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    Windows 10 September 2025 KB5065429: End of Support Looms, ESU Bridge

    Microsoft's September cumulative — KB5065429 — is rolling out now, and for millions of Windows 10 users it is both a final security lifeline and a practical checkpoint as the operating system heads to its scheduled end of support on October 14, 2025. Background / Overview Windows 10’s...
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    Windows 11 24H2 Dirac Audio Safeguard Lifted: Update Now via Windows Update

    Microsoft has quietly lifted a major compatibility block that prevented a subset of Windows PCs from receiving the Windows 11, version 24H2 feature update after a months‑long hold tied to a Dirac Audio driver issue, and the company says a new driver delivered through Windows Update resolves the...
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    Windows 10 End of Support 2025: Kaspersky Telemetry Urges Windows 11 Migration

    Kaspersky’s telemetry snapshot lands like a warning siren: in their sampled dataset just weeks before Microsoft’s cut-off, roughly 53% of monitored devices were still running Windows 10, only 33% had migrated to Windows 11, and a measurable tail — about 8.5% — remained on Windows 7, while...
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    Windows 10 End of Support 2025: Upgrade, ESU, and Alternatives

    Microsoft has fixed a hard deadline: Windows 10 reaches end of support on October 14, 2025, and the calendar is not negotiable—users must choose to upgrade, buy a short-term extension, or accept growing security risk. Background / Overview Microsoft’s lifecycle policy for Windows 10 has been...
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    Microsoft Enforces Dedicated Exchange Hybrid App: Sept 2025 Window

    Microsoft is taking the first concrete step in its phased enforcement of the dedicated Exchange hybrid app requirement: on September 16, 2025 at 07:00 UTC Microsoft will temporarily block Exchange Web Services (EWS) traffic that uses the Exchange Online shared service principal for hybrid...
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    Windows 10 End of Support 2025: Migration Playbook & Security Risks

    More than half of the world’s personal computers remain on Windows 10 even as Microsoft’s official support deadline looms, creating a wide and growing security gap that affects consumers, small businesses, and enterprise networks alike. New telemetry shared publicly via cybersecurity vendor...
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    Windows 10 End of Support 2025: Migration Playbook and ESU Guide

    Microsoft’s October deadline for Windows 10 support has arrived like a ringing bell for an industry that—by several measures—wasn’t ready: large numbers of consumer and corporate endpoints still run Windows 10, many organisations face compatibility and budget constraints, and the safety net...
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    CVE-2025-5086: Active Exploitation in DELMIA Apriso Deserialization (KEV)

    CISA has added CVE-2025-5086 — a critical deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability in Dassault Systèmes DELMIA Apriso — to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation that elevates remediation priority under Binding Operational Directive (BOD)...
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    Windows 10 Ends 2025: Best Secure Paths If You Can't Move to Windows 11

    If your PC can’t run Windows 11, you’re not alone — and you still have a set of sensible, ranked options to stay secure, productive, and compliant after Windows 10 reaches end of support on October 14, 2025. Background: why this moment matters Microsoft will stop shipping regular security...
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    Windows 10 22H2 Build 19045.6388 Release Preview: End-of-Support & ESU

    Today’s Windows Insider push is intentionally modest but contextually significant: Microsoft has released Windows 10, version 22H2 — Build 19045.6388 (KB5066198) to the Release Preview Channel, a cumulative update described by the Windows Insider Program Team as “a small set of general...
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    CISA ICS Advisories Sept 11, 2025: Siemens, Schneider, Daikin Patch Priority

    CISA’s latest bulletin — a compact but consequential package released on September 11, 2025 — flags eleven Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories affecting major automation vendors and field devices, including multiple Siemens engineering and network products, several Schneider Electric...
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    Urgent Patch for EcoStruxure CVE-2025-8449/8448 DoS and Credential Exposure

    Schneider Electric has published fixes and CISA republished an advisory after coordinated disclosure of two vulnerabilities in EcoStruxure Building Operation / Enterprise Server and associated Workstation components that could enable an authenticated, adjacent‑network attacker to cause a...
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    Siemens UMC Vulnerabilities: Critical RCE and DoS; Patch to 2.15.1.3 Now

    Siemens has published a high‑severity ProductCERT advisory (SSA‑722410) describing multiple remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in its User Management Component (UMC), including a stack‑based buffer overflow that Siemens scores as critical and three separate out‑of‑bounds read issues that can...
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    OT Network Hygiene: Siemens RUGGEDCOM Advisory & Quick Mitigations

    Siemens and U.S. cyber authorities have republished a focused advisory addressing two low‑severity but operationally meaningful vulnerabilities in SINEC OS that affect the RUGGEDCOM RST2428P (6GK6242‑6PA00); the immediate mitigation is straightforward (block discovery UDP ports) but the broader...
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    Windows 10 Rebound Near End-of-Support Shifts Windows 11 Migration

    Windows 10’s sudden rebound in usage just weeks before end of support has shifted the migration narrative: a late-month rise in Windows 10’s market share has narrowed the gap with Windows 11, exposing a fragmented upgrade landscape that will complicate Microsoft’s push to consolidate users on...
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    Windows 7 End of Support: Migrate to Windows 10/11 or Face Rising Security Risks

    Microsoft ended free security support for Windows 7 years ago, and the practical consequence is the same now as then: continuing to run an unsupported, 11‑year‑old operating system leaves machines more exposed to newly discovered vulnerabilities, and the simple advice to upgrade — to Windows 10...
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    September Patch Tuesday 2025: Talos Snort Rules and the SOC Playbook

    Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday arrived with a broad set of fixes and a matching set of detection updates from Cisco Talos — including a new Snort ruleset — aimed at the most likely-to-be-exploited flaws this month. The update package contains dozens of CVEs spanning Windows core components...
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    WSUS Hardening in Windows Server 2025 Impacts ESU for 2012/2012 R2

    Microsoft’s September 2025 hardening update for Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) on Windows Server 2025 removes legacy update binaries used by WSUS to service the Windows Update SelfUpdate component, and that change has immediate operational implications for organizations still relying on...
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    Urgent Patch Required: CVE-2025-54912 BitLocker Kernel UAF Privilege Escalation

    Microsoft’s security advisory confirms a use‑after‑free defect in the BitLocker stack that can be triggered by an authorized local user to escalate privileges on affected Windows systems — administrators must treat CVE‑2025‑54912 as an urgent patching priority and assume a high‑impact threat...
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    CVE-2025-54917: Windows MapUrlToZone Security Feature Bypass Explained

    Microsoft’s security feed lists CVE-2025-54917 as a Windows MapUrlToZone “Security Feature Bypass” — a protection-mechanism failure that can let an attacker trick Windows into misclassifying a URL’s zone and thereby bypass zone-based restrictions across the network. This class of flaw sits...
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