Google Chrome’s terse banner — “Your browser is managed by your organization” — is both a useful audit cue and a common source of anxiety for home users who didn’t expect any outside control. The message is honest: Chrome has detected at least one non-default policy or managed preference. For...
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Chevron Nigeria’s reported migration of more than 3,000 users from Windows 10 to Windows 11 in just 12 weeks — completed 40% faster than previous rollouts and returning a reported 98% user satisfaction rate — is a practical blueprint for large-scale enterprise upgrades in Nigeria and beyond...
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Delta Electronics has published an advisory warning that its COMMGR engineering and simulation software contains multiple high‑severity vulnerabilities — including a stack‑based buffer overflow (CVE‑2025‑53418) and a code‑injection flaw (CVE‑2025‑53419) — that affect COMMGR versions up to and...
A remote information‑disclosure weakness in Mitsubishi Electric’s MELSEC iQ‑F series CPU modules has been publicly described as a cleartext transmission of sensitive information over SLMP, enabling an attacker with network access to capture credentials and potentially read/write device values or...
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Not long ago, running a Windows PC without a paid third‑party antivirus felt like leaving your front door open — today, that advice is overdue for a rethink because Windows’ built‑in protections are both better and far more capable than most people realize.
Background
Windows has a long...
Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) and its relationship with Windows Server have once again become a focus. Recent reports from Hong Kong and international media, along with practical feedback from community forums, show that as Microsoft continues to release security patches and...
The arrival of an open-source AppLocker policy generator aimed at simplifying XML policy creation for Windows administrators deserves attention: AppLockerGen promises a lightweight, web-like interface to author, merge, inspect, and export AppLocker policies — but the tool’s appeal comes with...
IGEL’s message landed at an awkwardly perfect moment: as Broadcom’s reshaping of VMware nudges enterprises toward migration decisions and Microsoft’s timetable for Windows 10 reaches its endpoint, IGEL is pitching a simple — and radical — premise for enterprises that want to shrink the endpoint...
Urgent: What CVE-2025-55229 Means for Windows — A Deep Dive for Admins and Power Users
By WindowsForum.com Staff Reporter — August 21, 2025
Summary — quick take
Microsoft has published a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-55229 that affects Windows certificate handling: an improper verification...
Microsoft’s security update guide lists a high‑risk elevation‑of‑privilege entry for the Windows MBT Transport driver that, according to the vendor advisory, stems from an untrusted pointer dereference and can be used by an authorized local user to escalate to SYSTEM — a kernel‑level impact that...
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) on 18 August 2025 issued a high‑risk advisory warning that multiple critical vulnerabilities across Microsoft’s product portfolio place millions of Windows and Office users in India — from home desktops to enterprise Azure deployments — at...
Security researchers have uncovered a targeted supply‑chain campaign — dubbed “Solana‑Scan” — in which malicious npm packages masquerading as Solana SDK utilities are being used to harvest developer credentials, wallet keyfiles and other high‑value artifacts from developer machines.
Background...
A cluster of malicious npm packages — cataloged by researchers as a targeted infostealer campaign dubbed “Solana‑Scan” — has been used to lure Solana ecosystem developers into installing backdoored SDKs that harvest wallet credentials, local keyfiles and a broad sweep of developer artifacts...
Three persistent beliefs about Windows security still shape decisions in 2025 — that you must pay for antivirus, that Microsoft Defender is a catch‑all shield, and that staying on Windows 10 is safe for years to come — and each is misleading in ways that matter for risk, cost, and practical...
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Windows 11 ships with a far stronger security baseline than its predecessors, but real-world attackers and configuration gaps still find workarounds—meaning Defender and Windows Security are necessary, not sufficient, for modern threat defense.
Background
Windows 11’s built-in...
Windows Security is a strong baseline for protecting Windows 11 devices, but it was never designed to be a human-proof, one-stop solution — there are modern threats that built-in tools cannot fully mitigate, and relying on default protection alone leaves significant gaps in phishing...
Siemens ProductCERT has published SSA‑493396 — a deserialization vulnerability (CVE‑2025‑40759) that affects a broad swath of TIA‑Portal engineering components, including SIMATIC S7‑PLCSIM V17, STEP 7, and WinCC variants; Siemens assigns a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 and a CVSS v4 base score of...
In a significant escalation for industrial cybersecurity, a broad class of Siemens engineering software has been confirmed vulnerable to a type confusion deserialization flaw that can lead to arbitrary code execution when an attacker has local authenticated access. The issue—tracked under...
A newly republished CISA advisory warns that Rockwell Automation’s Studio 5000 Logix Designer contains an improper input validation flaw that can be triggered via environment variables, allowing an attacker with local network access to crash the engineering software—and in some cases plausibly...
Siemens ProductCERT has confirmed a widespread DLL-hijacking flaw in the Siemens Web Installer used by its Online Software Delivery (OSD) mechanism — tracked as CVE‑2025‑30033 — that can allow arbitrary code execution during installation, carries a CVSS v4 base score of 8.5, and affects dozens...