Today's Top Windows System Articles for 2026-09-27

Microsoft Fixes File History Backup Failures Caused by September Windows Updates

Microsoft has fixed a known issue that stopped the File History backup feature from working on some Windows PCs after the September 2026 security updates were i Thank you for being a Ghacks reader. Th...

gHacks

Sep 25, 2026 - ghacks.net

Project leader thought his team understood the plan, ended up fixing their 'interpretation' of it

Malicious compliance crosses cultural barriers

www.theregister.com - Articles

Sep 25, 2026 - theregister.com

Nvidia driver version 389.12

Hi guys. Can anyone help me with th link for NVidia driver version 389.12 (for GTX 980M), not above version not below, just strictly that version. I know why that version but not important. Need pa...

Windows 10 Help Forums

Sep 25, 2026 - tenforums.com

‘SalesBleed’ Flaws in Salesforce Agentforce Enabled Zero-Click Data Exfiltration

Three vulnerabilities in Salesforce Agentforce allowed hackers to hijack trusted agents, steal data, and launch phishing attacks. The post ‘SalesBleed’ Flaws in Salesforce Agentforce Enabled Zero-Clic...

SecurityWeek

Sep 25, 2026 - securityweek.com

Security Copilot Included in Microsoft 365 E5 and E7 with Integrated Security Agents

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/AnoopCNairSCCM?sub_confirmation=1 and LinkedIn page for latest updates htt...

HTMD Community Intune Windows Modern Workplace Device Management

Sep 25, 2026 - anoopcnair.com

Your files are in four places and nobody knows which one is right

Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner on the file infrastructure nobody has got round to replacing, under the Chatham House Rule.

www.theregister.com - Articles

Sep 25, 2026 - theregister.com

Party Invite Phishing Scams Are the New Missed Connections

Email scams that look like an Evite or Paperless Post invitation are meant to snatch your data. For some, they've become an excuse to reconnect with old friends or flames.

WIRED

Sep 25, 2026 - wired.com

How do you safely test an AI agent that’s trying to break things?

A new report from the cybersecurity research organization Transluce shows that swarms of OpenAI agents tried to hack their way into several public data sources earlier this year. They probed a pharmac...

Fast Company - technology

Sep 25, 2026 - fastcompany.com

New FinOps for AI capabilities: Control spend, measure value, and optimize for impact

A shared discipline for control, value, and optimization AI is moving quickly from experimentation to scaled use across people, teams, and services. As adoption grows, leaders need better answers to p...

New blog articles in Microsoft Community Hub

Sep 25, 2026 - techcommunity.microsoft.com

Microsoft’s new Copilot signals a shift in their AI strategy for Windows & enterprise. Are we past the gimmick phase?

Microsoft’s new Copilot isn’t just a UI refresh — it represents a major shift in how the company wants AI to function across Windows. The assistant is being unified, simplified, and repositioned as th...

Latest from Windows Central

Sep 25, 2026 - windowscentral.com

Another week, another data breach for Revolut customers

DriveWealth coughs up historic customer info after attackers socially engineer their way inside

www.theregister.com - Articles

Sep 25, 2026 - theregister.com

WordPress Flaw Under Active Attack: Hackers Target CVE-2026-87902 for Code Execution

Hackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-87902, a critical WordPress flaw that can lead to remote code execution. Here’s what admins should do. The post WordPress Flaw Under Active Attack: Hackers Tar...

TechRepublic

Sep 25, 2026 - techrepublic.com

Microsoft Copilot App Gets Home, Code, and Autopilot Features to Expand Automation

Organizations are increasingly moving beyond AI-powered chat tools to automate more complex business processes. However, as AI adoption scales, managing growing numbers of AI agents, maintaining overs...

Petri IT Knowledgebase

Sep 25, 2026 - petri.com

Google Chrome 154 Fixes 108 Security Flaws: 11 Are Rated Critical

Google Chrome 154 fixes 108 security vulnerabilities, including 11 Critical flaws. Here’s what users and IT teams should do now. The post Google Chrome 154 Fixes 108 Security Flaws: 11 Are Rated Criti...

TechRepublic

Sep 25, 2026 - techrepublic.com

Dyfed-Powys Police cops to cyberattack, staff data potentially nicked

Force says public data appears untouched, but investigators looking into whether crims grabbed employee information

www.theregister.com - Articles

Sep 25, 2026 - theregister.com

Social Media Bans Aren’t Enough to Make Children Safe

Even before France approved legislation banning social media for children under 15 last January, 13-year-old Benjamin was already wondering what life without social media would look like. “If we want ...

