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VirtualBox 7.2 Lands Native Windows 11 on Arm Support and NVMe for All
VirtualBox 7.2.0, released today, shatters a long-standing barrier by letting users run Windows 11 Arm virtual machines directly on Arm-based hosts—whether that host is a Windows on Arm laptop, a...
Microsoft’s August Patches Slam Shut 107+ Holes, Including Public Kerberos Flaw and Critical GDI+ RCE
On August 12, 2025, Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday arrived with a payload heavy enough to keep IT admins working through the night. The security slate covers at least 107 distinct...
Windows 10 Users Urged to Secure a Verified ISO Now Before Microsoft Pulls the Plug in October
Microsoft has locked in October 14, 2025, as the final end of support for Windows 10, and the clock is ticking for anyone who plans to keep running or repairing systems after that date. The company...
Microsoft patches Kerberos 'BadSuccessor' flaw and critical image-parsing bugs in August update
On August 12, 2025, Microsoft shipped its monthly security bundle, and it's one of those months that makes sysadmins reach for extra coffee. Two critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities...
Domain Controllers at Risk: Microsoft’s August Update Closes Kerberos dMSA Vulnerability Amid 100+ Fixes
Microsoft’s August 2025 Patch Tuesday release lands with an urgent fix for a Kerberos vulnerability that could allow attackers to escalate to domain administrator, alongside more than a dozen other...
Kerberos Bug, Graphics RCEs Top Microsoft’s 111-Fix August Patch Tuesday
Microsoft’s August 2025 Patch Tuesday landed on August 12 with a hefty 111 vulnerability fixes, marking one of the largest monthly releases in recent memory. A dozen of these are marked critical,...
Azure VM Spoofing Flaw CVE-2025-49707: Microsoft Patches Local Access Control Bypass
Microsoft has confirmed and released fixes for CVE-2025-49707, a critical improper access control vulnerability in Azure Virtual Machines that enables an attacker with local access to impersonate...
Microsoft: CVE-2025-48807 Hyper V Exploit Demands Local Access, Yet Threatens Entire Host Infrastructures
Despite a CVE title suggesting a remote code execution flaw, Microsoft confirmed this week that CVE‑2025‑48807—a vulnerability in Hyper‑V’s Virtualization Service Provider (VSP)...
CVE-2025-53723: Hyper‑V Truncation Bug Hands Local Attackers SYSTEM Control
Microsoft has published an advisory for a new elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability in Windows Hyper‑V that could allow an authorized attacker on an affected host to escalate privileges and take...
CVE-2025-24050: Microsoft Patches High-Risk Hyper-V Heap Overflow That Enables Full Host Takeover
Microsoft’s March 2025 Patch Tuesday included a fix for CVE-2025-24050, a heap‑based buffer overflow in Windows Hyper‑V that allows an attacker with local access to escalate privileges all the...
Microsoft Warns of DirectX Kernel DoS Flaw That Can Crash Hosts Through Unchecked Graphics Allocations
Microsoft has issued a security advisory for CVE-2025-50172, a vulnerability in the DirectX Graphics Kernel that allows an authenticated attacker to exhaust system resources and cause a...
Urgent Fix: Hyper-V Race Condition CVE-2025-50167 Lets Attackers Seize Host Control
Microsoft has confirmed a dangerous race condition in Windows Hyper-V that gives an attacker with low-level access a path to full host compromise, escalating privileges to the kernel level. Tagged...