systems...

Microsoft’s advisory language and public vulnerability metrics are often shorthand for two different concerns: what an attacker can achieve and how the vulnerable code is actually invoked. That distinction lies at the heart of the current public record around CVE-2025-62563 — a Microsoft Excel...

Microsoft’s MSRC entry for CVE-2024-57974 correctly states that Azure Linux includes the upstream open‑source component and is therefore potentially affected, but that wording is an inventory attestation — not proof that other Microsoft products cannot contain the same vulnerable code. Azure...

Cyber extortion has moved from episodic crisis to structural risk: in the months leading into 2026 we’re seeing a sustained surge in ransomware and extortion activity driven by a volatile mix of state‑aligned operators, opportunistic criminal syndicates, politically motivated hacktivists, and...

A newly disclosed vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-11731, affects libxslt and stems from a type confusion bug in the library’s EXSLT handling routine exsltFuncResultComp, allowing a specially crafted stylesheet to cause unexpected memory reads and application crashes—effectively a...

The “Windows Update” screen you trust has been weaponized: attackers are using a high-fidelity fake update pop-up to trick Windows users into pasting and executing a malicious command that boots a fileless, in‑memory infostealer — a fresh and dangerous iteration of the ClickFix...

Johnson Controls has warned that a certificate-handling flaw in several iSTAR door‑controller families can leave panels unable to restore host communication after the default TLS certificate expires — a failure that impacts availability rather than enabling obvious data theft, but which...

Advantech’s iView — a widely deployed industrial video monitoring and management platform — is the subject of a fresh, high‑priority coordinated advisory that catalogs multiple remote, authenticated and (in some cases) authenticated‑low‑privilege vulnerabilities that can lead to SQL injection...

CISA on March 20, 2025 published five new Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories that flag high‑risk flaws across multiple vendors — Schneider Electric (two advisories), Siemens, SMA Solar Technology, and Santesoft — and urge operators to apply patches and mitigations immediately...

The Indian government has issued a sweeping directive that will force app-based messaging services to remain tied to an active SIM card on the device where the app runs, and to implement periodic web‑session logout and re‑authentication — a move that reshapes how WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal...

Malaysia’s corporate sector is at a crossroads: headline adoption figures for data analytics and AI sparkle — but beneath the surface lies a set of structural weaknesses that threaten to turn short‑term gains into long‑term liabilities. Background / Overview The recent profile of CPA Australia’s...

Zenzero and Microsoft convened UK technology leaders this month to sound a clear warning: as organisations rush to adopt AI, the limiting factor — and the greatest risk — is not the model but the data that feeds it, and urgent investment in data resilience, governance and secure platforms must...