IEEE Spectrum

Sep 25, 2026 - spectrum.ieee.org

HCS invests €1.45m as it launches 24/7 managed services capability

HCS, the Irish IT managed services and digital transformation company, has announced a €1.45m investment as it launches its 24/7 managed support capability for Irish and international customers. The s...

Irish Tech News

Sep 25, 2026 - irishtechnews.ie

BOFH: The Helldesk opens its third eye and ascends to a higher plane of troubleshooting

Putting the 'om' in computing

www.theregister.com - Articles

Sep 25, 2026 - theregister.com

Amazon sellers watch as inventory vanishes into pending-order purgatory

High-value goods remain tied up as merchants debate attack or platform glitch

www.theregister.com - Articles

Sep 25, 2026 - theregister.com

CISA warns of Sharepoint, WSO2, Adobe Commerce flaws exploited in attacks

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns that hackers are exploiting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-5430) affecting multiple products from enterprise...

BleepingComputer

Sep 25, 2026 - bleepingcomputer.com

The Growing Trust Problem in AI-Powered IT Recruitment

According to Neil Costa, Founder and CEO of HireClix, the most important challenge facing recruitment may no longer be efficiency. It may be trust. I sat down recently with Neil and we discussed the f...

Petri IT Knowledgebase

Sep 25, 2026 - petri.com

Elementor WordPress flaw lets attackers create admin accounts

A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Elementor plugin for WordPress could allow an unauthenticated attacker to create administrator accounts. [...]

BleepingComputer

Sep 25, 2026 - bleepingcomputer.com

Tech Moves: Microsoft AI exec joins Niantic Spatial; Allen fund names first investment chief; Zillow AI leader heads to Stripe

Niantic Spatial hired Microsoft AI product leader Dave Citron as chief product officer, the late Paul Allen's Fund for Science and Technology named Brown University's Jane Dietze its first chief inves...

GeekWire

Sep 25, 2026 - geekwire.com

Google Waffle Sign-in Error

$1 submitted by /u/berkettj

Reddit : K-12 Systems Administrators

Sep 25, 2026 - reddit.com

Uncle Sam wants in on Musk's €120M fight with Brussels

Justice Department claims the EU overreached by pursuing X's owner and wider corporate empire

www.theregister.com - Articles

Sep 25, 2026 - theregister.com

Some staff clicked Phishing links

$1 submitted by /u/MasterMaintenance672

Reddit : K-12 Systems Administrators

Sep 25, 2026 - reddit.com

Windows update leaves some virtual desktops staring into the void

Users may need to summon Explorer manually after signing in

www.theregister.com - Articles

Sep 25, 2026 - theregister.com

Storm-3168: Agentic-driven cloud attacks using compromised service principals

Microsoft details JADEPUFFER-linked Azure reconnaissance, resource deletion, and credential access using compromised service principals, identifying the activity as associated with Storm-3168 and prov...

Microsoft Security Blog

Sep 25, 2026 - microsoft.com

The case for embracing AI’s inhumanity

Hello again, and welcome once again to Fast Company’s Plugged In. “What we are building is your second brain, your aide, your consigliere, your reliable chief of staff in your pocket.” That was Mi...

Fast Company - technology

Sep 25, 2026 - fastcompany.com

iOS 27: Why you should learn to love Impersonation Risk Detection

I once had a friend who gave $1,000 to an online fraudster who claimed to be a tax assessor. My own father (bless his soul) once managed to hand over several hundred pounds to a lawyer from Africa pro...

Computerworld

Sep 25, 2026 - computerworld.com

SharePoint AI innovations hit GA, powering new Copilot app and agents

Today we announced the new Copilot app, bringing together how people assist, delegate, build, and automate work in one experience powered by Work IQ. Because Work IQ grounds these experiences in your ...

New blog articles in Microsoft Community Hub

Sep 25, 2026 - techcommunity.microsoft.com

slmgr.vbs replacement in PowerShell using the OSLicense module

We all know that VBScript has been deprecated and will be removed in future Windows releases. The PowerShell OSLicense module helps you activate licenses, query them, and more. In this blog post, I wi...

PowerShell is fun :)

Sep 25, 2026 - powershellisfun.com

KB5002907 may deactivate Office 2016 and 2019 licenses

A recent optional Microsoft 365 Apps update may be stripping activation from Office 2016 and Office 2019 installations, forcing users to re-enter product keys. The suspected KB5002907 issue can affect...

4sysops

Sep 25, 2026 - 4sysops.com

Microsoft Access 2609 fixes troublesome Zoom and VBA bugs

Microsoft Access Version 2609 (Build 16.0.20430.20092) is now available in the Current Channel with a broad set of fixes for Zoom, forms, queries, and VBA. The update targets visual glitches in zoomed...

4sysops

Sep 25, 2026 - 4sysops.com

ShinyHunters hacked Clop leak site using Grav CMS path traversal flaw

The Clop ransomware gang has moved its data leak site to a new Tor address after confirming its previous server was compromised and defaced through an unpatched Grav CMS flaw that BleepingComputer has...

BleepingComputer

Sep 25, 2026 - bleepingcomputer.com

Which copy of that file is the real one? Dinner, off the record, in Midtown

Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner in New York on the file infrastructure nobody has got around to replacing, with nothing on the record.

www.theregister.com - Articles

Sep 25, 2026 - theregister.com

Office 2016 and 2019 holdouts blame update for license deactivation bug

But was the update at fault? Microsoft isn't saying

www.theregister.com - Articles

Sep 25, 2026 - theregister.com

Microsoft’s new Copilot ‘super app’ unifies chat, code, agents

Microsoft’s Copilot “super app” has arrived, two months after CEO Satya Nadella confirmed it was in development. It combines conversational Chat, the autonomous Cowork agent, a redesigned coding envir...

Computerworld

Sep 25, 2026 - computerworld.com

watchOS 27 upgrades popular Apple Watch face with new options

Apple Watch offers lots of custom faces to personalize your Watch, and the popular Modular face gets even more versatile in watchOS 27. more…

9to5Mac

Sep 25, 2026 - 9to5mac.com

Understanding Azure Container Apps Costs: From Replica Reservations to Running Nodes - Part 1

Welcome to Part 1 of our three-part blog series, where we begin exploring the topic in depth. This part is all about Concepts, Scaling, and Dedicated profile cost.  It does not cover Consumption profi...

New blog articles in Microsoft Community Hub

Sep 25, 2026 - techcommunity.microsoft.com

Kiteworks urges 6-hour server shutdown over potential zero-day attacks

Secure file-sharing software company Kiteworks is urging customers worldwide to temporarily shut down their servers on Saturday for a six-hour window after receiving threat intelligence warning of a p...

BleepingComputer

Sep 25, 2026 - bleepingcomputer.com

AI tools help hacker break in for $25 per target

It’s cheap to set yourself up as a hacker these days using AI. Someone attacked 105 online retailers over a period of five days, compromising 27 of them — all for an average of $25 per attack, accordi...

Computerworld

Sep 25, 2026 - computerworld.com

Attackers Target Unpatched Roundcube Servers With CVE-2026-48842

Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-48842 against unpatched Roundcube servers months after a fix was released, raising urgency for organizations to update. The post Attackers Target Unpatched Roundcube ...

TechRepublic

Sep 25, 2026 - techrepublic.com

What We Missed: Google Gemini Joins the AI Escape Party

In this video conversation, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn't get a chance to cover, from Google Gemini models breaking containment to ShinyHunters ratting on TeamPCP hackers.

darkreading

Sep 25, 2026 - darkreading.com

Partner Blog | The new Copilot is here: The opportunity for Microsoft partners

AI at Work is entering a new phase as customers look beyond individual productivity gains to AI that can take on complex work, build solutions, and automate business processes. The next evolution of F...

New blog articles in Microsoft Community Hub

Sep 25, 2026 - techcommunity.microsoft.com

Azure IoT Central is evolving: what you need to know

On September 23, 2026, Microsoft announced guidance that will help Azure IoT Central customers migrate their solutions to use new features of Azure IoT Hub and Microsoft Fabric. The new approach lever...

New blog articles in Microsoft Community Hub

Sep 25, 2026 - techcommunity.microsoft.com

W11 and W10 Dual Boot -- Licensing Issue?

I was looking for a recent thread to add to it but could not find it so I am starting another. I have a HP Envy 17 laptop which was initially on W10 and HP has upgraded it to W11. It has a digital ...

Windows 10 Help Forums

Sep 25, 2026 - tenforums.com

From Camera to Canvas: How Multimodal GenAI Automates Shop Floor Instructions

Scenario Across the industry, manufacturing organizations spend significant engineering effort converting tribal knowledge and assembly demonstrations into standardized work instructions. This process...

