Microsoft Disrupts Vanilla Tempest Cloud Attack Campaign
Microsoft Targets Shadowy Threat Actor in Coordinated Takedown Microsoft has launched a targeted disruption campaign against a cybercrime group known as Vanilla…
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Microsoft Lifts Blocks: Windows 11 25H2 Rollout Expands
More Devices Now Eligible for October Feature Update Microsoft has quietly lifted several safeguard holds that were preventing devices from upgrading to…
Microsoft Confirms KB5066835 Bugs in Windows 11 Update
File Explorer Preview, Install Errors, and Localhost Failures Hit Users Microsoft has officially acknowledged multiple bugs in its October cumulative update for…
Windows 10 Updates Now Sold via Microsoft Store
Microsoft Quietly Introduces Paid Upgrade Path via Store Not gonna lie — this one caught me off guard. Microsoft has…
Windows Server Update Breaks Active Directory for Some Users
Login Failures and Replication Errors Reported After October Patch Microsoft’s latest Windows Server update has triggered Active Directory (AD) failures…
Windows 11 Update Breaks Localhost, Forces Rollbacks
Microsoft’s October cumulative update for Windows 11 — KB5066835 — is causing major headaches for developers, sysadmins, and power users.…
EX1173828 – Exchange Shared Mailboxes Boot Users Off Web
Incident ID: EX1173828 | Status: Service Degradation | Date: October 18, 2025 Microsoft has confirmed a service degradation affecting Exchange Online users…
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Microsoft Fixes 3 Zero-Days in Urgent October Patch Drop
It was just past 8 AM in Bengaluru when I saw the first alert. Defender for Endpoint flagged something odd—kernel-level activity that…
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Windows 10 Is Gone—Ipswich Firms Race to Stay Secure
It’s official: Windows 10 is no longer supported. And while the date—October 14, 2025—was marked on calendars months in advance, many Ipswich…
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Walmart + ChatGPT: The Future of Shopping Starts in a Chatbox
Bengaluru, Oct 17, 2025 — I didn’t expect to be writing about Walmart today. But when a retail giant quietly drops news…
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Whisper 2FA: The Phishing Kit That Outsmarted My MFA Setup
Bengaluru, Oct 17, 2025 — A rapidly evolving phishing kit known as Whisper 2FA has been linked to nearly one million attacks…
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Windows 11 Adds Mobile Sidebar to Start Menu
I’ve been running Windows 11 Insider builds on a spare ThinkPad (32GB RAM, Hyper-V enabled) for a while now—mostly to stay ahead…
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Microsoft Word Now Saves files to OneDrive by Default
Word’s New Default: OneDrive First, Local Second A tech admin’s take on Microsoft’s cloud-first shift I’ve been watching Microsoft nudge users toward…
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Windows 10 Upgrade Blocked: Media Creation Tool Fails
I didn’t expect my last Windows 10 upgrade to turn into a troubleshooting marathon—but here we are. With the October 14, 2025…
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Azure Outage Disrupts Microsoft 365 Across EMEA Regions
It’s not every day that you wake up to a full-blown cloud disruption across three continents. October 9, 2025, was one of…
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Microsoft’s $30B AI Leap Reshapes Global Tech Infrastructure
I’ve been managing infrastructure since the days when a failed RAID controller could ruin your weekend. So when I heard about Microsoft’s…
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Microsoft Outlook Will Now Auto-Archive Emails
I’ve been managing Exchange environments long enough to know that “Mailbox Full” errors always show up at the worst possible time—usually when…
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Securing Agentic AI: Microsoft’s New Playbook from Ignite 2025
I didn’t walk into Ignite 2025 expecting to rethink my entire security posture—but that’s exactly what happened. If you’ve been following Microsoft’s…
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