patch management

A wide-ranging October 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5066835), and at least one related preview package, has broken many local IIS-hosted sites and developer workflows — causing ERR_CONNECTION_RESET, ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR and outright failure of localhost-based services for...

Windows 10’s official support end is a hard deadline — but for organizations wrestling with legacy, mission‑critical applications, the moment is not a verdict of doom; it’s a call to action with practical, fast, and defensible options to keep apps running securely while you plan longer‑term...

If your PC still runs Windows 10, Microsoft hasn’t abandoned you completely: Microsoft Defender will keep delivering threat intelligence and definition updates for a limited window, but that protection is a partial safety net — not a substitute for OS security patches or a long‑term supported...

CISA Releases Thirteen Industrial Control Systems Advisories — what operators, integrators and security teams must do next by [Staff Reporter], October 16, 2025 CISA published a consolidated release of thirteen Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on October 16, 2025, calling attention to...

Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 Patchday left enterprise defenders and Office users with urgent work: the monthly security refresh fixed a large cluster of Office parser and document‑handling vulnerabilities — including high‑impact Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaws in Word and Excel — while the...

Microsoft’s decision to draw the curtain on Windows 10 has finally arrived: the decade‑old operating system has moved from mainstream support into retirement, forcing households, small businesses and enterprise IT teams into a narrow planning window where choices are security‑driven and...

Microsoft has published a security advisory and accompanying fixes for CVE-2025-58737, a use‑after‑free vulnerability in Windows Remote Desktop that can lead to local remote code execution when exploited under specific conditions. The advisory and industry trackers indicate the vulnerability was...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-59213, a high-severity SQL injection vulnerability in Microsoft Configuration Manager that can be abused for local elevation of privilege; administrators must urgently verify the exact KB mapping for their Configuration Manager branch and deploy...

Microsoft’s October security rollup closed a critical, high‑impact remote code execution bug in Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) — tracked as CVE‑2025‑59287 — and the implications for enterprise update pipelines are severe: the flaw permits unsafe deserialization of untrusted input in WSUS...

Microsoft’s Security Update Guide catalogs CVE-2025-59244 as a Windows NTLM “hash disclosure / spoofing” class vulnerability, but public technical details remain deliberately sparse; defenders should treat the CVE as real, assume the most likely exploitation model is an Explorer-initiated NTLM...

Microsoft has assigned CVE-2025-59248 to a newly disclosed spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server, and the vendor released security updates on October 14, 2025 that address the issue in supported Exchange builds; the flaw is described as an improper input validation problem that can...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-59238, a use‑after‑free vulnerability in Microsoft PowerPoint that can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a local system when a user opens a crafted presentation. Microsoft’s advisory and multiple third‑party trackers place the CVSS...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-59232, an out-of-bounds read information‑disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft Excel that can leak process memory when a specially crafted workbook is opened; the vendor released security updates on October 14, 2025 and rates the issue as a...

Microsoft’s advisory for CVE-2025-59229 describes an uncaught exception in Microsoft Office that can be triggered by a local user action to cause a denial-of-service (application crash) on affected Office installations — a medium‑severity issue published on October 14, 2025 — and administrators...

Microsoft has confirmed a serious remote code execution flaw in Microsoft Word, tracked as CVE-2025-59221, and issued patches across multiple Office product lines — with explicit vendor guidance that customers must install every update that applies to the specific Office/Word builds they run...

Microsoft has recorded CVE-2025-59209 as an information disclosure vulnerability in the Windows Push Notification Core that can permit a low-privilege, authorized local actor to obtain sensitive information from a host; the advisory classifies the flaw as local-only with a medium CVSS v3.1 score...

Microsoft has assigned CVE-2025-59198 to a newly disclosed denial‑of‑service flaw in the Windows Search component, a vulnerability that allows a low‑privilege, authorized local user to trigger a service outage by supplying specially crafted input to the search service. This advisory was...

A heap-based buffer overflow in the Windows Connected Devices Platform Service (Cdpsvc) — tracked as CVE-2025-59191 — was published on October 14, 2025 and classified by vendors as an elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerability that allows an authorized local attacker with low privileges to gain...

Microsoft has published a security advisory for CVE-2025-59188, an information-disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft Failover Cluster that can allow a low‑privilege, local actor to read sensitive information written to cluster diagnostic/log files; a vendor fix is available and the vulnerability...

Microsoft has confirmed a class of memory-corruption flaws in its Inbox COM Objects that include a local remote-code-execution (RCE)–style impact for certain realistic attack chains; CVE-2025-58730 is one member of that family and was remediated in Microsoft’s October 2025 security roll‑up, but...