New blog articles in Microsoft Community Hub

Sep 25, 2026 - techcommunity.microsoft.com

Bitget blames North Korea for $387.5M crypto wallet raid

Familiar fingerprints point to Kim’s regime … to the surprise of nobody

www.theregister.com - Articles

Sep 25, 2026 - theregister.com

Kiteworks warns customers to shut down servers amid credible threat

Kiteworks is warning customers to shut down servers after law enforcement flagged a credible threat, with a possible zero-day attack and no confirmed breach.

BetaNews

Sep 25, 2026 - betanews.com

ShinyHunters tells The Reg: We hacked the FBI to 'protect our business'

Data theft and extortion biz, that is

www.theregister.com - Articles

Sep 25, 2026 - theregister.com

Apple faces class action over Apple Pay fees charged to card issuers

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White has certified a class-action lawsuit accusing Apple of charging payment card issuers inflated fees for Apple Pay transactions. Here are the details. more…

9to5Mac

Sep 25, 2026 - 9to5mac.com

CoreDNS in AKS: service discovery, upstream DNS, and failover

Table of Contents 1. Where CoreDNS fits in AKS 2. How a pod gets a DNS answer Cluster Service names Names handled by another DNS server LocalDNS can change the first hop 3. What AKS manages and wha...

New blog articles in Microsoft Community Hub

Sep 25, 2026 - techcommunity.microsoft.com

Fake Google Security Team ad says 'no script reading' in voice phishing - then prints the script

More mockery and memes from the Dark Web Roast

www.theregister.com - Articles

Sep 25, 2026 - theregister.com

FBI confirms investigation after ShinyHunters claims breach

The FBI has confirmed it is investigating ShinyHunters’ claimed theft of employee and applicant data, after the group said its PeopleSoft zero-day attack on FBIjobs.gov was intended to protect its cri...

4sysops

Sep 25, 2026 - 4sysops.com

Windows 11 26H1 fixes Hyper-V folder sharing in new Insider builds

Windows 11 26H1 Insider builds 28020.3112 and 28120.3122 repair a Hyper-V file-sharing failure that affected Linux virtual machines. The updates follow Cloud rebuild support for unbootable PCs, but th...

4sysops

Sep 25, 2026 - 4sysops.com

CISA adds WSO2, Adobe Commerce, SharePoint, and MikroTik RouterOS flaws to KEV catalog

CISA has added four vulnerabilities affecting WSO2, Adobe Commerce, Microsoft SharePoint, and MikroTik RouterOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. WSO2 exploitation attempts involved forg...

4sysops

Sep 25, 2026 - 4sysops.com

Alternatives to Windows Deployment Services (WDS) and Preboot Execution Environment (PXE)

Microsoft plans to deprecate the Windows Deployment Services (WDS) server role, including its Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) boot functionality, starting with the next Windows Server release. WDS...

4sysops

Sep 25, 2026 - 4sysops.com

U.S. Soldier Gets 70 Months in Prison for AT&T, Verizon Extortions

A U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty to hacking into multiple telecommunications companies and stealing mobile call and text metadata for more than 100 million AT&T customers in 2024 was sentenced t...

Krebs on Security

Sep 25, 2026 - krebsonsecurity.com

Reviving the PoE++ Feature on a Ubiquiti Switch

Recently [The Parallel Port] was asked to take a look at repairing the PoE++ feature on a Ubiquiti switch that otherwise worked fine. This is a pretty nice 24-port rackmounted …read more

Blog – Hackaday

Sep 25, 2026 - hackaday.com

Apple’s dimensional drawings offer a fascinating look at its product designs

Not everyone knows this (and I won’t even pretend that I did), but Apple publishes remarkably detailed dimensional drawings for dozens of its devices to help accessory makers design products around th...

9to5Mac

Sep 25, 2026 - 9to5mac.com

'The prophecy is fulfilled': Popular 2020 XKCD comic predicted 'HEIF Heist' OpenAI hack and even mentions ImageMagick in spooky coincidence

Fast forward to 2026, and researchers rode ImageMagick straight into OpenAI's internal GitHub.

Latest from TechRadar

Sep 26, 2026 - techradar.com

The Low-Level Waste Dumps in The Atlantic Have Become Ecosystems

Recently French and international researchers took a look at the state of the thousands of barrels of radioactive waste that were dumped into the Atlantic Ocean between 1950 and 1990, …read more

Blog – Hackaday

Sep 26, 2026 - hackaday.com

Graph API adds (limited) support for onPremisesExtensionAttributes for group objects

After a long, long wait, the Graph API finally adds support for onPremisesExtensionAttributes for group objects. It's not all good news though, as there are some severe limitations in the current impl...

