A critical security vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Cloud Minifilter has been patched, addressing a race condition that allowed attackers to escalate privileges and create files anywhere on the system. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-55680, was discovered by security researchers at Exodus Intelligence in March 2024 and patched by Microsoft in October 2025. Race Condition Allows […]
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The Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) has announced the uncovering of “irrefutable evidence” pertaining to a cyber-attack
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European law enforcement agencies executed a sweeping operation, codenamed SIMCARTEL, successfully dismantling an international criminal infrastructure that supplied
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Microsoft has lifted two additional safeguards that had previously prevented users from installing the Windows 11 24H2 update
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The Asterisk development team has announced the release of Asterisk 23.0.0, now available for download on GitHub and
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Nearly a year after the announcement of the OpenWrt One router, the community has finally received the long-awaited
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