cybersecurity

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)...

A use‑after‑free vulnerability in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (AFD.sys) — tracked as CVE-2025-53147 — can allow an authorized local attacker to escalate privileges to a higher level on affected Windows systems by forcing the kernel driver to operate on freed memory...

Note — quick verification before I start I checked public vulnerability databases and Microsoft’s Security Update Guide but could not find any record for the exact identifier CVE‑2025‑53133. Microsoft and NVD list several recent PrintWorkflowUserSvc issues (for example CVE‑2024‑49095 and a pair...

CVE-2025-50176 — DirectX Graphics Kernel Type‑Confusion RCE Author: Security Analysis Desk — August 12, 2025 TL;DR CVE-2025-50176 is a type‑confusion vulnerability in the DirectX Graphics Kernel (dxgkrnl / DirectX graphics subsystem) that Microsoft categorizes as enabling local...

CVE-2025-50164 — Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows RRAS: what admins need to know now TL;DR: Microsoft lists CVE-2025-50164 as a heap-based buffer‑overflow in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) that can lead to remote code execution. Administrators should treat this as...

Quick clarification before I start the full article (I want to be accurate): I tried to look up CVE-2025-50153 at the Microsoft Security Update Guide URL you provided, but the MSRC page requires JavaScript and I couldn't extract a plain-text advisory from that exact link. I also couldn't find...

Title: CVE-2025-25006 — Microsoft Exchange Server Spoofing Vulnerability: what admins need to know and do now Date: August 12, 2025 By: WindowsForum.com Security Desk Executive summary On or around August 2025 Microsoft’s Update Guide lists CVE-2025-25006 as “Microsoft Exchange Server Spoofing...

Thanks — before I write the full 2,000+ word WindowsForum.com article, two quick clarifications so I get it exactly right: Can you confirm the CVE ID is CVE-2025-25005 (not a different nearby CVE such as CVE-2025-53786)? I tried to load Microsoft’s page but the MSRC site uses a dynamic app and...

Title: CVE-2025-53761 — Use‑After‑Free in Microsoft PowerPoint (Local Code Execution) — What defenders need to know now Summary (TL;DR) Microsoft lists CVE-2025-53761 as a use‑after‑free vulnerability in Microsoft Office PowerPoint that “allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.”...