New Splunk Windows Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation Attacks

Splunk for Windows has a high-severity flaw that lets local users escalate privileges through misconfigured file permissions.
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These 6 Windows tools automate the boring tasks you do every day

AutoHotkey is a free scripting language that lets you automate almost anything on Windows. You write a script, save it as an ...

Microsoft Issues Unannounced Patch for Zero-Day LNK Vulnerability Used in Real-World Attacks

Microsoft quietly patched CVE-2025-9491, a Windows LNK flaw abused by state actors since 2017 for malware attacks ...
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Windows shortcuts’ use as a vector for malware may be cut short

A third-party patch management company is cutting short attackers’ use of LNK files to smuggle in malicious commands, while ...
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This tiny utility saves me hours when batch-editing photos

Editing photos with Gemini may be better than Photoshop, but it won't write your image metadata for you. Thankfully, I found this tiny command-line utility that handles metadata beautifully, saving me ...
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Microsoft Silently Mitigated Exploited LNK Vulnerability

Microsoft has silently mitigated CVE-2025-9491, a Windows vulnerability exploited to distribute malware via LNK files ...