cybersecurity

Satya Nadella’s internal memo bluntly reframes Microsoft’s next act: the century-old “software factory” that Bill Gates imagined has served its purpose, but in the era of generative AI it is no longer enough — Microsoft must become an “intelligence engine” powered by AI, security, and quality...

Microsoft has confirmed what many household and small-business PC owners have been bracing for: the October 2025 Patch Tuesday release will be the last free monthly security update for mainstream Windows 10; after October 14, 2025, Windows 10 devices that are not enrolled in an Extended Security...

Microsoft's late-summer move to soften the blow of Windows 10's end-of-support is a rare mix of relief and a reminder: the clock is still running. The company has rolled out a consumer-focused Extended Security Updates (ESU) program that gives many Windows 10 users a one-year security lifeline —...

Microsoft’s deadline is now fixed: Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, and with it comes a complex, staggered set of follow‑ups that will shape PC security, upgrade plans, and procurement decisions for consumers and enterprises alike. The headline is simple — the OS will...

CISA has formally added CVE-2025-54948 — a critical OS command injection in Trend Micro Apex One’s on‑premises Management Console — to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation and triggering accelerated remediation expectations for federal...

The Australian Taxation Office is preparing to pilot an enterprise-grade AI coding assistant for its roughly 800 core developers, a move that could reshape how government software is produced — from legacy COBOL modernization to automated test generation — while raising familiar questions about...

Windows ships with dozens of features and background services designed to improve convenience — but those conveniences are also additional points of entry for attackers. A recent how‑to-style guide compiled a short list of commonly unnecessary capabilities that many users can safely disable to...

Microsoft’s decision to lock Windows 11 behind a strict hardware gate is about to create a mass of usable-but-unsupported PCs — and the fallout will be technical, financial, and environmental. Background When Microsoft first announced Windows 11, the company framed the new release as a leap...

Siemens has published fixes for an improper VNC password check in multiple SINUMERIK CNC platforms after researchers discovered that the systems’ VNC access service can be reached with insufficient password verification, allowing an attacker on an adjacent network to gain unauthorized remote...

A Southern California resident has filed a state‑court lawsuit seeking to force Microsoft to continue issuing free security updates for Windows 10 beyond the company’s published end‑of‑support date of October 14, 2025, arguing that the scheduled cutoff is not just a routine lifecycle decision...

Using the right mix of software has quietly transformed routine PC tasks from friction-filled chores into smooth, reliable workflows that save time, reduce stress, and let you focus on what matters—work, creativity, or play. The handful of apps I rely on every day—Windows 11 Pro, Microsoft...

A lawsuit filed in San Diego Superior Court seeks to stop Microsoft from ending routine, free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, arguing the company’s planned sunset amounts to forced obsolescence, materially increases cybersecurity risk for millions of users, and is timed to...

Microsoft’s latest cumulative rollup for Windows 10, KB5063709, quietly arrived as part of the August Patch Tuesday cycle and does what Microsoft says it will: restore a broken ESU enrollment flow, harden firmware-level protections, and tidy up a handful of stability and input regressions as the...

Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday delivered a heavy-duty security package this month — industry tallies vary between 107 and 111 vulnerabilities, including a publicly disclosed Kerberos elevation-of-privilege issue (CVE‑2025‑53779) and roughly a dozen other critical remote‑code‑execution (RCE)...

Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists CVE-2025-53783 as a heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Teams that “allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network,” but the advisory page requires JavaScript and cannot be fully scraped by some automated tools; independent indexing of...

I can write that feature article, but a quick verification step first — I could not find any public record for CVE‑2025‑53738 in Microsoft’s Update Guide, NVD, MITRE or other CVE aggregators. I did search MSRC (the link you provided requires JavaScript to render) and public databases for that...

Below is a plain‑language, technical, and operational writeup you can use to brief engineers, SOC, and leadership about CVE‑2025‑53728 (Microsoft Dynamics 365 — on‑premises) and what to do next. I’ve cited the vendor advisory you provided and independent sources where available, and I’ve...

Microsoft’s advisory for CVE-2025-53719 describes an information‑disclosure bug in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) caused by the use of an uninitialized resource, and administrators should treat any RRAS host exposed to untrusted networks as high priority for inspection and...

Title: New LSASS DoS (CVE-2025-53716) — What admins need to know now By WindowsForum.com security desk — August 12, 2025 Summary A null-pointer dereference vulnerability in the Windows Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) — tracked as CVE-2025-53716 in Microsoft’s Security Update...

Headline: Urgent patch: CVE-2025-53145 — a type‑confusion RCE in Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) Summary / lede Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-53145 — an access‑of‑resource using incompatible type (so‑called “type confusion”) vulnerability in Windows Message Queuing (MSMQ)...