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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On October 14, 2025, support for Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019 ends — one month from now — and organizations that delay face escalating operational risk, loss of security updates, and an increasingly narrow set of safe upgrade paths. Microsoft’s Exchange engineering team has...
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Sixty days may feel like a lot — until you remember the work still required to move millions of endpoints off an operating system that will stop receiving free security updates on October 14, 2025. Background
Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025...
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When considering disaster resilience for Microsoft 365, the discussion often revolves around infrastructure, backup, and failover. However, insight from leading industry experts reveals a more foundational vulnerability—identity. At a pivotal summit hosted by Virtualization & Cloud Review, IT...
As the countdown to the end of Windows 10 support accelerates, enterprise IT leaders find themselves at a crossroads: how to transition quickly and securely to Windows 11 while modernizing management practices for the demands of cloud-first organizations. Microsoft, recognizing both the...
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A wave of unease swept through global IT circles following reports of a sophisticated cyber attack targeting Microsoft SharePoint servers—an incident confirmed by Microsoft itself and now reverberating across thousands of organizations worldwide. The scale, details, and implications of the...
In July 2025, Microsoft disclosed a critical zero-day vulnerability in its on-premises SharePoint Server, identified as CVE-2025-53770. This flaw, with a CVSS score of 9.8, allows unauthenticated remote code execution, enabling attackers to gain full control over affected servers. The...
Microsoft has recently issued an urgent alert regarding active cyberattacks targeting on-premises SharePoint servers, a critical platform for document sharing and collaboration within organizations. These attacks exploit a previously unknown "zero-day" vulnerability, designated as...
Microsoft’s security response apparatus was put to the test yet again this July, following the public disclosure and exploitation of multiple high-severity vulnerabilities impacting on-premises SharePoint Server deployments across a spectrum of enterprise, government, and regulated industries...
On July 21, 2025, Microsoft issued an urgent alert regarding active cyberattacks exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in its on-premises SharePoint server software. This flaw enables authorized attackers to perform spoofing attacks over a network, potentially allowing them to masquerade as...
In recent days, a significant cybersecurity incident has emerged, targeting Microsoft SharePoint servers worldwide. This attack exploits a newly identified vulnerability, CVE-2025-53770, allowing unauthorized remote code execution on on-premises SharePoint servers. The breach has affected...
For millions of business professionals and personal users worldwide, Microsoft Outlook is more than an email client—it's an essential productivity tool. So when Outlook, formerly known as Hotmail, suffers a widespread outage, the reverberations are felt across industries and continents...
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On July 9, 2025, at approximately 10:20 PM UTC, Microsoft Outlook experienced a significant global outage, leaving millions of users unable to access their email accounts across web, desktop, and mobile platforms. Scope and Impact of the Outage
The disruption affected users worldwide, with...
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Microsoft’s cloud-based Outlook service ground to a halt late Wednesday, triggering a massive global outage that underscored just how vulnerable the modern world’s productivity infrastructure can be. For more than 19 hours, millions of people relying on Outlook.com, Outlook for desktop clients...
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A critical security vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-49704, has been discovered in Microsoft SharePoint Server, posing significant risks to organizations worldwide. This flaw allows authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely, potentially leading to unauthorized access, data...
Here is information about CVE-2025-49703 based on your source:
CVE-2025-49703: Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Type: Remote Code Execution (RCE)
Component: Microsoft Office Word
Vulnerability: Use-after-free
Impact: Allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally on...
Here’s a summary of CVE-2025-48002 based on the information you provided:
CVE ID: CVE-2025-48002
Component: Windows Hyper-V
Type: Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Technical Cause: Integer overflow or wraparound
Attack Vector: Allows an authorized attacker to disclose information over an...
In a recent blog post titled "Microsoft Dependency Has Risks," Czech developer and penetration tester Miroslav Homer presents a compelling argument about the strategic vulnerabilities organizations face due to heavy reliance on Microsoft products and services. Homer's analysis is particularly...
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A critical vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-47166, has been discovered in Microsoft SharePoint Server, posing significant security risks to organizations utilizing this platform. This flaw arises from the deserialization of untrusted data, enabling authenticated attackers to execute...
An out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the Windows Storage Management Provider, recently identified as CVE-2025-33055, has raised significant concerns for organizations and individuals relying on Microsoft's storage infrastructure tools. With Microsoft formally assigning the vulnerability a...