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    Consumer Reports Pushes Free Windows 10 Security Patches Beyond Oct 2025

    Consumer Reports has formally urged Microsoft to extend free support for Windows 10, warning that tens — possibly hundreds — of millions of still-working PCs will be left exposed when mainstream updates and security patches stop on October 14, 2025. The advocacy group’s letter to Microsoft’s CEO...
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    Windows 10 ESU 2025: How Extended Security Updates Work for Consumers and Businesses

    Microsoft has given Windows 10 users a clearly signposted escape hatch: Extended Security Updates (ESU) will let eligible PCs continue to receive critical and important security patches for up to three years after the operating system reaches end of support on October 14, 2025. The program...
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    Windows 10 End of Support: AI Risk for Australian SMBs

    Australia’s small businesses face a sharp security cliff this month as Microsoft ends mainstream support for Windows 10, and researchers warn that a parallel surge in AI‑enabled attack techniques is widening the window of opportunity for criminals — a risk compounded by many organisations...
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    Windows 10 End of Support: Advocates Push for Free Security Updates Beyond Oct 2025

    Consumer advocates have formally demanded that Microsoft reverse course and continue providing free security updates for Windows 10 beyond the company’s announced end‑of‑support date, warning that the planned cutoff on October 14, 2025 will leave hundreds of millions of still‑working PCs exposed...
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    CVE-2025-49728: Local Cleartext Credential Leak in Microsoft PC Manager – Patch Now

    CVE-2025-49728 — Microsoft PC Manager: Cleartext storage of sensitive information (Security‑feature bypass, local) Summary (TL;DR) Microsoft has assigned CVE‑2025‑49728 to a vulnerability in Microsoft PC Manager where sensitive information is stored in cleartext, enabling a local, unauthorized...
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    Urgent Patch: Delta DIALink CVEs (CVE-2025-58320/58321) Path Traversal

    Delta Electronics’ DIALink — a widely used industrial automation server — is the subject of a coordinated vulnerability disclosure that identifies two directory‑traversal / authentication‑bypass flaws (CVE‑2025‑58320 and CVE‑2025‑58321) affecting DIALink versions V1.6.0.0 and earlier, and urges...
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    Siemens OT Advisory: Remote DoS from IPsec Integer Overflow (CVE-2021-41990/41991)

    Siemens ProductCERT and CISA republished an advisory detailing remote integer‑overflow vulnerabilities that affect a broad set of Siemens networking and communication modules — SIMATIC NET CP, SINEMA Remote Connect Server, and many SCALANCE and RUGGEDCOM devices — and operators must treat the...
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    Siemens SSA-712929 and CVE-2022-0778: OpenSSL DoS in Industrial Devices

    Siemens’ sprawling product portfolio remains at the center of a major, ongoing industrial‑security effort after a broad advisory—originally published by Siemens ProductCERT and republished by U.S. cyber authorities—relisted scores of SCALANCE, RUGGEDCOM, SIMATIC, SIMOTION, SIPLUS and related...
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    Siemens OpenSSL CVE-2021-3712: Patch and mitigate ICS risk (SSA-244969)

    Siemens and upstream OpenSSL vulnerabilities that allow out-of-bounds reads — tracked under CVE-2021-3712 — remain a live operational risk across dozens of Siemens industrial networking, communications, and automation products; Siemens has published ProductCERT guidance and fixes for many...
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    CISA Sept 16, 2025 ICS Advisories: Urgent Patching & OT/IT Segmentation

    CISA’s September 16, 2025 bulletin consolidates another urgent wave of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) security notices: eight advisories covering Schneider Electric, Hitachi Energy, Siemens, Delta Electronics and multiple Siemens product families, plus an update to a prior Schneider Galaxy...
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    CVE-2025-7746: XSS in Schneider Electric Altivar Drives—Fixes & Mitigations

    A newly disclosed Cross‑Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability, tracked as CVE‑2025‑7746, affects a broad set of Schneider Electric Altivar drives and modules — including the ATVdPAC module (fixed in VW3A3530D version 25.0), multiple Altivar Process and Machine drives, and the ILC992 InterLink...
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    Windows 10 End of Support 2025: ESU Options, Upgrades, and Migration

    Microsoft’s countdown is now unambiguous: on October 14, 2025, Microsoft will stop providing routine security updates, quality fixes, and standard technical support for Windows 10, version 22H2 (Home, Pro, Enterprise, Education, and IoT Enterprise editions). Background The Windows 10 lifecycle...
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    Conficker (Downadup) Worm: Patch MS08-067 and Patch Management Lessons

    The Downadup/Conficker worm’s sudden surge in early 2009 forced a brutal reminder onto the Windows ecosystem: unpatched systems and lax patch management can turn ordinary desktops and servers into the backbone of a global botnet in a matter of days. Background Microsoft released an out‑of‑cycle...
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    Windows 10 EOL 2025: Plan Your Windows 11 Migration Now

    Microsoft’s countdown clock is now real: with just weeks to go until Microsoft stops issuing security updates and routine support for Windows 10, organisations and home users face a concrete deadline — October 14, 2025 — and must act now to avoid rising exposure and operational disruption...
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    Windows 11 24H2 Audio Issue Resolved: Dirac Driver Fix & Safeguard Lift

    Microsoft has marked a months‑old audio compatibility problem that blocked a subset of devices from receiving the Windows 11, version 24H2 feature update as resolved, after a vendor driver was published via Windows Update and the compatibility safeguard (safeguard ID 54283088) was removed for...
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    Windows 10 End of Support 2025: SMB Migration to Windows 11 & Copilot+

    The October 14, 2025 deadline for Windows 10 support is not a vague marketing threat—it’s a hard, non‑negotiable inflection point that forces SMBs to choose between predictable, staged migration now or emergency, expensive remediation later. Background Windows 10 will stop receiving free...
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    Windows 10 End of Support 2025: 5 Realistic Paths to Stay Secure

    Windows 10 will stop receiving free security fixes on October 14, 2025 — and if your PC can’t take the free Windows 11 upgrade, you have five realistic paths forward: enroll in Extended Security Updates (ESU), buy or rent a new Windows 11 PC (including cloud PCs), perform an unsupported upgrade...
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    KB5065474 Hotpatch for Windows 11 LTSC 2024: OS Build 26100.6508 & PSDirect Fix

    Microsoft released a September 9, 2025 hotpatch—KB5065474—for Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC 2024 that advances hotpatch coverage to a new OS build (26100.6508), addresses a notable UAC/MSI compatibility issue, and includes a known‑issue advisory that affects PowerShell Direct (PSDirect)...
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    Windows 10 End of Support 2025: ESU Options, Upgrades, and Next Steps

    Microsoft has given the clearest possible countdown: Windows 10 will stop receiving routine security updates, feature fixes, and general technical support after October 14, 2025, forcing every remaining Windows 10 PC into one of three paths — upgrade, pay for a temporary safety net, or accept...
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    Windows 10 End of Support 2025: ESU Options & Upgrade Paths

    Microsoft has set a hard line: on October 14, 2025, mainstream security updates for Windows 10 stop — and whether you upgrade, pay, or sign into a Microsoft account will determine if your PC stays protected for another year or becomes exposed to newly discovered exploits. This deadline affects...
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