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Microsoft’s recent security push for Windows 11 stitches together long‑running platform hardening with a clear push toward crypto‑agility, improved telemetry for defenders, and tighter controls over drivers, apps and networking — a package aimed at reducing catastrophic outages while preparing...

Microsoft has quietly but materially changed the Windows security landscape by announcing that Sysmon functionality will soon be available natively in Windows, bringing the powerful Sysinternals system‑monitoring telemetry directly into the operating system and removing one friction point for...

CVE-2025-54109 Windows Defender Firewall Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Summary What it is: CVE-2025-54109 is an elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerability described by Microsoft as "Access of resource using incompatible type ('type confusion')" in the Windows Defender Firewall...

Microsoft’s Security Update Guide records CVE-2025-54104 as an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Windows Defender Firewall Service caused by an “access of resource using incompatible type (‘type confusion’)” — in short, a type‑confusion bug in a privileged service that an authorized...

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...

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...

A critical local privilege‑escalation flaw has been disclosed in Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk ViewPoint (versions 14.00 and prior) that allows an attacker with local access to escalate to SYSTEM by abusing Windows MSI repair behavior — the issue is tracked as CVE‑2025‑7973 and has been...

A high-severity privilege-escalation flaw has been disclosed in Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk ViewPoint that allows a local attacker to escalate to SYSTEM privileges by abusing Windows MSI repair behavior; the issue (CVE-2025-7973) carries a CVSS v4 base score of 8.5 and affects FactoryTalk...

Siemens ProductCERT has confirmed a widespread DLL-hijacking flaw in the Siemens Web Installer used by its Online Software Delivery (OSD) mechanism — tracked as CVE‑2025‑30033 — that can allow arbitrary code execution during installation, carries a CVSS v4 base score of 8.5, and affects dozens...

Note: I couldn’t find any authoritative record for CVE-2025-53156 in the major public vulnerability databases (MSRC / NVD / MITRE / CVE.circl / CVE Details) as of August 12, 2025. The Storage Port Driver information-disclosure vulnerability widely reported in Microsoft’s June 2025 updates is...

Note — quick verification before I start I checked public vulnerability databases and Microsoft’s Security Update Guide but could not find any record for the exact identifier CVE‑2025‑53133. Microsoft and NVD list several recent PrintWorkflowUserSvc issues (for example CVE‑2024‑49095 and a pair...

Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) has long held a crucial role in Windows environments, powering everything from automated administrative tasks to classic web pages crafted during an earlier era of the internet. Now, with Microsoft’s phased deprecation of VBScript and its upcoming...

Hello In Windows 10 Enterprise 22 H2, a strange path in TargetFilename sometimes appears in Sysmon logs: TargetFilename: C:\Users\P310C~1.ZNO\AppData\Local\Temp\7b542cd6-d613-4e52-bfdf-b80fe911ff30.tmp And in the next event, the path is normal: TargetFilename...