PowerShell – Blog

Sep 26, 2026 - michev.info

Apple iOS 27: 4 must-try new productivity features, from a Siri AI calendar shortcut to Notes app perks

After months of beta testing, the iPhone’s newest operating system, iOS 27, is now available. This year, Apple focused on artificial intelligence features, smaller improvements, and bug fixes, making ...

Fast Company - technology

Sep 26, 2026 - fastcompany.com

Space Jam: UK debuts space squadron to protect satellites

Number III Space Effects Squadron likely to use electronic warfare rather than lobbing missiles at hostile orbiting threats

www.theregister.com - Articles

Sep 26, 2026 - theregister.com

Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free

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Hacker News

Sep 26, 2026 - gultsch.de

You Can Make a Microprocessor That’s All Your Own

For a while now we’ve followed the slow progression of affordable integrated circuit fabrication, and through the likes of Tiny Tapeout we’ve seen impressive strides made. But they’re not the …read mo...

Blog – Hackaday

Sep 26, 2026 - hackaday.com

Go 1.27 Introduces Platform-Independent SIMD: A Game-Changer for High-Performance Computing

Bridging the SIMD Gap: Go's Revolutionary Approach Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) operations have long been the secret weapon of high-performance computing, enabling processors to execute the...

TechPlanet

Sep 26, 2026 - techplanet.today

Office 2007 - reinstall - security updates

Good morning, I have a win 10 (22H2) laptop. There was a fully updated installation of Office 2007. Having had been away, with the machine off for an hour, when I restarted the machine, the Offi...

Windows 10 Help Forums

Sep 26, 2026 - tenforums.com

System freeze on Windows 10

I had two systems freezes for about a month now. It started just a few days after the Windows 10 august patches which came on the 8:th of august. I recently just had my second system freeze. Mousep...

Windows 10 Help Forums

Sep 26, 2026 - tenforums.com

Apple @ Work: The enterprise needs to kill the SSO tax, and it’s an opportunity for Apple

Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional grade platform all the solutions necessary t...

9to5Mac

Sep 26, 2026 - 9to5mac.com

ShinyHunters uses WAF bypass trick in Oracle PeopleSoft attacks

The ShinyHunters extortion gang is using a URL-encoding trick to bypass web application firewall rules that mitigate the Oracle PeopleSoft CVE-2026-35273 flaw, allowing the threat actors to resume wid...

BleepingComputer

Sep 26, 2026 - bleepingcomputer.com

Live show: Amazon, Meta and the fight over the future of AI; Plus, is Seattle still the place to build?

This week: Amazon is blocking Meta’s new Muse AI assistant from shopping on Amazon.com, saying the agent doesn’t identify itself and… Read More

GeekWire

Sep 26, 2026 - geekwire.com

Microsoft shares fix as KB5002907 accidentally breaks licenses, deletes Windows Office apps

Microsoft has admitted that KB5002907, the latest Office update, is buggy as it invalidates licenses and even deletes apps. A manual fix has been shared. Read more...

Neowin

Sep 26, 2026 - neowin.net

WoW: Forever has me excited, but Blizzard needs to tread carefully — the player base will be seriously split in its current state

After a week with WoW: Forever, I'm cautiously optimistic, although I can't help thinking about a few potential decisions that will affect a wide range of players.

Latest from TechRadar

Sep 26, 2026 - techradar.com

Google researcher explains why Windows NT “puts Linux to shame,” and imagines an alternate history where it won

A Google researcher and former Microsoft engineer argues that Windows NT's unified object model still puts Linux to shame. As AI agents demand stricter containment, Laurie Kirk explains why NT was bui...

Windows Latest

Sep 26, 2026 - windowslatest.com

KB5124163 Windows 11 Insider Beta (26H1) build 28020.3112 - Sept. 25

Windows 11 Forum

Sep 26, 2026 - elevenforum.com

Is your smart TV a secret proxy? LG to suspend rogue apps, Samsung sets impacted too

Windows 11 Forum

Sep 26, 2026 - elevenforum.com

How to determine which program stops safe ejection of a device

Windows 11 Forum

Sep 26, 2026 - elevenforum.com

Random reboots, BlueSOD & BlackSOD, Event Viewer show random events

Windows 11 Forum

Sep 26, 2026 - elevenforum.com