Microsoft’s August Patchday reads like a wake‑up call: a newly disclosed Kerberos-related weakness tied to the delegated Managed Service Account (dMSA) feature in Windows Server 2025 can — under the right conditions — let an attacker escalate to domain‑admin control, and a clutch of additional...
Microsoft's August security rollup is one of those months that makes system administrators stop what they're doing and triage: this Patch Tuesday delivered fixes for a broad sweep of vulnerabilities across Windows, Exchange, Azure and related services — including a publicly disclosed Kerberos...
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...
Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday is a heavyweight release: Redmond shipped fixes for more than a hundred security flaws, closed a clutch of high‑severity remote code execution and privilege‑escalation defects, and bundled new Windows 11 quality and AI‑adjacent features that will change how some...
Microsoft pushed its August Patch Tuesday cumulative updates on August 12–13, 2025, delivering the monthly security rollups that fix a broad range of vulnerabilities across Windows client and server platforms—most notably a publicly disclosed privilege‑escalation bug in Windows Kerberos...
Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday delivered a heavy-duty security package this month — industry tallies vary between 107 and 111 vulnerabilities, including a publicly disclosed Kerberos elevation-of-privilege issue (CVE‑2025‑53779) and roughly a dozen other critical remote‑code‑execution (RCE)...
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...
Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists CVE-2025-53778 as an improper authentication vulnerability in the Windows NTLM implementation that can allow an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network, and administrators should treat it as a high-priority authentication risk until every...
Integrating a Windows 11 computer into an Active Directory (AD) environment represents an essential pillar for IT management in modern organizations. While home users might never encounter the need to join a domain, in business, education, and enterprise settings, domain integration is...
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A pivotal security development has emerged from the world of enterprise identity management: a critical flaw has been identified in delegated Managed Service Accounts (dMSA) within Windows Server 2025. This vulnerability, discovered and named the “Golden dMSA” attack by Semperis security...
As of now, there is no detailed reference to CVE-2025-48823 specifically in the major Windows security forums or the provided internal sources. However, based on the vulnerability class and similar recent Windows Cryptographic Services information disclosure issues, a typical scenario involves...
NTLM relay attacks, once thought to be a relic of the past, have re-emerged as a significant threat in modern Active Directory environments. Despite years of research and incremental security improvements, most enterprise domains remain susceptible to these attacks, creating wide-reaching risks...
Recent developments in Windows Server 2025 security have placed a new and formidable threat—dubbed “BadSuccessor”—at the center of administrator and cybersecurity discussions worldwide. This privilege escalation technique, uncovered by Akamai researchers and rapidly highlighted by the security...
Few updates in Windows ecosystems are as silently critical—and often misunderstood—as the so-called "Dynamic Updates." Last week, Microsoft quietly pushed out two new Dynamic Update packages for Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025: KB5060614 (Setup Dynamic Update) and KB5059693 (Safe OS...
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Microsoft's recent updates to Windows 11 version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 introduce several features and enhancements aimed at bolstering security and improving system management. However, some of these additions necessitate careful evaluation to ensure they align with organizational...
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Problems facing IT administrators are as perennial as the operating systems they manage, but few things send a chill through the enterprise like a Windows Server authentication failure precipitated by a routine update. Windows Server, the backbone of IT infrastructure for countless organizations...
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The latest threat to Windows security—CVE-2025-24054—has thrust NTLM (NT LAN Manager) authentication back into the cybersecurity spotlight, exposing both the fragility of long-standing authentication mechanisms and the urgent need for modernization in enterprise architectures. As organizations...
Windows security practitioners and enterprise administrators are confronting a rapidly evolving threat landscape, with a new vulnerability—CVE-2025-24054—exposing critical cracks in the armor of legacy NTLM authentication. As disclosures mount and unofficial fixes surface ahead of the official...
The end of an era is approaching for Windows 10 users, a reality made explicit by Microsoft’s recent announcement regarding its official support schedule. As of October 14, 2025, Windows 10 will no longer receive free software updates, security fixes, or official technical support from...
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