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Microsoft’s May 2025 Patch Tuesday stands as a stark reminder of the ever-escalating cybersecurity arms race, where threat actors continuously seek to exploit cracks in even the world’s most widely used enterprise platforms. With 78 vulnerabilities patched—among them no fewer than five actively...

In the wake of the May 2025 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has once again underscored its critical role in defending the world’s most widely used operating system. With a security update repatching 72 unique vulnerabilities—among which five were actively exploited zero-days and two were publicly...

Microsoft's recent patches for Windows 11 24H2, notably April’s cumulative update KB5055523 and March’s preview update KB5053656, have unfortunately reintroduced a spectrum of severe issues—including system crashes manifested as Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) errors—highlighting ongoing challenges...

Microsoft’s April 2025 update for Windows 11 has ignited a surprising debate within the Windows community due to the reappearance of an empty folder called "inetpub" on users' system drives. This folder, historically tied to Internet Information Services (IIS)—Microsoft's web server platform—is...

Microsoft’s March 2025 Patch Tuesday delivered a batch of bug fixes addressing numerous vulnerabilities across Windows platforms. Among these, a critical and underestimated flaw, CVE-2025-24054, quickly shifted from a “less likely to be exploited” risk to an active weaponized exploit targeting...

Microsoft's recent patching history for Windows has been marked by a flurry of disruptions, particularly revolving around Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) sessions—a core feature in enterprise IT for remote management and work. The latest episode involves a critical freezing bug affecting Windows...

Microsoft has recently confirmed a significant performance issue affecting the classic Outlook client, where users experience unexpected spikes in CPU usage, sometimes reaching 30 to 50 percent, along with increased power consumption. This bug, reported by users since late 2024 and observed on...

Microsoft's March 11 Patch Tuesday rollout, a cornerstone event for Windows security, included a critical fix for an NTLM hash-leaking vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-24054. Initially, Microsoft had rated this vulnerability as "less likely" to be exploited, but swift real-world attacks have...

The Mysterious “inetpub” Folder: An Unexpected Windows 11 Quirk Windows 11 users have recently encountered an unexpected twist following the cumulative update KB5055523—a seemingly innocuous yet puzzling folder named “inetpub” appearing on the C drive. This odd discovery, highlighted by multiple...

Windows Server 2025 administrators and IT professionals are currently grappling with a critical and nuanced issue that has emerged following the installation of recent updates, particularly surrounding domain controllers and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) sessions. This problem has multifaceted...

Windows Server 2025, Microsoft's latest server operating system, is currently grappling with a series of critical issues following recent security updates. Among the most pressing is a domain controller bug triggered by a firewall profile misapplication after a server reboot, alongside a...

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday on March 11, 2025, delivered a broad array of bug fixes across its Windows ecosystem, notably including a vulnerability that had been underestimated in its exploitation potential. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-24054, concerns a critical security gap within the Windows...

Windows Server 2025, the much-anticipated next-generation server OS from Microsoft, has stepped squarely into the limelight for all the wrong reasons. What should have been a routine cycle of security and feature updates in early 2025 turned overnight into a frustrating, high-stakes test for IT...

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday on March 11, 2025, introduced crucial security updates, among them a vulnerability labeled CVE-2025-24054 impacting the NTLM authentication protocol. Though Microsoft initially rated this vulnerability as "less likely" to be exploited, reality quickly contradicted that...

When Typing an Email Turns Your CPU into a Furnace: Unpacking the Latest Outlook Bug Picture this: you’re drafting a simple email in the classic Outlook for Microsoft 365, and suddenly your computer sounds like a jet engine taking off. Your CPU usage spikes wildly, soaring to 30-50% utilization...

The recent appearance of an empty "inetpub" folder on Windows systems following the April 2025 cumulative update has sparked considerable discussion and confusion among users and IT professionals alike. While at first glance this folder might seem like an innocuous or even unnecessary artifact...

Microsoft's recent efforts to patch Windows systems against a critical elevation-of-privilege vulnerability, CVE-2025-21204, have introduced an unexpected and somewhat controversial element—a mysterious "inetpub" folder that appears on nearly all updated Windows machines, even those not running...

Microsoft’s recent patch efforts have finally addressed a critical Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) bug that had been plaguing Windows 11 version 24H2 and the new Windows Server 2025 builds since early 2025. This flaw, introduced by a February update (KB5051987), caused remote desktop sessions to...

Windows 11 continues to surprise its users. The latest April 2025 cumulative update—KB5055523—has introduced an unexpected twist: the creation of an empty "inetpub" folder in the root of the C: drive, even on systems where Internet Information Services (IIS) is not installed. While the folder’s...

The emergence of the "inetpub" folder in Windows systems, particularly following the April 2025 cumulative update for Windows 10 and Windows 11, is a fascinating and important development in Microsoft's ongoing battle to fortify operating system security. Although at first glance this folder...