In the wake of a sweeping and sophisticated cyberattack, security vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s on-premises SharePoint Server software have thrust the global spotlight squarely onto the tech giant’s patch management process and the broad-reaching consequences when that system falters. As news...
Semperis has unveiled a critical design flaw in Windows Server 2025's delegated Managed Service Accounts (dMSAs), termed "Golden dMSA." This vulnerability allows attackers to generate service account passwords, facilitating undetected, persistent access across Active Directory environments.
The...
A pivotal security development has emerged from the world of enterprise identity management: a critical flaw has been identified in delegated Managed Service Accounts (dMSA) within Windows Server 2025. This vulnerability, discovered and named the “Golden dMSA” attack by Semperis security...
When a system designed to keep the lights on for critical infrastructure instead risks shutting them off with a few keystrokes, alarm bells ring far beyond the server room. Such is the case with recent critical security advisories surrounding the Voltronic Power and PowerShield lines of...
The release of Windows 10 KB5063159 has swiftly drawn attention—both relief and skepticism—across the enterprise technology landscape, after June’s Patch Tuesday updates left a wave of broken Surface Hubs in their wake and triggered broader questions about Microsoft’s update quality control. For...
Here’s a concise summary and explanation of the “EchoLeak” vulnerability in Microsoft Copilot, why it’s scary, and what it means for the future of AI in the workplace, based on the article from digit.in:
What happened?
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-32711), named EchoLeak, was discovered...
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A sophisticated new threat named “Echoleak” has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers, triggering alarm across industries and raising probing questions about the security of widespread AI assistants, including Microsoft 365 Copilot and other MCP-compatible solutions. This attack, notable...
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Jailbreaking the world’s most advanced AI models is still alarmingly easy, a fact that continues to spotlight significant gaps in artificial intelligence security—even as these powerful tools become central to everything from business productivity to everyday consumer technology. A recent...
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When vulnerabilities surface in widely deployed software applications, the ripples inevitably touch both enterprise and home users alike. The CVE-2017-0045 security advisory, affecting Windows DVD Maker, stands as a sobering example of how legacy components in the Windows ecosystem can expose...
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Microsoft's recent Windows Server 2025 security updates have left many IT administrators scratching their heads as Remote Desktop sessions reportedly freeze shortly after connection. In a detailed announcement on its release health dashboard, Microsoft confirmed that systems running Windows...
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Here is a summary of the issue described in the article from The Register:
In April 2025, Microsoft quietly reintroduced the c:\inetpub folder to Windows systems as a mitigation for CVE-2025-21204, an elevation-of-privileges flaw within Windows Process Activation. Instead of patching the code...
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Microsoft’s Recall feature, the AI-fueled digital notetaker that nobody asked for yet everyone has an opinion about, has sidestepped its way back into Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs after nearly a year of public silence and private engineering panic. That’s right—Recall, the auto-screenshotting...
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It always starts innocently enough—one day, you’re minding your own business, perhaps checking whether Windows Update has kindly decided to allow you to work, when suddenly you notice a mysterious guest lurking in your C: directory: the “inetpub” folder. As it turns out, this is not the digital...
Windows users stared at their C: drives in dismay after April 2025’s Patch Tuesday, only to find a mysterious, empty new folder named “inetpub” lurking at the root of their systems—like some digital tumbleweed blown in by a particularly secretive Microsoft update.
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It’s not every year that cybersecurity professionals brace themselves for a headline so eye-watering it deserves a frame around the server room: Microsoft, titan of the tech world, has shattered its own vulnerability record, clocking in at a whopping 1,360 reported security flaws across its...
Windows users, brace yourselves for another quirky twist in the Windows update saga. If you recently installed the April Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 10 or Windows 11, you might have noticed an unexpected guest on your system drive: a folder named "inetpub." While its name might suggest...
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Web applications increasingly integrate third-party services. The integration introduces new security challenges due to the complexity for an application to coordinate its internal states with those of the component services and the web client across the Internet. In this paper, we study the...