patch management

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...

Windows Server 2016 has reached a pivotal point in its lifecycle: mainstream support ended years ago and extended support will stop on January 12, 2027, leaving systems that remain on the platform exposed to unpatched vulnerabilities, compliance gaps, and growing compatibility problems. This...

Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) and its relationship with Windows Server have resurfaced in recent reporting as a nexus of operational pain and security risk — a story that blends a high‑volume patch cycle, at least one serious authentication vulnerability, and persistent...

A recent technical feature in International Daily News highlighted some of the most overlooked yet critical components in the Microsoft ecosystem: the interaction between IIS (Internet Information Services) and the Windows Server platform, common post-installation errors in WSUS (Windows Server...

CISA’s August 25 alert that it has added three new flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog should be treated as a red alert for IT teams: two significant issues in Citrix Session Recording (CVE-2024-8068 and CVE-2024-8069) and a client-side Git link-following vulnerability...

Microsoft’s Exchange team has taken a decisive step toward finally letting organizations retire the last Exchange server in hybrid environments by adding cloud-managed remote mailbox support — a per-mailbox “flip-the-switch” that transfers Exchange attribute authority to Exchange Online while...

Microsoft’s slow, staged rollout of the Windows 10 Enroll now (ESU) wizard means the extension lifeline Microsoft promised for legacy PCs is available — but not instantly visible to everyone, and it comes with conditions and caveats that every Windows 10 user should understand before relying on...

The VAN 9003 crash that left many Valorant players staring at the message “This build of Vanguard is out of compliance with current system settings” proved to be less a single bug and more a collision of modern Windows security posture, anti‑cheat kernel drivers, and inconsistent platform...

Microsoft’s Security Response Center has published an advisory for CVE-2025-55231 describing a race‑condition vulnerability in the Windows storage management stack that, according to the vendor entry, can be abused to achieve remote code execution — a high‑impact outcome that requires immediate...

Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) now lists CVE-2025-53763 as an improper access control vulnerability in Azure Databricks that can be exploited to achieve elevation of privilege over the network, a finding that demands urgent attention from cloud and data platform administrators...

A high-severity memory-corruption flaw in Chromium’s V8 JavaScript engine, tracked as CVE-2025-9132, has been patched in the Chrome 139 stable update; the vulnerability is an out‑of‑bounds write that can lead to heap corruption and, in the worst case, remote code execution when a user visits a...

Microsoft’s security update guide lists a high‑risk elevation‑of‑privilege entry for the Windows MBT Transport driver that, according to the vendor advisory, stems from an untrusted pointer dereference and can be used by an authorized local user to escalate to SYSTEM — a kernel‑level impact that...

When a vendor-side advisory and a CVE identifier don’t line up, the first — and most important — job for defenders and researchers is to stop, verify, and update the record. I tried to open the MSRC page you gave and could not find any public advisory, nor could I find any authoritative...

CISA’s August 21, 2025 advisory bundle added three urgent entries to the growing list of industrial control system (ICS) and medical-device vulnerabilities security teams must treat as high priority this month. The agency published advisories for a denial-of-service vector in the Mitsubishi...

FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas’ Synapse Mobility contains a web-parameter privilege-escalation flaw—tracked as CVE-2025-54551—that can be exploited remotely to bypass role-based access controls and expose protected imaging data, and CISA’s emergency medical advisory urges immediate upgrades to...

Microsoft has confirmed an emergency out‑of‑band (OOB) Windows update after August’s Patch Tuesday rollup caused built‑in recovery tools — Reset this PC, the cloud reimage flow Fix problems using Windows Update, and MDM‑initiated RemoteWipe CSP — to fail on multiple client branches, and...

Microsoft has temporarily paused the roll‑out of recent Windows updates after a cascade of high‑impact problems—including broken recovery tools, WSUS installation failures, and reports of storage devices becoming inaccessible—hit a subset of users and enterprise environments nationwide...

Hotpatch readiness is no longer an optional optimization for modern Windows fleets — it’s a foundational capability for any organization that values continuous uptime, rapid security response, and simplified update logistics. Enabling Virtualization‑based Security (VBS) at scale is the single...

Microsoft has quietly issued a set of emergency, out‑of‑band patches to fix a serious regression introduced by the August 2025 security updates that broke Windows’ built‑in recovery tools — including the widely used Reset this PC workflow — and caused some upgrade attempts to fail with error...

Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday has gone from a routine security maintenance window to an operational headache for administrators and home users alike, as the August 12, 2025 rollups introduced a pair of serious regressions — first a storage regression that could make some SSDs disappear under...