Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Updated November 14 with details of further Microsoft Windows ...

An out-of-band (OOB) security update that patches an actively exploited Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) vulnerability has broken hotpatching on some Windows Server 2025 devices. Days later, the ...

[UPDATE: 2025/11/02 | 01:43 AM EEST] Epic Games has updated its Fortnite downtime status page at 8:30 PM UTC saying “The scheduled maintenance has been completed.” In other words, the server should be ...

Arc Raiders has launched on PC and consoles and wasted no time making noise. It surged past player count milestones in its first day, then Embark Studios jumped straight into polishing the game. Fresh ...

Windows Server 2025 is currently open to a Remote Code Execution exploit via the Windows Update Service, and at the time of this writing a fix from Microsoft has yet to fully patch the issue. Reports ...

Microsoft has released an emergency out-of-band security update for Windows Server to address a probable remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-59287. The issue affects the Windows ...

Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. With data sprawled across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, and edge ...

The SQL Server MCP client is built with .NET Core using the Model Context Protocol C# SDK (github.com/modelcontextprotocol/csharp-sdk). It provides tools for ...

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