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Microsoft’s December Patch Tuesday cumulative updates have broken Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) for many enterprise environments, and — unusually — the vendor’s public guidance directs affected organizations to open a business support case rather than publish a one‑size‑fits‑all mitigation in...

Microsoft’s December security rollup has disabled Message Queuing (MSMQ) on a subset of legacy and enterprise Windows systems, leaving queues inactive, IIS sites throwing “Insufficient resources to perform operation” errors, and critical message pipelines broken until organizations choose...

Microsoft’s December Patchday produced an unexpected operational hazard for Message Queuing (MSMQ): a change to the MSMQ security model and NTFS permissions introduced with the December 9, 2025 cumulative updates can prevent applications and IIS sites from writing to message queues, causing...

Microsoft has added CVE-2025-62472 to its Security Update Guide: a newly cataloged elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability in the Windows Remote Access Connection Manager (RasMan) that — according to vendor metadata — stems from a use‑of‑uninitialized resource and can allow a local, authorized user...

Microsoft’s November Patch Tuesday landed a high‑urgency security wake‑up call: a critical heap‑based buffer overflow in the Microsoft Graphics Component (GDI+) — tracked as CVE‑2025‑60724 — plus multiple browser and Office fixes that together widen the attack surface for both consumer PCs and...

Windows 11 users on recent preview builds are reporting a strange and persistent regression: closing Task Manager with the window “X” sometimes does not terminate taskmgr.exe, and each reopen can spawn another live Task Manager process — producing dozens of background taskmgr.exe instances that...

Microsoft’s October cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5066835) promised security hardening and quality fixes — but instead delivered a trio of high-impact regressions that forced an emergency out‑of‑band response and left local web services and recovery workflows in limbo for many users and...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas browser, YouTube’s new Shorts time‑limit, Mozilla’s experimental new‑tab widgets, a Wikimedia Foundation warning about falling human pageviews, and two consequential Windows 11 security regressions together make October’s tech headlines a compact snapshot of 2025’s biggest...

Microsoft shipped a security-focused cumulative on October 14 that was supposed to harden Windows 11 — and within days a wave of breakages ranging from developer tooling to the recovery environment forced an emergency out‑of‑band patch and a lot of frantic troubleshooting across desktops and...

South Africa’s Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DoJ&CD) has confirmed a widespread outage after a recent Windows 11 security rollup created a system-level fault that rendered multiple departmental services inoperable, with restoration work expected to continue for days or...

Microsoft has acknowledged a serious regression in its October 14, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5066835) and is rolling an emergency fix after the patch broke two very different but critical areas of the platform: local HTTP/2 (localhost) connections used by developers and many...

Microsoft’s October cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5066835) created an urgent problem for many users and IT teams by rendering the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) non‑interactive: after installing the update, USB keyboards and mice stopped responding inside WinRE while continuing to...

Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday landed as a watershed software-security event: the company shipped fixes for an extraordinarily large set of vulnerabilities — widely reported as between 167 and 175 CVEs in a single cycle — including multiple actively exploited zero‑day elevation‑of‑privilege...

BornCity — known in English as Born's IT and Windows Blog — has quietly become one of the most reliable German-language trackers of Microsoft servicing drama in 2025, producing timely, technically detailed coverage of everything from the Windows 10 end-of-support transition to errant cumulative...

Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday landed like a hammer on an already fraught moment for Windows administrators: the last routine cumulative update that includes Windows 10 coincided with a sweeping security roll-up that patched scores of vulnerabilities, closed multiple zero‑day exploits, and —...

Microsoft’s October security roll-up closed a critical local code-execution pathway in Internet Information Services (IIS) tied to legacy Inbox COM Objects after the vendor assigned CVE-2025-59282 to a race‑condition / use‑after‑free defect that can be abused to run arbitrary code when the...

Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday landed with unusual force: this month’s rollup patches a sweeping 172 vulnerabilities across Windows and related products, fixes multiple zero‑day flaws that were already under attack, removes a legacy modem driver that posed a real operational trade‑off, and...

Microsoft’s October security updates close a path to system instability in the DirectX graphics stack: CVE-2025-55698 is a null pointer dereference in the DirectX Graphics Kernel that can be triggered remotely by an authenticated, low-privileged attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) and...

Microsoft’s Security Update Guide has cataloged CVE-2025-59280 as a Windows SMB Client tampering vulnerability that Microsoft classifies as an improper authentication issue; the entry and October patch cycle place this defect squarely in the family of SMB/NTLM authentication weaknesses...

Microsoft released a security update addressing CVE-2025-59201, a high‑impact elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability in the Network Connection Status Indicator (NCSI) component that allows an authorized local user with low privileges to escalate to higher system privileges, and administrators must...