endpoint security

Microsoft’s advisory listing for CVE-2025-62216 describes a Microsoft Office vulnerability that can result in remote code execution when a crafted Office document is processed on an endpoint — a serious finding that demands immediate, prioritized mitigation across both corporate and consumer...

The Louvre’s security humiliation—reports that a surveillance server could be accessed with the password “LOUVRE”—has turned a sensational daytime robbery of the Galerie d’Apollon into a wider institutional reckoning over museum cybersecurity, procurement failures and the real-world consequences...

ESET Small Business Security arrives as a compact, familiar-looking security suite that wraps ESET’s long-standing antivirus engine into a small‑business‑friendly package — but the reality beneath the polished interface is a mixture of rock‑solid lab results, practical business controls, and...

If you’ve opened Task Manager and spotted lsass.exe running, it’s not a casual background program — it’s the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service, the core Windows component that enforces authentication and security policy, and yes, it’s supposed to be there — but attackers sometimes...

Apple’s new Underdogs short leaves little to chance: a trade‑show full of blue screens, a single booth that keeps running, and a pithy marketing line that reduces a complex, multi‑vendor outage to a single lesson — “Macs don’t panic.” Background / Overview Apple released an eight‑to‑nine minute...

Microsoft’s blunt warning landed with blunt clarity: running unsupported Windows 10 (or any unsupported OS) isn’t merely an inconvenience — it’s an open invitation to attackers. That message, amplified in consumer reporting from Kurt “the CyberGuy” and repeated across Microsoft’s security...

The countdown to October 14, 2025 is no longer a background calendar item — it’s an operational deadline that transforms a routine OS migration into a strategic modernization program that can materially reduce risk, lower support cost, and prepare staff for an AI-first workplace by refreshing...

Microsoft’s blunt new advisory — that “unsupported systems aren’t just outdated — they’re unprotected” — should be treated as a security redline for every IT team still running Windows 10 after Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 end-of-support deadline. Background / Overview Microsoft published a...

Microsoft has officially stopped providing security updates, feature updates, and standard technical support for Windows 10 as of October 14, 2025 — and for most users the practical next step is to move to Windows 11 (if your PC is eligible) or enroll in the temporary Extended Security Updates...

Microsoft has published a security advisory and accompanying fixes for CVE-2025-58737, a use‑after‑free vulnerability in Windows Remote Desktop that can lead to local remote code execution when exploited under specific conditions. The advisory and industry trackers indicate the vulnerability was...

A high‑impact elevation‑of‑privilege flaw has been disclosed in the Azure Connected Machine (Azure Arc) agent that can let an authenticated local user — or an attacker with low‑privileged local execution — escalate to SYSTEM/root on Arc‑enabled servers, and potentially abuse machine identities...

Microsoft’s decision to end mainstream support for Windows 10 on 14 October 2025 has created a high-stakes, time-sensitive problem for tens of millions of users and thousands of organisations — from home PCs in living rooms to entire enterprise fleets — forced to choose between hurried upgrades...

Microsoft’s decision to stop routine security updates and standard technical support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 is a hard calendar moment with real security, operational and economic consequences for millions of home users, small businesses and large enterprises worldwide. The company...

A fresh telemetry snapshot from remote‑support sessions underscores a stark reality: as Microsoft’s Windows 10 support deadline approaches, a large share of real‑world endpoints remain on an OS that will soon stop receiving routine security patches—creating an urgent migration and...

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint briefly misclassified supported SQL Server releases as “end‑of‑life,” prompting an urgent—but ultimately avoidable—wave of concern among enterprises that rely on Defender XDR for Threat and Vulnerability Management, and forcing administrators to re-examine the...

CrowdStrike has published fixes for two medium‑severity vulnerabilities in the Falcon Windows Sensor that could allow an attacker who already has local code execution to delete arbitrary files on Windows hosts — the issues are tracked as CVE‑2025‑42701 (a TOCTOU race condition) and...

Apple’s new “Underdogs” short doesn’t merely poke at the PC crowd — it stages a full-blown morality play built on last summer’s CrowdStrike outage and ends with a blunt marketing thesis: Macs don’t panic. The eight‑minute ad translates a complex, multi‑vendor incident into a simple platform...

Kaspersky’s telemetry snapshot landed like a warning siren for IT teams and home users: more than half of monitored devices in the vendor’s dataset were still running Windows 10 as Microsoft’s official end-of-support deadline approached, leaving a large population of endpoints exposed the moment...

Windows Hotpatch has quietly rewritten one of the oldest trade-offs in enterprise IT: the choice between applying security updates quickly and preserving uninterrupted user productivity. Microsoft’s Hotpatch technology—now generally available for Windows 11 Enterprise clients and rolled into...

Microsoft’s deadline is now unavoidable: Windows 10 will stop receiving regular security updates on October 14, 2025, and the immediate fallout in India—where millions of machines still run Windows 10—has forced consumers, small businesses, and large organisations into a compressed set of...