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Windows PCs That Manage Factory Cameras Now a Prime Target Thanks to Critical Cognex Flaws
Nine high‑severity vulnerabilities in Cognex’s decades‑old In‑Sight camera platform can let an attacker steal credentials, tamper with production settings, or knock devices offline — and...
Windows Security’s Quiet Rise: The Built-In Protections That Make Paid Antivirus Optional
Microsoft’s built-in Windows Security suite has reached a tipping point. Once dismissed as a bare-bones scanner, it now layers ransomware controls, cloud-driven threat intelligence, app-execution...
When Defender Quarantines Your Files: How to Restore, Exclude, and Stay Secure on Windows
Microsoft Defender stops thousands of threats every day, silently quarantining files it deems suspicious. But when it snags a trusted installer or a home-grown script, the silence turns into...
Microsoft PC Manager Vulnerability Leaks Passwords — Patch Available
Microsoft has confirmed a troubling security flaw in PC Manager, its free system maintenance utility for Windows, that stores sensitive information in plain text, leaving credentials and other...
The Conficker Catastrophe: How a 2008 Patch Gap Created a 9-Million-Node Botnet
On October 23, 2008, Microsoft released an out‑of‑cycle emergency security update — MS08‑067 — to plug a critical wormable vulnerability in the Windows Server service. Three months later,...
Windows 11 KB5065426 Outage: Duplicate SIDs, Legacy SMBv1 Blamed for Network Share Failures
Microsoft’s September 2025 Patch Tuesday cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 landed on September 9, and within hours IT forums lit up with reports of broken file and printer sharing. KB5065426...
Windows 10’s October 2025 Deadline Is Firm: Here Are the Only 5 Ways to Stay Secure
Windows 10 will receive its final free security patches on October 14, 2025. When that date passes, any PC still running the operating system without a paid extension or a workaround will be...
Microsoft Defender Antivirus Now Matches Paid Suites in Protection, Lab Tests Confirm
Independent test labs now rank Microsoft’s built-in antivirus among the top performers for both protection and system impact, erasing years of reputation as a bare-minimum solution. AV‑TEST...
Microsoft's September Patch Tuesday: 86 Fixes, Yet Zero-Day Questions Remain
Microsoft shipped 86 security patches on September 9, 2025, addressing a sprawling set of vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, SQL Server, and other platforms. Yet only hours after the release, a...
Research Solutions Launches AI Rights Add-On to Make Literature Analysis Legally Safe for Enterprises
Enterprise researchers can now legally use generative AI to mine paywalled scientific papers without infringing copyright – so long as they buy a newly launched licensing add-on. Research Solutions...
8 Windows 11 Privacy Settings to Change Right Now: Stop Telemetry, Ad Tracking, and Location Sharing
Microsoft's Windows 11 ships with a host of cloud-connected features that, by default, share your location, app usage, and even an advertising ID with Microsoft and third-party apps. While these...
CISA Flags Active Exploitation of Critical DELMIA Apriso RCE Vulnerability
CISA has added CVE-2025-5086, a critical deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability in Dassault Systèmes’ DELMIA Apriso, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence...