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Fourteen years after Windows 10 first shipped and exactly on schedule, Microsoft pulled the plug on mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 — and that has a lot of users suddenly asking whether their machines can actually be upgraded to Windows 11 despite a “This PC can’t run...

Microsoft has confirmed what many in the Windows ecosystem already feared: Windows 11, version 23H2 (Home and Pro) will stop receiving security updates after November 11, 2025, which leaves anyone still running that consumer release exposed to unpatched vulnerabilities and compels an upgrade to...

The discovery and public disclosure of CVE‑2025‑47827 — a Secure Boot bypass in IGEL OS versions before 11 — has forced a re‑examination of how the boot‑time trust chain is implemented in thin‑client deployments, and it has produced immediate operational consequences for administrators who still...

Microsoft has confirmed a Windows BitLocker security feature bypass tracked as CVE-2025-55332, and the advisory — backed by third‑party aggregators — describes an issue that allows an attacker with physical access to influence BitLocker’s boot or recovery decision logic and bypass protections...

Microsoft’s security advisory for CVE-2025-55338 describes a new BitLocker weakness that allows a physical attacker to bypass a BitLocker security control by exploiting an inability to patch certain ROM-level code used during the boot/recovery process — a security‑feature bypass with meaningful...

Microsoft’s new Windows Configuration System (WinCS) support for Secure Boot gives domain administrators a third, scripted path to apply Microsoft’s Secure Boot certificate updates at scale — a pragmatic addition to the existing Windows Update and manual firmware-update approaches, but one that...

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...

A critical flaw affecting AMD’s SEV‑SNP trusted‑execution path has been publicly disclosed and tracked as CVE‑2025‑0033: a race condition during Reverse Map Table (RMP) initialization that lets a malicious hypervisor corrupt RMP entries and void the integrity guarantees of SEV‑SNP guests. This...

When an upgrade to Windows 11 25H2 stalls with a dialog saying an NVMe SSD is “not compatible” and the update is postponed, it’s not random noise — this is a deliberate compatibility safeguard tied to a recurring Host Memory Buffer (HMB) interaction that first surfaced during the 24H2 rollout...

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint began firing repeated alerts telling users to update Dell machines’ BIOS — a false positive caused by a logic bug in Defender’s vulnerability-fetching code — and although Microsoft says a fix has been developed, administrators are left juggling alert fatigue...

When Windows refuses to upgrade—stalling at “Checking for updates,” rolling back with an opaque error code, or simply refusing to offer Windows 11 at all—the frustration is immediate and real. The four troubleshooting “secrets” popularized in a recent ZDNET guide—(1) update firmware and drivers...

The AutomationDirect CLICK PLUS family of PLCs has been placed squarely in the spotlight after a U.S. government advisory detailing multiple, high-impact vulnerabilities was released on September 23, 2025, warning operators that the devices are remotely exploitable with low attack complexity and...

CISA’s release of six Industrial Control Systems advisories on September 23, 2025, spotlights a fresh wave of vulnerabilities affecting widely deployed PLCs, RTUs, and gateway devices from AutomationDirect, Mitsubishi Electric, Schneider Electric, Viessmann (Vitogate 300), and Hitachi Energy — a...

Microsoft’s September preview update pushed an urgent reminder to IT teams and advanced users: Secure Boot certificates used broadly across Windows devices are scheduled to start expiring in June 2026, and without coordinated firmware and OS updates some machines may be unable to boot securely...

The first time you boot the Xbox full‑screen experience on a handheld Windows PC it feels, in practice, like someone surgically replaced the Windows desktop with a console‑style launcher — and the early hands‑on tests show that this is less about eye candy and more about real resource...

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...

Microsoft released a targeted hotpatch—KB5065474—on September 9, 2025, for Windows 11 Enterprise (24H2 / LTSC 2024) that advances eligible devices to OS Build 26100.6508, delivers a focused app-compatibility / UAC repair, and includes two operational advisories administrators must treat as high...

CISA’s September 18 bulletin published nine new Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories that affect a broad cross-section of OT vendors — from industrial networking stacks to remote terminal units, asset-management suites, machine-vision firmware, and industry-specific protocols —...

Westermo’s industrial networking OS, WeOS 5, contains a remote-denial vulnerability that can trigger an immediate reboot when the device is configured for IPsec and sent a carefully crafted Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) packet — an issue tracked as CVE‑2025‑46419 and documented by both...

Westermo’s WeOS 5 series has a newly disclosed high‑severity vulnerability that deserves immediate attention from industrial network operators and Windows network teams responsible for OT‑IT convergence, because it can be used to inject operating‑system commands when an attacker can reach an...