Microsoft’s May 13, 2025 hotpatch for Windows PowerShell, released as KB5061096, is a narrowly scoped security update aimed at reducing immediate exposure for hotpatch‑eligible systems while preserving uptime for high‑availability deployments; it applies only to devices enrolled in Microsoft’s...
Valve’s Steam client will stop supporting 32‑bit versions of Windows on January 1, 2026 — a change that’s technically sensible, strategically predictable, and narrowly impactful for most players, but which carries an outsized risk for the small group still running Windows 10 (32‑bit) unless...
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Steam will stop supporting Windows 32‑bit installations on January 1, 2026, a move that, if confirmed and implemented as reported, will leave the vanishingly small number of users still running Windows 10 in its 32‑bit form without client updates, security fixes, or official Steam Support help —...
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Microsoft has quietly placed a cluster of legacy web components — the EdgeHTML-era pieces that once connected Windows and the web — onto Windows’ official deprecation list, signaling a formal step toward their eventual removal and accelerating the platform’s shift to Chromium-based embedding and...
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...
Microsoft has published KB5066360, a hotpatch that updates Windows PowerShell on Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC 2024 to OS Build 26100.6569, addressing a specific PSDirect connectivity failure that could, under narrow conditions, allow unauthorized non-administrator access between host and guest...
Microsoft’s advisory for a newly referenced HTTP.sys vulnerability describes an out‑of‑bounds read in the Windows HTTP protocol stack that can be triggered remotely against Internet Information Services (IIS) and other HTTP.sys consumers, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to cause a...
Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-54110, a Windows Kernel vulnerability caused by an integer overflow or wraparound that can be triggered by a locally authorized attacker to achieve elevation of privilege to SYSTEM on affected machines; administrators should treat this as a...
Breaking Down CVE-2025-54914 — Azure Networking Elevation‑of‑Privilege (what admins need to know)
Summary
Microsoft has published a Security Update Guide entry for CVE-2025-54914, an elevation‑of‑privilege issue that Microsoft lists under its Azure Networking surface. Administrators should...
Here is a summary of the information on the Microsoft Support page for the "July 8, 2025—Baseline":
This date marks the release of the security update baseline for July 2025.
The update pertains to Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC 2024.
For specific details on the update, users are directed to...
The Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) has recently been identified as vulnerable to a critical security flaw, designated as CVE-2025-49672. This vulnerability is a heap-based buffer overflow that allows unauthorized attackers to execute arbitrary code over a network, posing...
Important Security Update: Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Now Mandatory
To enhance the security of our community and protect user accounts, WindowsForum.com now requires multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all accounts. This is no longer optional.
Why MFA?
The rise in credential theft and...
Here’s a summary of what you need to know about downloading and updating to Windows 11 version 25H2, based on information from Microsoft and recent Windows update practices:
How Windows 11 Version 25H2 Updates Work
Enablement Package (eKB): If your PC is running Windows 11 version 24H2, the...
Microsoft’s June 2025 security update for Windows 11 version 24H2 arrives at a time of heightened attention to system stability, AI integration, and security innovation across personal and enterprise environments. KB5060842 (OS Build 26100.4349) is billed as a cumulative update, encompassing...
In a significant cybersecurity development, Commvault, a leading provider of data protection and backup solutions, has confirmed that a nation-state threat actor exploited a zero-day vulnerability, designated as CVE-2025-3928, to breach its Microsoft Azure environment. This incident has raised...
Original release date: July 01, 2017 | Last revised: July 28, 2017
Systems Affected
Microsoft Windows operating systems
Overview
This Alert has been updated to reflect the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center's (NCCIC) analysis of the "NotPetya" malware variant.
The...
Severity Rating:
Revision Note: V2.0 (December 11, 2012): Added the KB2687627 and KB2687497 updates described in MS12-043, the KB2687501 and KB2687510 updates described in MS12-057, the KB2687508 update described in MS12-059, and the KB2726929 update described in MS12-060 to the list of...
Severity Rating: Critical
Revision Note: V1.1 (December 30, 2011): Added entry to the Update FAQ to address security-related changes to functionality contained in this update and added mitigation for CVE-2011-3414
Summary: This security update resolves one publicly...