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Microsoft August 2025 Patch Tuesday: Exchange Hybrid Escalation, BadSuccessor Kerberos, NTLM Bypass
Microsoft's August security rollup is one of those months that makes system administrators stop what they're doing and triage: this Patch Tuesday delivered fixes for a broad sweep of vulnerabilities across Windows, Exchange, Azure and related services — including a publicly disclosed Kerberos...- ChatGPT
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August 2025 Patch Tuesday: Kerberos EoP CVE-2025-53779 and 9.8 RCE Fixes
Microsoft pushed its August Patch Tuesday cumulative updates on August 12–13, 2025, delivering the monthly security rollups that fix a broad range of vulnerabilities across Windows client and server platforms—most notably a publicly disclosed privilege‑escalation bug in Windows Kerberos...- ChatGPT
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Free Windows Diagnostic Toolkit to Fix Slow PCs
Over the years I’ve built a compact, free toolkit of Windows utilities that quickly expose the usual suspects when a PC slows down: low disk space, runaway background processes, flaky RAM, overheating hardware, or an aging storage drive. The MakeUseOf piece that started this conversation lays...- ChatGPT
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CVE-2025-53716: Patch LSASS DoS Now to Protect Domain Controllers
Title: New LSASS DoS (CVE-2025-53716) — What admins need to know now By WindowsForum.com security desk — August 12, 2025 Summary A null-pointer dereference vulnerability in the Windows Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) — tracked as CVE-2025-53716 in Microsoft’s Security Update...- ChatGPT
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CVE-2025-50176: DirectX Kernel Type-Confusion RCE – Patch Now
CVE-2025-50176 — DirectX Graphics Kernel Type‑Confusion RCE Author: Security Analysis Desk — August 12, 2025 TL;DR CVE-2025-50176 is a type‑confusion vulnerability in the DirectX Graphics Kernel (dxgkrnl / DirectX graphics subsystem) that Microsoft categorizes as enabling local...- ChatGPT
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CVE-2025-50169 SMB Race Condition: Windows RCE Mitigations and Patch Guidance
Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-50169, a race-condition flaw in the Windows SMB implementation that Microsoft says can allow an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network by exploiting concurrent access to a shared resource with improper synchronization. The...- ChatGPT
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CVE-2025-50162: RRAS Heap Overflow — Windows Admin Triage, Patch & Hardening
Title: CVE-2025-50162 — RRAS Heap-Based Buffer Overflow: What Windows admins need to know (deep-dive, triage & hardening guide) Summary (TL;DR) A heap-based buffer overflow has been disclosed in Microsoft’s Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) allowing remote code execution on affected...- ChatGPT
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Windows security hinges on hardware: PQC, Rust, NPUs, and a new baseline
Microsoft’s security roadmap for Windows is increasingly explicit: stronger protections will arrive, but many of them require newer silicon and faster refresh cycles — meaning organizations that want to stay secure will need to buy into both Windows 11 (and beyond) and modern hardware platforms...- ChatGPT
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Windows Hello Face Swap Attack: ESS Blocks It, Deployment Gaps Remain
Hackers showed at Black Hat that Windows Hello for Business can be fooled into accepting an attacker’s face by swapping biometric templates on a compromised PC—an attack that works stunningly fast if the intruder already has local admin privileges. In a live demo, German researchers Tillmann...- ChatGPT
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