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    Office 2016/2019 End of Support 2025: Patch, Upgrade, or Migrate to 365

    Microsoft’s decision to stop issuing security updates for Office 2016 and Office 2019 on October 14, 2025 forces a clear choice on millions of users and IT teams: upgrade to a supported platform, migrate to Microsoft 365, or accept the operational and security trade-offs of third‑party...
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    Windows 11 OOBE Installs Quality Updates During Provisioning with Intune ESP

    Microsoft is rolling a change that will alter the first minutes of life for new Windows 11 devices in many organizations: starting with the September 2025 security update, eligible enterprise and education PCs will check for and install the latest Windows quality updates during the Out‑Of‑Box...
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    Borderless CS IT Hardening: Reducing Attack Surfaces Across Windows, Linux, macOS and Cloud

    Borderless CS’s launch of IT Hardening Expert Services arrives at a moment when simple misconfigurations and unmaintained defaults are repeatedly exposed as the weakest links in enterprise security, and the firm is pitching a pragmatic, standards-aligned program to shrink attack surfaces across...
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    Patch CVE-2025-9478: Critical ANGLE UAF in Chromium—Update Chrome 139+ and Edge

    Chromium security teams patched a critical use‑after‑free vulnerability in the ANGLE graphics translation layer tracked as CVE‑2025‑9478, and every Windows and enterprise administrator who manages Chromium‑based browsers — including Microsoft Edge — should verify and deploy the fixes immediately...
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    Delta COMMGR Vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-53418/53419 Patch to v2.10.0

    Delta Electronics has published an advisory warning that its COMMGR engineering and simulation software contains multiple high‑severity vulnerabilities — including a stack‑based buffer overflow (CVE‑2025‑53418) and a code‑injection flaw (CVE‑2025‑53419) — that affect COMMGR versions up to and...
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    CISA ICS Advisories Aug 28 2025: 9 Critical Vulnerabilities Across OT Vendors

    CISA on August 28, 2025, published a batch of nine Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories covering critical vulnerabilities across Mitsubishi Electric, Schneider Electric, Delta Electronics, GE Vernova, Hitachi Energy, and ICONICS/Mitsubishi integrations — a coordinated disclosure that...
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    CIMPLICITY CWE-427: Patch with 2024 SIM 4

    GE Vernova’s CIMPLICITY HMI/SCADA platform has been flagged in a recently circulated advisory as vulnerable to an Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE‑427) issue that, under the right local conditions, could allow a low‑privileged user to escalate privileges on affected hosts — the advisory...
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    Patch CVE-2025-47728: Delta CNCSoft-G2 DPAX Parser Out-of-Bounds Write

    Delta Electronics’ CNCSoft‑G2 has been the focus of a coordinated disclosure that exposes a file‑parsing out‑of‑bounds write (CWE‑787) in the DPAX project file handler — a flaw tracked as CVE‑2025‑47728 that can lead to arbitrary code execution when a user opens a specially crafted file, and...
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    CERT-In Urges Immediate Patch for Edge, Windows Storage, Certificates, Databricks

    The Indian government’s cybersecurity arm has issued a high-severity alert advising organisations and individuals to urgently address a batch of patched—but still dangerous—vulnerabilities across multiple Microsoft products, including Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based), Windows Server storage...
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    CISA NSA FBI Warn PRC APT Attacks Target Global Router Infrastructure (Salt Typhoon)

    CISA and partner agencies have issued a sharply worded joint Cybersecurity Advisory warning that People’s Republic of China (PRC) state‑sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors have been compromising global telecommunications and critical‑infrastructure networks by targeting...
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    Azure Update Manager: Centralized Patch Orchestration for Cloud, On-Prem, and Hybrid

    Microsoft's latest move to centralize and simplify enterprise patching — pushing Azure Update Manager as the recommended path for orchestrating Windows updates across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid fleets — promises to change how IT teams plan, schedule, and recover from update events while also...
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    Windows Server 2025: Automation, Hotpatching, and the KB5044284 Lesson

    Microsoft’s latest move to automate and AI‑assist Windows Server 2025 upgrades promises to cut the friction and risk that have long dogged enterprise patch cycles, but the effort is also a reminder that automation without clear metadata and robust controls can make things worse as quickly as it...
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    0patch Extends Security for Office 2016/2019 After End of Support with Paid Plans

    0patch’s decision to “security-adopt” Microsoft Office 2016 and Office 2019 — and to package that commitment into new paid plans — reshapes the post‑end‑of‑support landscape for millions of users who either can’t or won’t migrate to Microsoft 365 or Windows 11 before Microsoft’s October 14, 2025...
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    BeyondTrust 2023 Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report: Windows Server Security Trends

    BeyondTrust’s release of the 2023 Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report — framed as the 10th‑anniversary edition — is both a retrospective and a warning: the last decade of Microsoft vulnerability disclosures has delivered recurring patterns that disproportionately affect Windows Server environments...
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    Windows OOBE: Auto-install quality updates via Intune ESP (Sept 2025)

    Microsoft is rolling one more control layer into Windows setup: starting with the September 2025 security update, eligible Windows 11 devices enrolled through modern management can automatically download and install Windows quality updates during the Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE), with the...
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    CISA Adds CVE-2025-7775 to KEV: Urgent Patch for Citrix NetScaler

    CISA has added a critical Citrix NetScaler vulnerability — CVE-2025-7775 — to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog after evidence of active exploitation, prompting an urgent patch-and-verify cycle for NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway operators worldwide. Background CVE-2025-7775...
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    CIQ Rocky Linux Hardened (RLC-H) Now on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Marketplaces

    CIQ’s hardened variant of Rocky Linux has taken a decisive step into the hyperscaler world: Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened (RLC‑H) is now offered through the major cloud marketplaces, giving enterprises a pre‑configured, supply‑chain‑validated Enterprise Linux image designed to reduce manual...
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    Windows 10 End of Support: Plan Windows 11 Upgrade by Oct 14, 2025

    Microsoft’s formal end-of-support date for Windows 10—October 14, 2025—has pushed local managed‑IT providers into high gear, warning businesses that failure to prepare will increase security exposure, complicate compliance, and make future hardware purchases more expensive and time consuming...
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    Windows OOBE Now Installs Quality Updates via ESP for Entra-Joined Devices

    Microsoft is rolling the ability to install Windows quality updates during the Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE) into enterprise provisioning flows, making it possible for eligible Entra‑joined and Entra hybrid‑joined Windows 11 devices to arrive at first sign‑in already patched — but only when...
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    Schneider M340 FTP DoS Flaw CVE-2025-6625: Patch, Mitigations, and OT Hardening

    Schneider Electric has acknowledged a high-severity vulnerability in its Modicon M340 family and several M340 communication modules that can be triggered remotely by a specially crafted FTP command and may cause a denial-of-service condition; the flaw was assigned CVE‑2025‑6625 and carries a...
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