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Windows 10 Still Runs on 53% of PCs: Your Urgent Migration Roadmap Before October 14
More than half of the world’s PCs—53% to be precise—are still running Windows 10, a staggering statistic just weeks before Microsoft officially retires the operating system on October 14, 2025....
Windows 11 Gains AI Features in September Patches, Two Zero‑Days Fixed, Windows 10’s End Looms
Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday arrived with 81 security fixes, two actively exploited zero‑day vulnerabilities, and a clear message: Windows 11 is the future, while Windows 10 enters its...
Urgent: EcoStruxure SMB Flaw Leaks Credentials, DoS Threatens Smart Buildings
Schneider Electric and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published revised advisories on August 12, 2025, detailing two vulnerabilities in the EcoStruxure Building...
Windows 10 End of Support: 60% of Corporate Devices Still Unready as October Deadline Hits
October 14, 2025, marks the definitive end of free security updates, feature patches, and technical support for Windows 10—but with barely months to go, up to 60% of corporate devices and 53% of...
Microsoft’s September Patches Put a Target on SMB and HPC—81 CVEs, One Public Disclosure
Microsoft’s September 2025 security update lands with 81 freshly patched vulnerabilities, and the mix is anything but quiet: a publicly disclosed Server Message Block (SMB) elevation-of-privilege...
Critical Hyper-V Escapes and SMB Audit Headline Microsoft's September Patch Blitz
Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday delivers more than 80 security fixes — eight of them rated critical — and introduces new SMB audit tooling designed to let administrators discover and harden...
80 Fixes in September 2025 Patch Tuesday: SMB Audit Tool, NTFS RCE, and NTLM EoP Patched
Microsoft’s September 2025 Patch Tuesday landed with 80 security fixes, including a novel SMB hardening advisory that provides audit capabilities rather than a traditional vulnerability patch,...
Microsoft Deploys SMB Relay Attack Auditing in CVE-2025-55234, Urges Phased Hardening Before Enforcement
Microsoft has released CVE-2025-55234 not as a traditional patch for a new vulnerability, but as a strategic operational toolkit designed to help administrators audit and harden their SMB...
Windows NTLM Vulnerability Lets Attackers Escalate Privileges Over the Network — Patch Immediately
Microsoft is urging Windows administrators to patch a critical improper authentication vulnerability in NT LAN Manager (NTLM) that allows an authenticated attacker to elevate privileges over a...
Rockwell Patches Critical SSRF Flaw in ThinManager That Exposes NTLM Hashes to Attackers
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) reissued a high-severity advisory on September 9, 2025, for a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Rockwell...
SMB Signing Defaults, AES-256 Encryption Arrive as Microsoft Retires CIFS
Microsoft has flipped the switch on mandatory SMB signing for all outbound connections, a quiet but decisive blow against the 30-year-old CIFS dialect that still haunts enterprise networks. Windows...
Microsoft Patches Publicly Disclosed ‘BadSuccessor’ Kerberos Zero-Day and Exchange Hybrid Cloud Threat in August 2025 Update
Microsoft’s August 2025 security update patches a publicly disclosed Kerberos privilege escalation flaw and a dangerous Exchange hybrid vulnerability that could let attackers hop from on-premises...