Articles from 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2026
Apple Upgrade Leases iPhones and Macs—Ownership Requires an Extra Payment
Apple has rolled out Apple Upgrade, a device leasing program that covers iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches, replacing the long-running iPhone Upgrade Program. Unlike the old program—which was...
Legacy KNX Devices Left Vulnerable as ABB Confirms No Fix for Firmware Spoofing
On July 28, 2026, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published an advisory from ABB detailing a critical weakness in the company’s KNX Update Tool. ABB has no plans to...
Microsoft and Apple Update Printer Troubleshooting in 2026: Stop Reinstalling Drivers First
Your printer has paper, the power light is steady, and Windows still insists it’s offline. The document sits in the queue, mocking you. For decades, the standard fix was to rip out the driver and...
Critical 9.8-Rated Flaws Hit Siemens S7-1500 MFP Controllers, No Fix Available—Defense Steps You Must Take Now
Siemens has disclosed a batch of high-severity vulnerabilities in the additional GNU/Linux subsystem that ships with firmware V3.1.6 for its SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518(F)-4 PN/DP MFP controllers. There...
Ace Combat 8 Locks Out Older PCs with Ray Tracing and Windows 11 Mandate
Bandai Namco dropped the PC system requirements for Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve this week, and they immediately sent the Windows gaming community into a scramble. The official Steam listing demands...
Siemens Desigo CC Hit by 9.8-Severity OpenSSL Bug, V7 Users Face Hard Choices
A critical stack‑buffer overflow in OpenSSL has reached Siemens’ Desigo CC building‑management platform, and the patch isn’t universal. While V8 and V9 deployments can update to a fixed...
Siemens PLCSIM Advanced Flaw Exposes Industrial Simulation PCs to DoS Attacks, Mitigations Urged
A high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability in Siemens’ widely used PLC simulation software, SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM Advanced, threatens to disrupt engineering workflows on Windows-based industrial...
CISA’s New OT Isolation Guide Tells Critical Infrastructure: Plan to Run Offline for Months
Critical infrastructure operators now have a playbook for the worst-case scenario: disconnect your industrial systems from the internet, corporate networks, cloud services, and vendor remote...
CISA Flags MikroTik API Login Flaw: Disable Remote Access or Risk Compromise
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published an advisory highlighting a critical weakness in MikroTik’s RouterOS platform. As of July 28, 2026, the API service on these...
Mendix's Hidden Account Leak: How a Documentation Gap Created a 9.1-Severity Access Control Flaw
Siemens issued a critical security advisory on July 14, 2026, for all versions of Mendix Runtime, warning that a long-standing documentation gap can cause deployed applications to expose user...
Teams Vishing Attack Pushed Chaos Ransomware in Under 17 Hours, Sophos Finds
Sophos has exposed a fast-moving Microsoft Teams voice-phishing campaign that dropped Chaos ransomware on at least three organizations, with one victim seeing encryption begin less than 17 hours...
Syskit Governance Tools Land at Exponant to Tame Microsoft 365 Sprawl
Exponant has begun offering Syskit Point—a governance platform for Microsoft 365—to its customers, aiming to give organizations a single pane of glass for managing the sprawl of Teams,...