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CVE-2025-9161: FactoryTalk Optix RCE via MQTT Plugin Loading — Upgrade to 1.6.0 Immediately
Industrial control system operators running Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk Optix visualization platform face a critical threat: a flaw in the product’s embedded MQTT broker allows...
CISA Releases 14 ICS Advisories: Urgent Patches for Rockwell, Schneider, and EG4 Inverter Flaws
{ "title": "CISA Releases 14 ICS Advisories: Urgent Patches for Rockwell, Schneider, and EG4 Inverter Flaws", "content": "The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on September...
Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Activation Manager Vulnerability Allows Remote Decryption and Hijacking
Rockwell Automation has issued an urgent security advisory after a critical cryptographic weakness was discovered in its FactoryTalk Activation Manager, a licensing tool deployed across thousands of...
CISA Warns: Rockwell 1783-NATR Vulnerable to Remote Memory Corruption, Patch Now to v1.007
Rockwell Automation has released an urgent firmware update after the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that a memory allocator bug in the 1783-NATR device could...
CISA Flags Rockwell CompactLogix 5480 Flaw That Lets Attackers Run Code Via Physical Access
Three words can make any plant manager’s blood run cold: arbitrary code execution. That’s what CISA is warning about with a newly republished advisory for the Rockwell Automation CompactLogix...
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
{ "title": "ABB Patches Critical Authentication Bypass in ASPECT, NEXUS, and MATRIX BMS", "content": "ABB has rushed out firmware updates for its ASPECT, NEXUS, and MATRIX building management...
Windows 11's Surprise August Slump: Why Windows 10 Is Gaining Users Before Its Demise
Windows 11’s market share took an unexpected turn in August, falling back below the 50% mark just as Microsoft’s aging Windows 10 gears up for its final days of free support. New data from web...
No Evidence Links Windows 11 KB5063878 to SSD Failures, But 25H2 ISO Remains MIA
Microsoft and SSD controller maker Phison have publicly stated they cannot reproduce the storage failures that ignited panic across social media in August 2025. After thousands of hours of lab...
Windows 10 Support Ends October 2025: Your Complete Survival Guide
On October 14, 2025, Microsoft will permanently stop shipping security patches for Windows 10. For the hundreds of millions of PCs still running the operating system—many of which cannot upgrade to...
Windows 11 24H2 SSD Failures: No Link to KB5063878, But Silent Fix May Be at Play
Microsoft and major SSD controller vendors have found no evidence that August’s KB5063878 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 triggered a systemic wave of solid-state drive failures, but a marked...
Microsoft Warns of Network-Exploitable Edge Bypass Flaw CVE-2025-53791, Urges Immediate Patching
Microsoft has disclosed CVE-2025-53791, a security feature bypass vulnerability in its Chromium-based Edge browser that can be triggered by an attacker over a network. The advisory, published in the...