Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Microsoft Execs Reveal Agentic Windows: An OS That Watches, Listens, and Acts For You
Microsoft’s top Windows executives are sketching a future where the operating system doesn’t just respond to clicks and keystrokes—it watches your screen, listens to your voice, learns your...
Tenable AI Exposure Debuts at Black Hat to Tackle Generative AI’s Hidden Attack Surface
Tenable today took the wraps off Tenable AI Exposure, a new module within its Tenable One exposure management platform designed to help enterprises discover, prioritize, and govern risks introduced...
Microsoft’s Azure Backlog Tops $368 Billion as AI Compute Drives 39% Growth
Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform surpassed a $75 billion annualized revenue run rate for the first time, while the company’s remaining performance obligation—contracted future...
Firefox Nightly 143 Crashes on Older Windows 10: The 'Missing DLL' That Isn't Really a DLL
Firefox Nightly 143 abruptly stopped working on Windows 10 versions older than 1803 in late 2024, leaving testers with a baffling error about a missing DLL that wasn’t actually a DLL at all. The...
Patch Now: Siemens BFCClient OpenSSL Flaws Leave Industrial Systems Exposed to Remote Attacks
Siemens has issued an urgent security advisory for its Brownfield Connectivity Client (BFCClient), a critical piece of software that bridges legacy industrial machinery to modern IT systems, after...
CISA Flags 9.3 CVSS Score as Azure RTOS Bugs Expose Rockwell Micro800 PLCs to Remote Code Execution
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) republished an urgent advisory on August 14, 2025, warning that multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in Rockwell Automation's...
CVE-2025-40584: Siemens SIMOTION and SINAMICS Tools Vulnerable to XXE File Disclosure, Some Left Unpatched
Siemens has acknowledged a critical XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability—tracked as CVE-2025-40584—affecting multiple versions of its SIMOTION SCOUT, SIMOTION SCOUT TIA, and SINAMICS STARTER...
Rockwell Studio 5000 Flaw CVE-2025-7971: Patch to v37.00.02 to Stop Environment Variable Attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has reissued an urgent advisory for a high-severity vulnerability in Rockwell Automation’s Studio 5000 Logix Designer that lets...
Critical VNC Authentication Bypass in Siemens SINUMERIK CNC Systems—Patch Now, CISA Warns
Siemens has released emergency patches for a severe authentication bypass vulnerability in its SINUMERIK CNC platforms that could let an attacker on an adjacent network seize remote control of...
Rockwell Patches Critical DoS Flaws in 1756-EN4TR Modules, Urges Immediate Firmware Update to 7.001
Rockwell Automation has released a firmware fix for a pair of vulnerabilities in its 1756-EN4TR and 1756-EN4TRXT communication modules that could allow an attacker to crash the devices, causing a...
Rockwell Patch Plugs SYSTEM Takeover Hole in FactoryTalk ViewPoint via MSI Repair Hijack
A high-severity local privilege-escalation vulnerability in Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk ViewPoint HMI software can hand an attacker full SYSTEM control of a Windows machine by exploiting a...
Siemens Energy Meters Exposed: Cleartext SMTP Passwords Threaten Utility Networks
Siemens has confirmed that multiple models in its SICAM Q100 and Q200 power meter families store SMTP account passwords in plaintext, a design flaw that lets any authenticated local user extract...