firmware update

Microsoft’s published GPO approach for rolling out Secure Boot certificate updates gives domain administrators a single, auditable toggle to opt fleets into the OS‑driven Secure Boot key rollout — but it also bundles irreversible firmware changes, telemetry trade‑offs, and a strong dependency on...

Siemens ProductCERT has confirmed two high‑severity vulnerabilities in the SIMATIC S7‑1200 CPU V1/V2 families that can be exploited remotely to either crash controllers into a stop/defect state or replay previously recorded engineering‑level commands — a pair of flaws that demand immediate...

Rockwell Automation has published a critical security advisory for the 1783‑NATR Network Address Translation (NAT) router: three distinct vulnerabilities (CVE‑2025‑7328, CVE‑2025‑7329 and CVE‑2025‑7330) affect firmware versions 1.006 and earlier and are fixed in version 1.007; the flaws include...

Microsoft’s Secure Boot certificate rollover is a platform-level change that will touch firmware, OS servicing, BitLocker, and recovery processes — and IT teams must treat it as a multi-quarter program, not a routine patch. The company’s managed update flow uses a scheduled Windows task that...

Dover Fueling Solutions’ ProGauge MagLink family is at the center of a critical industrial‑control security alert that should be on every fuel‑site operator’s incident response checklist today: the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a high‑severity advisory...

Schneider Electric has published coordinated advisories describing two OS command injection flaws in the BLMon monitoring console used by Saitel DR and Saitel DP Remote Terminal Units (RTUs), vulnerabilities that allow authenticated console users to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands...

Microsoft’s October deadline for Windows 10 support has arrived like a ringing bell for an industry that—by several measures—wasn’t ready: large numbers of consumer and corporate endpoints still run Windows 10, many organisations face compatibility and budget constraints, and the safety net...

If Windows 10 or Windows 11 refuses to detect your external monitor, the problem is almost always one of three things: the physical connection, the graphics driver stack, or the monitor’s own identification data. The how‑to checklist rolled out by mainstream guides is solid — start with cables...

Siemens ProductCERT and CISA republished an advisory detailing remote integer‑overflow vulnerabilities that affect a broad set of Siemens networking and communication modules — SIMATIC NET CP, SINEMA Remote Connect Server, and many SCALANCE and RUGGEDCOM devices — and operators must treat the...

Siemens and upstream OpenSSL vulnerabilities that allow out-of-bounds reads — tracked under CVE-2021-3712 — remain a live operational risk across dozens of Siemens industrial networking, communications, and automation products; Siemens has published ProductCERT guidance and fixes for many...

A newly disclosed Cross‑Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability, tracked as CVE‑2025‑7746, affects a broad set of Schneider Electric Altivar drives and modules — including the ATVdPAC module (fixed in VW3A3530D version 25.0), multiple Altivar Process and Machine drives, and the ILC992 InterLink...

When Windows refuses to finish an upgrade, the experience quickly moves from annoying to terrifying: cryptic error codes, long rollbacks, and the gnawing fear of lost files. Millions of Windows users have lived through that loop; the good news is that most upgrade failures are diagnosable and...

Siemens has published a security advisory (SSA-027652) describing a privilege‑escalation vulnerability in its SINAMICS drive family that allows a factory reset and configuration manipulation without the required privileges, and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)...

Schneider Electric has confirmed a security issue affecting the Modicon M340 family and two Ethernet communication modules — BMXNOE0100 and BMXNOE0110 — that can expose files or directories to external parties and, in some configurations, can prevent firmware updates or disrupt the embedded...

If one AirPod suddenly goes silent, the cause is almost always one of a few predictable culprits: a drained battery, clogged speaker mesh or charging contact, a Bluetooth/profile mismatch, or a software/firmware glitch. This deep-dive guide walks through quick fixes you can try right now and...

Rockwell Automation’s 1783‑NATR I/O adapter has been flagged by CISA as vulnerable to a third‑party component flaw that can cause memory corruption, carrying a CVSS v4 base score of 6.9 and described as remotely exploitable with low attack complexity — operators should treat it as an immediate...

Microsoft and Phison have now all but closed the book on the late‑August panic: after weeks of community reports, lab reproductions and headlines warning that Windows 11 24H2’s August cumulative (KB5063878) was “bricking” SSDs, thorough vendor and Microsoft testing found no reproducible link...

Phison has publicly acknowledged and replicated a key finding first raised by the PCDIY community: a wave of disappearing and allegedly “bricked” NVMe SSDs linked in timing to Windows 11’s August cumulative update (KB5063878) appears to have been driven, in at least some test cases, by...

When a compact, industrial-strength receipt printer like the BIXOLON SRP‑275III refuses to print on a Windows 10 PC, the result is immediate friction at the point of sale — lost orders, annoyed customers, and frantic searches for a manual or the “right” driver. This feature unpacks the...

Microsoft has concluded its investigation into the mid‑August reports that a recent Windows 11 security rollup (commonly tracked as KB5063878) “bricked” or corrupted some SSDs, saying it found no reproducible link between the update and the wave of drive disappearances — a position echoed by SSD...