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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Bitdefender's new small-business bundle has landed in the United Kingdom, bringing an all‑in‑one cybersecurity suite aimed squarely at companies with up to 25 employees that need strong protection without a dedicated IT team. The offering — Bitdefender Ultimate Small Business Security — packages...
Bitdefender’s new Ultimate Small Business Security suite has arrived in the United Kingdom as a one-stop, turn‑key cybersecurity package aimed at firms of up to 25 employees that lack dedicated IT teams, bringing endpoint and server protection, identity monitoring, unlimited VPN, and AI‑assisted...
Bitdefender’s new Ultimate Small Business Security suite has landed in the United Kingdom, arriving as a single, turnkey cybersecurity package aimed squarely at small firms with up to 25 employees that lack dedicated IT teams and need easy-to-manage, multi-device protection against ransomware...
Microsoft’s role as both the maker of Windows and an increasingly powerful security software vendor is reshaping the economics, engineering and trust model of the MSP security market — and the implications are now impossible for partners to ignore. Background
The debate was center stage at a...
Mozilla has quietly shipped Firefox 143.0.1 — a focused, emergency patch whose sole purpose is to stop a class of tab crashes caused by third-party DLL injection on Windows systems, with multiple reports pointing to Trend Micro's tmmon64.dll as a common trigger.
Background
Firefox 143 arrived as...
The Arm app ecosystem for Copilot+ PCs is no longer a niche experiment — it is now a mainstream platform strategy backed by Microsoft’s App Assure and Arm Advisory Service, hardware partners shipping NPUs capable of more than 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS), and a growing catalogue of...
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Microsoft’s advisory for CVE-2025-59216 describes a race-condition vulnerability in the Windows Graphics Component that can allow an authenticated local attacker to elevate privileges if they can win a timing window.
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What it is: CVE-2025-59216 is a “concurrent execution using...
Microsoft’s decision to let organizations stream single Windows applications from the cloud — instead of entire Cloud PC sessions — marks a pragmatic pivot in how enterprises will adopt Windows 365 for day-to-day workforces and frontline roles. The new Windows 365 Cloud Apps feature, now in...
Windows 10 will stop receiving free security fixes on October 14, 2025 — and if your PC can’t take the free Windows 11 upgrade, you have five realistic paths forward: enroll in Extended Security Updates (ESU), buy or rent a new Windows 11 PC (including cloud PCs), perform an unsupported upgrade...
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Apple’s recent enterprise momentum is no accident: Canalys data and industry reporting show Macs gaining ground precisely as businesses face a forced Windows refresh and a rising appetite for on-device AI — a convergence that’s reshaping procurement, security posture, and long-term platform...
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