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.
Executive summary
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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Windows’ built‑in protection is usually a silent, helpful bodyguard — but when Microsoft Defender (Windows Security) quarantines or removes a file you know is safe, it can suddenly become a workflow blocker. This guide explains why Defender removes files, how to safely prevent automatic...
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CVE-2025-49728 — Microsoft PC Manager: Cleartext storage of sensitive information (Security‑feature bypass, local)
Summary (TL;DR)
Microsoft has assigned CVE‑2025‑49728 to a vulnerability in Microsoft PC Manager where sensitive information is stored in cleartext, enabling a local, unauthorized...
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Smart App Control arrived in Windows 11 as a quiet, opinionated guardian: built to stop untrusted and potentially malicious apps before they run, it pairs cloud intelligence, code-signing checks, and machine learning to make near‑instant allow/deny decisions — but its design choices produce...
Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on many Windows devices this fall, but the rollout is neither universal nor unstoppable — administrators and privacy-conscious users have documented methods to block installation and disable the feature, and Microsoft...
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Windows’ built‑in antivirus has quietly become the practical choice for millions of users, and the recent pushback against paid suites is no accident — the free Windows security stack now combines deep OS integration, modern cloud and AI detections, and targeted anti‑ransomware controls that...
Microsoft’s September servicing quietly removes two long‑standing administration tools — the legacy Windows PowerShell 2.0 engine and the WMIC (Windows Management Instrumentation Command‑line) tool — from certain Windows 11 images, a deliberate security‑first move that closes well‑documented...
Microsoft’s Security Response Center has cataloged CVE-2025-54915 as an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Windows Defender Firewall Service described as “Access of resource using incompatible type (‘type confusion’),” and the vendor advises that an authorized local attacker could...
Microsoft’s security update guide lists CVE‑2025‑54911 as a use‑after‑free defect in Windows BitLocker that can be triggered by an authorized local user to elevate privileges on affected machines, creating a high‑impact local elevation‑of‑privilege risk that administrators must treat as urgent...
Improper access control in Windows MultiPoint Services (CVE-2025-54116) allows a locally authorized attacker to elevate their privileges on an affected host. Executive summary
What it is: CVE-2025-54116 is an elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows MultiPoint Services...