Articles from 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2025
CVE-2025-7350: 9.6-Severity Stratix IOS Injection Flaw Lets Attackers Hijack Industrial Switches
Rockwell Automation has confirmed a remote injection vulnerability in its Stratix IOS that could allow unauthenticated attackers to upload and execute malicious configurations on industrial switches,...
ABB Patches Critical Authentication Bypass in ASPECT, NEXUS, and MATRIX BMS
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Microsoft Ships Audit-First SMB Hardening to Discover Incompatible Clients Before Enforcement
Microsoft has rolled out built‑in auditing for two critical SMB server hardening features—signing and Extended Protection for Authentication (EPA)—giving administrators a safe,...
Zenity Embeds Inline Attack Prevention in Microsoft Copilot Studio Agents
On May 22, 2025, Zenity unfurled an expanded integration with Microsoft Copilot Studio that embeds native, inline security controls directly into the execution path of enterprise AI agents. The move...
The HLT Instruction: Why Windows 95 Left It Out to Avoid Bricking Laptops
Microsoft shipped Windows 95 without a crucial power-saving CPU instruction—not because the engineers didn’t know how to implement it, but because using it risked turning customers’ laptops...
Microsoft Fixes Windows 11’s Blinding File Dialogs: Dark Mode Hits Copy/Paste in Insider Build 26100.5061
Microsoft has quietly begun fixing one of Windows 11’s most persistent visual annoyances: the long-neglected file operation (copy/move/delete/permission) dialogs are finally receiving proper...
Beyond the Slider: How Windows 11 Power Users Quiet UAC Prompts Without Sacrificing Security
Microsoft shipped User Account Control (UAC) to clamp down on the rampant privilege escalation that plagued Windows XP. Nearly two decades later, the feature still annoys experienced users who know...
KB5063878 Update: When Windows 11 SSDs Disappear Mid-Write – User Data Protection Strategies
A single Windows 11 cumulative update released in August has plunged users into a storage integrity nightmare: SSDs can abruptly vanish from the operating system while writing large files, leaving...
Gartner's 2030 AI Forecast: Hidden Costs, Governance Gaps, and the Real IT Imperative
Most IT tasks today are still human-led, but Gartner says that by 2030, AI will become the operating reality of every technology function. The catch? Hidden costs, governance gaps, and workforce...
Rutgers Business School Partners with Google Cloud to Embed Generative AI into MBA and Core Curriculum
Rutgers Business School is launching a dedicated MBA concentration in Artificial Intelligence starting spring 2025, part of a sweeping initiative that integrates generative AI tools into virtually...
Dockermox: Run Proxmox in Docker for Labs – Not for Production
The idea sounds contradictory: take a full virtualization platform designed to run directly on hardware and stuff it inside a Docker container. Yet a community project called Dockermox does exactly...
Microsoft Sets Teams at $5 Per User in Global Unbundling to Settle EU Probe
Microsoft will sell Teams as a $5-per-user standalone app and offer Office suites without the collaboration tool to customers worldwide, capitulating to a European antitrust probe that began after a...