incident response

  1. Copilot Audit-Log Gap: Prompts That Skip Purview Entries Revealed

    A security researcher’s routine Copilot query revealed a startling blind spot in Microsoft’s logging: under certain prompts, Copilot could return file summaries without leaving the expected Purview audit entry — and, according to the researcher, Microsoft quietly rolled out a fix without issuing...
  2. Copilot Audit Gaps in Microsoft 365: Forensics and Compliance Risks

    Microsoft’s Copilot may have closed an eye‑catching zero‑click hole, but a quieter — and arguably more dangerous — problem has been bubbling under the surface: Copilot and related AI components are not reliably creating the audit trails organizations depend on for compliance and forensics. That...
  3. CISA Adds CVE-2025-54948 to KEV: Trend Micro Apex One OS Command Injection

    CISA has formally added CVE-2025-54948 — a critical OS command injection in Trend Micro Apex One’s on‑premises Management Console — to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation and triggering accelerated remediation expectations for federal...
  4. Identity Data Breaches, NFC Relay Attacks, and Biometric Regulation in FinTech Security

    Last week’s headlines brought a stark reminder that identity is the new battlefield: a major US credit union disclosed a breach that exposed entire customer identity kits, researchers revealed Android malware weaponizing NFC to enable real-time payment fraud, UK regulators tightened the rules on...
  5. CVPeople Tanzania Hiring 23 Junior IT Support Technicians for Airport Biometric Enrollment

    CVPeople Tanzania has posted a large intake for frontline IT staff: 23 Junior IT Support Technicians to be based at Dar es Salaam airports, with the roles reporting to an Airport IT Supervisor and explicitly tasked with supporting immigration and passenger-enrolment systems. The listing —...
  6. OT Cyber Risk 2025: Reducing Critical Infrastructure Exposure to Ransomware

    The Colonial Pipeline blackout of May 2021 remains a cautionary touchstone: ransomware that began in corporate IT cascaded into physical shortages and public alarm, a stark demonstration that operational technology (OT) insecurity costs more than data — it can disrupt energy, water, food and...
  7. August Patch Tuesday 2025: BadSuccessor Kerberos, Exchange Hybrid RCEs, Office Preview Pane Risks

    Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday is one of the heavier maintenance cycles of the year: the company released patches addressing well over a hundred vulnerabilities across Windows, Office, Exchange, SQL Server and Azure services, and security teams must triage a short list of immediate priorities...
  8. CVE-2024-8894: Siemens COMOS at Risk from ODA SDK Exploit

    Siemens' COMOS engineering platform is again at the center of vendor and national cybersecurity advisories after an out‑of‑bounds write in a third‑party graphics library — tracked as CVE‑2024‑8894 — was linked to COMOS deployments and republished by authorities, raising fresh questions about...
  9. CVE-2025-7972: Patch FactoryTalk Linx Node_ENV Bypass with v6.50

    A recently republished CISA advisory warns that Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk Linx contains a serious improper access control flaw that—when triggered by setting Node.js’ process.env.NODE_ENV to "development"—can disable FTSP token validation and allow an attacker to create, update, or...
  10. Quick Machine Recovery: Cloud-Powered Windows 11 Fleet Remediation

    Microsoft’s new Quick Machine Recovery (QMR) is not just a cosmetic tweak to the recovery menu — it rethinks how Windows 11 responds to catastrophic boot failures by taking the recovery process online, automating diagnosis and remediation, and giving IT teams a far faster path out of mass-outage...
  11. Mitigate CVE-2025-7353: Secure Rockwell 1756 EN Modules

    Rockwell Automation’s ControlLogix EtherNet/IP communication modules have been publicly flagged for a high-severity vulnerability that, if left unaddressed, can grant remote attackers direct, low-complexity access to a running module’s memory — enabling memory dumps, arbitrary memory...
  12. KB5063880 for Windows Server 2022: Netlogon hardening, SSU+LCU, Secure Boot expiry

    August 12’s cumulative rollup for Windows Server 2022 (KB5063880, OS Build 20348.4052) is a pivotal update that continues Microsoft’s multi-year campaign to harden identity and boot integrity in Windows environments—most notably by reinforcing the Microsoft RPC Netlogon protocol against...
  13. August 2025 Patch Tuesday: Kerberos EoP, Graphics RCEs, and Urgent Windows Fixes

    Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday closed a dangerous mix of high‑impact remote code execution (RCE) flaws and a publicly disclosed Kerberos elevation‑of‑privilege (EoP) vulnerability that together raise the operational urgency for domain controllers, document‑processing servers, and any service...
  14. Windows 11 Event 2042: Ignore the firewall log noise until the fix lands

    Microsoft is again telling Windows 11 users to “ignore” a worrying-looking Event Viewer message after another round of updates and rollback confusion left Event ID 2042 entries populating security logs — a problem traced to an under-development firewall feature rather than a malfunctioning...
  15. CVE-2025-49736: Edge for Android UI Spoofing — Impact & Patch Guide

    CVE-2025-49736 — Microsoft Edge (Chromium) for Android: UI‑spoofing / “UI performs the wrong action” vulnerability A deep-dive explainer, impact assessment, and practical mitigation checklist Summary Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists CVE‑2025‑49736 as affecting Microsoft Edge...
  16. CVE-2025-48807: Patch Hyper-V Local Code Execution via VSP Channels

    Windows Hyper‑V contains a vulnerability tracked as CVE‑2025‑48807 that, according to the vendor advisory, stems from improper restriction of a Hyper‑V communication channel to its intended endpoints and can be abused by an authorized attacker to execute code locally on an affected host. This...
  17. Urgent CVE-2025-53793: Azure Stack Hub Info Disclosure — Admin Actions

    Title: Urgent: CVE-2025-53793 — Azure Stack Hub “Improper Authentication” Information Disclosure (what admins need to know and do) Lede Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-53793 describing an “improper authentication” vulnerability in Azure Stack Hub that can allow an...
  18. CVE-2025-53788: WSL2 TOCTOU Privilege Escalation Patch & Guidance

    Title: CVE-2025-53788 — What the WSL2 TOCTOU kernel vulnerability means for Windows users (deep technical briefing + practical guidance) Executive summary On August 2025’s Patch cycle Microsoft confirmed a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) kernel security fix identified as CVE‑2025‑53788...
  19. CVE-2025-50155: Local Privilege Escalation in Windows Push Notifications (Type Confusion)

    Microsoft’s Security Response Center (MSRC) has cataloged CVE-2025-50155 as an Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability in the Windows Push Notifications Apps component described as “Access of resource using incompatible type (‘type confusion’).” The issue allows an authorized local attacker —...
  20. CVE-2025-53779: Kerberos Relative Path Traversal — Urgent Patch Guide

    Microsoft’s security advisory confirms a new Kerberos vulnerability — CVE-2025-53779 — described as a relative path traversal flaw in Windows Kerberos that can be abused by an authorized attacker over a network to elevate privileges, and organizations that rely on Kerberos-based authentication...