network security

If you’ve ever wondered whether the relics of IT’s past can come back to haunt you, look no further than NTLM authentication—a sort of ancient curse that’s less Indiana Jones and more Office Space. Windows still ships with this timeworn authentication protocol enabled by default. While it was a...

If you’ve ever cursed your Wi-Fi as you wandered to the farthest reaches of your workspace—likely clutching a laptop, mumbling to yourself, “I just want to send one email, not explore the deep web”—the promise of high-performing, business-grade access points isn’t theoretical nostalgia. Enter...

When Microsoft stamped its latest security vulnerability as low risk, they probably didn’t expect hackers to treat it like Black Friday at a bug bazaar. Turning "Low Risk" into Worldwide Mayhem: The Unlikely Rise of CVE-2025-24054 On March 11—just another Patch Tuesday in corporate IT...

For Microsoft, the quest for a secure digital future isn’t just a poster in the break room or a feel-good mantra recited at quarterly all-hands meetings—it’s an obsession, a juggernaut of an engineering exercise, and an ever-evolving global chess match with adversaries whose job descriptions...

It’s not every day you get the chance to unbox a Wi-Fi access point that promises to straddle the line between no-nonsense small business hardware and the slick, sophisticated needs of the modern home office. Yet, there I was, staring down the angular visage of the Netgear WAX220—Netgear’s...

From now on, rogue update servers masquerading as legitimate sources on unmanaged Macs will find themselves ghosted. Source: Neowin Microsoft AutoUpdate tightens security around ManifestServer setting for Macs

If your smart home budget is falling victim to subscription creep, you’re not alone. Each month, another little chunk peels off your hard-earned savings to pay for cloud storage, ad-blockers, media streaming, finance apps, or that “premium” password manager you only seem to use begrudgingly. But...

Legacy authentication protocols rarely make the news for good reasons, and yet here we are—NTLM is back in the headlines, but not for a nostalgia tour. Instead, it’s at the center of a renewed wave of cyber-attacks, reminding enterprise IT pros (and anyone reckless enough to run a Windows...

They beckon seductively from restaurant tabletops, leap out at us from bus ads, and dangle from the bottom of suspicious emails like a worm on a fishing line—QR codes, those enigmatic square mazes of pixels, are now as much a fixture of daily life as the coffee-ring stains around them. Yet...

If you thought your inbox was dangerous before, wait until you meet the humble .library-ms file, reimagined as the ultimate digital Trojan horse. If there’s one thing we’ve all learned from years of increasingly creative phishing attacks, it’s that cybercriminals will use any means possible to...

The latest addition to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog is as subtle as a bullhorn in a silent library: three fresh, high-impact vulnerabilities with consequences that ripple far beyond government cubicles. If you...

Even the most unassuming boxes hiding away in locked industrial cabinets get their day in the cybersecurity spotlight, and today, the unblinking gaze is turned on the Schneider Electric Sage Series. If you had “vulnerabilities in remote terminal units” on your bingo card—even if you didn’t—strap...

Take a moment to imagine an industrial control room—the hum of hardware, the glow of screens, reams of data painting the story of a power plant, factory, or water treatment facility in real time. Now, imagine the unsung heroes at the center of it all: Yokogawa recorder products. For engineers...

Eight in the morning at your average critical infrastructure plant: the sweet serenade of humming motors, flashing status lights, and, somewhere deep in the control network, the silent scream of a security vulnerability newly discovered. This time, the haunting culprit is none other than the...

North winds carry more than just Poland’s infamous cold: as March 2025 would have it, they swept in a fresh surge of NTLM hash theft, thrusting CVE-2025-24054 into the glaring spotlight of cybersecurity’s main stage. Weeks before most CIOs had even had their coffee, threat actors were already...

In recent weeks, IT administrators have been blindsided by an unexpected twist in their Windows update strategy: Windows 11 began appearing on machines explicitly marked ineligible for the upgrade. A latent Intune bug ignored rollout blocks, making feature updates available to desktop devices...

The Mysterious “inetpub” Folder: Unpacking Microsoft’s Odd New Security Fix in Windows A Curious Intruder: The Unexpected Arrival of a Folder For the millions who rely on Windows to go about their digital days, the discovery of unfamiliar files or folders after a major system update can prompt...

Microsoft Vulnerabilities Surge to Record High in 2024: A Deep Dive into the Security Landscape In an unprecedented cybersecurity challenge, 2024 has marked the year Microsoft faced an extraordinary number of vulnerabilities across its vast software and operating system ecosystem. This surge not...

Network Profile Keeps Changing Automatically on Windows 11: Comprehensive Analysis and Solutions Windows 11 users have reported a frustrating issue where their network profile switches automatically between Public and Private without user consent. This changing network profile can cause a...

Microsoft Power Automate Desktop Information Disclosure Vulnerability: A Deep Dive into CVE-2025-29817 In the constantly evolving landscape of cybersecurity, even the most powerful automation tools can become points of vulnerability. Microsoft Power Automate Desktop, a flagship solution for task...