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    Windows 11: Quality Updates in OOBE with Autopilot and Intune ESP

    Microsoft is rolling a significant change to how new Windows 11 PCs are provisioned: eligible devices will now check for and install the latest quality and security updates during the out-of-box experience (OOBE) so users sign in on day one with a patched, compliant system. This shift, delivered...
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    Windows 11 Aug 2025 KB5063878: SSDs Vanish Under Heavy Writes

    A wave of community test results and vendor confirmations this week has put the latest Windows 11 cumulative update under a harsh spotlight: several SSDs can disappear from Windows during sustained, large write operations after installing the August 12, 2025 update (KB5063878), with a...
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    CVE-2025-55229: Windows certificate spoofing explained for admins

    Urgent: What CVE-2025-55229 Means for Windows — A Deep Dive for Admins and Power Users By WindowsForum.com Staff Reporter — August 21, 2025 Summary — quick take Microsoft has published a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-55229 that affects Windows certificate handling: an improper verification...
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    CVE-2025-43300: Apple Image I/O Zero-Day Triggers CISA KEV Patch Rush

    CISA’s addition of a single entry to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog this week — CVE-2025-43300, an out‑of‑bounds write in Apple’s Image I/O framework — sharpens the spotlight on a zero‑day that Apple says was exploited in highly targeted attacks and underscores how quickly...
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    Scaling Virtualization-Based Security for Hotpatching on Windows Arm64 and x64

    Hotpatching’s promise — apply security fixes without forcing reboots — hinges on one non‑negotiable platform capability: Virtualization‑Based Security (VBS). For organizations preparing fleets for hotpatch delivery, enabling VBS at scale is the single most important operational task, and it’s...
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    Windows 10 ESU 12-month Lifeline Reshapes Windows 11 Migration and Security

    Microsoft’s 12‑month reprieve for Windows 10 users has changed the migration math — and not in Microsoft’s favor; what looked like a steady march to Windows 11 has stalled, leaving most Windows users once again facing an urgent upgrade decision with security, cost, and hardware implications that...
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    India CERT-In Warns of High-Risk Microsoft Flaws; Patch Windows, Office, Azure Now

    The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) on 18 August 2025 issued a high‑risk advisory warning that multiple critical vulnerabilities across Microsoft’s product portfolio place millions of Windows and Office users in India — from home desktops to enterprise Azure deployments — at...
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    KB5066189: Windows 11 Recovery Reset Fixed by Out-of-Band Update

    Microsoft released an out‑of‑band update on August 19, 2025—KB5066189 (OS Builds 22621.5771 and 22631.5771)—that quickly became the must‑install patch for Windows 11 22H2/23H2 devices affected by a regression introduced with the August security rollup; the update’s headline fix restores Reset...
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    WUSA Regression and WSUS Issues: Enterprise Patching with KIR Mitigations

    Microsoft has pushed a targeted rollback and policy fixes to repair a Windows Update Standalone Installer (WUSA) regression that could break .msu installations when run from network shares and disrupt enterprise update pipelines that rely on WSUS, SCCM, or scripted WUSA deployment. d delivery...
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    KB5063877 Fixes Windows Server 2019 Cluster Service Issue with BitLocker CSV

    Microsoft’s August cumulative update for Windows Server 2019, KB5063877 (released August 12, 2025), finally closes out a high‑visibility clustering regression introduced by the July rollout: a Cluster Service failure that caused repeated service restarts, node quarantines and virtual machine...
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    Close the Defender Gap: Update Windows OS Install Images with Offline Defender Pack

    Microsoft's warning about servicing Windows installation images with a fresh Microsoft Defender package is a timely reminder that new installations can inherit an invisible security gap: the antimalware binaries and definitions embedded in ISO/WIM/VHD images become stale the moment an image is...
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    Cisco FMC CVE-2025-20265: Pre-Auth RADIUS RCE Patch for Secure Firewall Management

    Cisco has pushed an urgent patch for a maximum‑severity remote code execution flaw in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software that allows an unauthenticated attacker to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands on affected appliances when RADIUS authentication is enabled for...
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    Windows 11 Security Gaps and Layered Defense: Beyond Defender

    Windows 11 ships with a far stronger security baseline than its predecessors, but real-world attackers and configuration gaps still find workarounds—meaning Defender and Windows Security are necessary, not sufficient, for modern threat defense. Background Windows 11’s built-in...
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    Windows Hardening: Disable 5 Features to Cut Attack Surface

    Windows ships with dozens of features and background services designed to improve convenience — but those conveniences are also additional points of entry for attackers. A recent how‑to-style guide compiled a short list of commonly unnecessary capabilities that many users can safely disable to...
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    Windows Office Hours Aug 21, 2025: Accelerating Windows 11, Zero Trust, and Cloud Workloads

    Microsoft’s Windows Office Hours returns on August 21, 2025, as a one‑hour, chat‑based Q&A focused on accelerating Windows 11 adoption, operationalizing Zero Trust, keeping fleets up to date, and moving workloads toward cloud-native models while respecting on‑premises and hybrid constraints...
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    Siemens CVE-2024-54678: Engineering deserialization flaw risks local code execution

    In a significant escalation for industrial cybersecurity, a broad class of Siemens engineering software has been confirmed vulnerable to a type confusion deserialization flaw that can lead to arbitrary code execution when an attacker has local authenticated access. The issue—tracked under...
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    Siemens CROSSBOW SAC SQLite Flaws: Patch to Prevent RCE/DoS

    Siemens’s RUGGEDCOM CROSSBOW Station Access Controller (SAC) has been identified as vulnerable to multiple memory‑corruption flaws in the embedded SQLite component that—if left unpatched—could allow remote attackers to crash devices or execute arbitrary code; Siemens recommends updating affected...
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    Critical CVE-2025-40746 in Siemens RTLS Locating Manager: Patch and Harden Now

    Siemens’ SIMATIC RTLS Locating Manager was republished in a consolidated advisory this August after vendor and national vulnerability databases identified a high‑severity improper input‑validation flaw that can give an authenticated attacker with elevated application privileges the potential to...
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    Siemens SINUMERIK CVE-2025-40743: Patch VNC Auth Bypass in CNC Platforms

    Siemens has published fixes for an improper VNC password check in multiple SINUMERIK CNC platforms after researchers discovered that the systems’ VNC access service can be reached with insufficient password verification, allowing an attacker on an adjacent network to gain unauthorized remote...
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    August 2025 Patch Tuesday: Critical fixes for Windows, Office, Hyper-V, RRAS, and Edge

    Microsoft’s August security roll-up arrived with muscle: a broad set of fixes across Windows, Office, Hyper‑V, RRAS, and Edge that closes dozens of high‑risk holes — but the tally of affected CVEs, the presence of a publicly disclosed Kerberos issue, and multiple graphics‑parsing remote code...
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