patch management

A surprising headline claiming a “shock revival” of Windows 7 has spread through the tech press and social feeds as the industry counts down to Windows 10’s end-of-support milestone — but a careful look at the telemetry, vendor positions, and third‑party patching activity shows a far more...

Microsoft has assigned CVE-2025-59251 to a newly disclosed remote code execution vulnerability in the Chromium‑based Microsoft Edge browser that, according to vendor advisories and public trackers, can be triggered by specially crafted web content and requires prompt patching to mitigate a...

Schneider Electric has published a coordinated security update after a high‑impact local flaw in its Software Update component (SESU) was assigned CVE‑2025‑5296 — a CWE‑59: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access (‘link following’) issue that affects SESU versions prior to 3.0.12 and...

CISA’s new advisory on an incident response engagement lays out a blunt, actionable set of lessons from a compromise that began with a public-facing GeoServer being exploited for remote code execution—and the takeaways should be required reading for any defender running internet-facing services...

CISA’s new advisory is a blunt wake-up call: an endpoint detection and response (EDR) alert at a federal agency triggered an incident response engagement that exposed avoidable failures in patch management, incident response readiness, and threat monitoring—root causes that enabled attackers to...

Microsoft’s decision to end routine security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has pushed an already fraught conversation about hardware lifecycles, planned obsolescence, and user choice into the open — and retailers and refurbishers are responding with an unexpected pivot: turn that...

Google’s September stable update for Chrome closed a notable Use‑After‑Free (UAF) in the Dawn WebGPU implementation — tracked as CVE‑2025‑10500 — alongside several other high‑severity graphics and engine fixes; Windows users and administrators running Microsoft Edge (Chromium‑based) should treat...

Google pushed an emergency Chrome update to address CVE-2025-10585, a type confusion vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine that Google says is being actively exploited in the wild — and because Microsoft Edge is Chromium-based, Windows users and enterprises must confirm their Edge builds...

Windows 10 reaches a hard stop on October 14, 2025 — after that date Microsoft will no longer deliver routine security updates, feature patches, or technical support for the mainstream editions — and every Windows 10 PC owner needs a realistic plan now to avoid rapid security and compatibility...

Microsoft has set a hard deadline: on October 14, 2025, routine security updates and mainstream support end for Windows 10 (version 22H2) and for perpetual releases Office 2016 and Office 2019 — a coordinated sunset that forces consumers and organizations to choose between upgrading, buying...

Microsoft released a targeted hotpatch—KB5065474—on September 9, 2025, for Windows 11 Enterprise (24H2 / LTSC 2024) that advances eligible devices to OS Build 26100.6508, delivers a focused app-compatibility / UAC repair, and includes two operational advisories administrators must treat as high...

Microsoft’s advisory for CVE-2025-59216 describes a race-condition vulnerability in the Windows Graphics Component that can allow an authenticated local attacker to elevate privileges if they can win a timing window. Executive summary What it is: CVE-2025-59216 is a “concurrent execution using...

CISA’s September 18 bulletin published nine new Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories that affect a broad cross-section of OT vendors — from industrial networking stacks to remote terminal units, asset-management suites, machine-vision firmware, and industry-specific protocols —...

Hitachi Energy’s Service Suite is the subject of a high‑severity security advisory republished by vendor PSIRT and reflected in government guidance: a deserialization flaw tied to Oracle WebLogic (CVE‑2020‑2883) is implicated in the Service Suite advisory, and the combined risk profile is rated...

Hitachi Energy’s Asset Suite — a widely deployed enterprise asset management platform in the energy sector — was the subject of a republished security advisory that consolidates multiple open‑source component vulnerabilities with serious operational impact potential, and operators must act now...

Schneider Electric has published coordinated advisories describing two OS command injection flaws in the BLMon monitoring console used by Saitel DR and Saitel DP Remote Terminal Units (RTUs), vulnerabilities that allow authenticated console users to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands...

CISA’s release of a Malware Analysis Report (MAR) detailing a Malicious Listener discovered on compromised Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) systems should reset priorities for every IT team that runs on-premises mobile device management (MDM). The analysis dissects two sets of malware...

Microsoft has set a firm deadline: routine security updates, quality patches and standard technical support for mainstream Windows 10 editions will end on October 14, 2025 — forcing households, businesses and public-sector IT teams to choose between upgrading, buying temporary protection, or...

Consumer advocates have formally asked Microsoft to keep the lights on for Windows 10 security updates for ordinary consumers, arguing that the company’s announced October 14, 2025 cutoff and the narrowly scoped, account‑linked or paid Extended Security Updates (ESU) option will leave millions...

More than a month before Microsoft stops issuing security patches for Windows 10, a fresh Kaspersky telemetry snapshot is sounding a loud alarm: a majority of devices in its dataset remain on Windows 10, with a non‑trivial tail still running unsupported releases such as Windows 7 — a situation...