patch tuesday

  1. Windows 11 Patch Tuesday KB5065426: Install Failures and Workarounds

    Microsoft's September cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5065426) landed as a routine Patch Tuesday release but quickly became a headache for many users: installers fail with a slew of cryptic error codes, Microsoft Update Catalog packages sometimes abort mid‑install, and, in a number of reports...
  2. Safe OS Dynamic Updates for Windows 10 Legacy: WinRE Fixes Ahead of 2025 EOL

    Microsoft has quietly published a small set of Safe OS Dynamic Updates for legacy Windows 10 branches — KB5065918, KB5065307 and KB5065845 — delivering targeted improvements to the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) on September 9, 2025, and marking another step in the winding-down of Windows...
  3. KB5065429: Windows 10 ESU Enrollment & End-of-Support 2025

    Microsoft pushed Windows 10 cumulative update KB5065429 to 22H2 machines this week, a mandatory security rollup that arrives as the platform approaches its October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support deadline — and it’s tightly linked to Microsoft’s consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) enrollment path...
  4. Windows 11 24H2 September 2025 KB5065426: Security Update & Secure Boot Readiness

    Microsoft has released the September 2025 cumulative security update for Windows 11, version 24H2 — KB5065426 (OS Build 26100.6584) — a combined Latest Cumulative Update (LCU) and Servicing Stack Update (SSU) that delivers security hardening, targeted bug fixes, AI component updates for Copilot+...
  5. Windows 11 Emoji 16.0 rollout: glyphs exist but UI remains incomplete

    Windows 11 has quietly gained support for Emoji 16.0 — but the rollout is partial, inconsistent, and leaves important UI surfaces and apps still showing “missing glyph” boxes instead of the new icons. Background / Overview Emoji 16.0 is a deliberately small Unicode/emoji update that introduced...
  6. Windows 11 Local PC-to-PC Transfer: Move Files & Settings with Windows Backup

    Windows 11 now offers a built-in, local PC-to-PC transfer path inside the Windows Backup app that promises to simplify moving your files and settings to a new machine — but it comes with important caveats, sharp trade-offs, and a handful of setup steps most users will need to know before they...
  7. Microsoft September Patch Tuesday: 80+ CVEs, SMB Audit, and JSON vulnerability fixes

    Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday delivers a heavy, operationally urgent security package: more than 80 CVEs across Windows, Office, Hyper‑V, Azure components and developer libraries, including eight items Microsoft rates critical and two vulnerabilities that were publicly disclosed before the...
  8. September 2025 Patch Tuesday: Emergency RCE fixes, DES removal, HPC Pack alert

    Microsoft pushed its September 2025 monthly security updates on Patch Tuesday, delivering a broad set of fixes that address dozens of vulnerabilities across Windows client, server, and Microsoft server products — including multiple emergency severity fixes for remote code execution and a...
  9. September 2025 Windows Patch: UAC Refinement, NDI Fix, and MSI SecureRepair Whitelist

    Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday delivers a surgical corrective: the cumulative updates released on September 9, 2025 refine the User Account Control (UAC) behavior introduced in August and restore expected installer and streaming behavior while preserving the security hardening that closed...
  10. Windows 11 September 2025 Update: On-Device Copilot AI Binaries and UI Enhancements

    Microsoft's September cumulative for Windows 11 has landed and, rather than being a quiet maintenance release, it mixes visible UI polish, a handful of useful quality fixes and a fresh batch of staged, hardware-gated AI features — with one very practical sting in the tail: the cumulative...
  11. September Patch Tuesday Fixes UAC/MSI and NDI Regressions in Windows

    Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday has quietly closed two disruptive Windows regressions introduced in August — one that interfered with MSI-based app installs by unexpectedly surfacing User Account Control (UAC) prompts for standard users, and another that crippled NDI-based streaming...
  12. SAP NetWeaver Urgency on Patch Tuesday 2025: High-Risk CVEs Exploited

    September’s Patch Tuesday delivered a predictable mix of Windows fixes and the usual Office headaches — but this month the spotlight belongs to SAP, where a string of actively exploited and high-severity NetWeaver flaws demand an urgent, prioritized response from enterprise teams. Background...
  13. September 2025 Windows 10 22H2 Patch Tuesday: Backup for Organizations, ESU Block & SMB Hardening

    Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday lands for Windows 10 with a mix of stability fixes, enterprise controls and a new organizational backup capability — but the rollout is as much about operational discipline as it is about fresh features. The September 2025 cumulative updates bring build bumps...
  14. Windows 11 Emoji 16.0 in 24H2: Rendering Mix, Panel Delays, and KB5064081

    Windows 11’s 24H2 is now shipping support for Emoji 16.0 — but there’s a catch: the system emoji panel doesn’t yet expose the new icons, and rendering remains inconsistent across apps and web services. What looks like a late-but-welcome Unicode update has instead exposed a long-standing Windows...
  15. Windows 11 KB5065426 Patch Tuesday: Copilot+ on-device AI, UI polish, and privacy controls

    Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday brings a substantial, feature‑heavy cumulative update to Windows 11—KB5065426—delivering a mix of visible UI polish, staged Copilot+ AI capabilities, privacy controls for on‑device generative features, and a set of bug and security fixes that administrators...
  16. Understanding CVE-2025-54915: Local Privilege Escalation in Windows Defender Firewall Service

    Microsoft’s Security Response Center has cataloged CVE-2025-54915 as an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Windows Defender Firewall Service described as “Access of resource using incompatible type (‘type confusion’),” and the vendor advises that an authorized local attacker could...
  17. Windows 11 September 2025 Patch Tuesday: Copilot quirks, OOBE translation bug, rollout tips

    Microsoft pushed the September 2025 Patch Tuesday rollup to Windows 11 today, a cumulative release that—according to community reporting—carries the usual mix of security fixes, quality improvements and targeted Copilot reliability updates, but also surfaces a handful of user-facing regressions...
  18. Windows 11 KB5065426 (Build 26100.6584): AI models, UI polish, and rollout guidance

    Windows 11’s September Patch Tuesday brings a sizeable, feature-packed cumulative update—KB5065426 (Build 26100.6584)—that mixes small but welcome taskbar and File Explorer polish with deeper on-device AI components and an unusually large offline payload that deserves careful attention from both...
  19. CVE-2025-53804: Windows Kernel Driver Info Disclosure—What Admins Must Do

    Note: below is a long-form, technically focused feature article about CVE-2025-53804. I drew on Microsoft’s official entry for this CVE and on Microsoft documentation and guidance about kernel-mode drivers and driver blocklists to explain the risk, likely exploitation paths, detection and...
  20. CVE-2025-53800: Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Explained

    Microsoft’s Security Response Guide lists CVE‑2025‑53800 as an Elevation of Privilege in the Windows Graphics Component that can be triggered by an authorized local attacker, but the publicly available advisory lacks full technical detail and additional contextual data remains limited at the...