Articles from 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2025
Siemens SIMOTION Flaw: Unpatched NSIS Installer Bug Grants Attackers SYSTEM Access on Windows
Siemens and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have issued a coordinated advisory warning that several SIMOTION engineering tools contain a local privilege-escalation...
Siemens Confirms No Patch for IEM-OS Denial‑of‑Service Flaw, Orders Migration to IEM‑V
Siemens Industrial Edge Management OS (IEM‑OS) is vulnerable to a remotely exploitable denial‑of‑service condition, and the manufacturer has confirmed it will not issue a patch. Instead, all...
Critical Siemens SIVaaS Bug Exposes Windows-Hosted Automation VMs to Remote Tampering Without Logins
A critical vulnerability in Siemens’ SIMATIC Virtualization as a Service (SIVaaS) has been assigned CVE-2025-40804, carrying a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.1 and a CVSS v4 score of 9.3. The flaw—an...
Patch Gap: Siemens SINAMICS S200 Drives Left Vulnerable as CISA Issues Warning on CVE-2025-40594
Siemens has disclosed a privilege‑escalation vulnerability in its widely‑deployed SINAMICS drive family that allows an attacker with local network access to trigger factory resets and alter...
Schneider Electric Patches Critical File-Access Flaw in Modicon M340, But OT Risk Lingers
Industrial operators managing Schneider Electric’s Modicon M340 programmable automation controllers (PACs) face an immediate security challenge after the disclosure of a vulnerability that allows...
At 2.2 GB, Nano11 Is the Tiniest Windows 11 Ever—But Security and Updates Are Stripped Away
A community developer has created the smallest Windows 11 desktop environment yet: a 2.2 GB ISO that installs to just 2.8 GB on disk. Dubbed Nano11, this script-based project builds on earlier Tiny11...
XL Converter Puts AVIF and JPEG XL Within Reach for Windows Users
A free and open-source utility called XL Converter is quietly reshaping how Windows and Linux users approach image optimization, packing support for next-generation formats like JPEG XL and AVIF into...
VirtualBox 7.2.2 Arrives with Critical Fixes for Windows on ARM, TPM, and GUI Stability
Oracle has released VirtualBox 7.2.2, a maintenance update that squarely targets the most disruptive regressions introduced in the ambitious 7.2 major release—virtual machines that refused to start...
Windows 10 Share Rebounds Just Weeks Before Support Ends, Complicating Microsoft's Migration Push
Windows 10 usage ticked back upward in August 2025, a surprising reversal that saw the older operating system reclaim ground from Windows 11 just weeks before its October 14 end-of-support deadline....
Windows 11 25H2 Cuts PowerShell 2.0 and WMIC: An IT Migration Blueprint
Microsoft has quietly excised two decades-old administration tools—Windows PowerShell 2.0 and the WMIC command-line utility—from new Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 images starting with the...
Senator Wyden Demands FTC Investigation Into Microsoft’s Insecure Defaults Following Ascension Ransomware Attack
A US Senator is demanding a federal investigation into Microsoft’s security practices after default system configurations were blamed for a devastating ransomware attack that paralyzed one of...