Microsoft
200 accounts compromised in Swiss government’s Microsoft SharePoint breach
Hackers exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint servers belonging to Switzerland’s Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunication (BIT), …
August 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: How do we deal with the patch apocalypse?
July 2026 Patch Tuesday was record-setting in so many ways. The sheer volume of security patches for almost every product in the Microsoft portfolio was the highest ever and, …
Microsoft extends zero trust deeper into enterprise AI
Microsoft expanded its Zero Trust for AI strategy with updates to the Zero Trust Assessment tool and the Zero Trust Workshop. The additions help organizations assess security …
Russian hackers abuse hotel Wi-Fi networks to steal Microsoft 365 credentials and deploy malware
Midnight Blizzard, the Russian threat actor tied to the country’s foreign intelligence service, has spent months targeting users of public Wi-Fi networks at places like …
Microsoft shortens NuGet API key lifetime to improve supply chain security
Microsoft is reducing the lifetime of new NuGet.org API keys from 365 days to 30 days starting August 17, 2026, to improve the security of NuGet, its package repository for …
Microsoft unveils MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, promises cybersecurity AI at half the cost
Microsoft has introduced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a security-focused AI model built into MDASH, the company’s multi-agent vulnerability identification and remediation system. …
PoC exploit released for critical AD CS domain-takeover flaw (CVE-2026-54121)
Security researchers who discovered and reported CVE-2026-54121 (aka “Certighost”), a critical privilege elevation vulnerability in Active Directory Certificate …
Microsoft tightens Windows enterprise activation security
Microsoft is making Trusted Platform Module (TPM)-backed attestation a requirement for Windows Key Management Service (KMS), the on-premises service used for Windows volume …
Meet Dusseldorf, Microsoft’s open-source out-of-band security platform
Out-of-band vulnerabilities surface when an application quietly reaches out to an external system during an attack, and capturing that traffic calls for infrastructure that …
Microsoft makes Windows SSO prompts easier to manage
Microsoft is introducing a new registry-based policy that lets IT administrators automatically accept Windows SSO permissions on Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 devices …
VS Code agent host runs Copilot, Claude, and Codex in a dedicated process
Developers who lean on AI coding agents often keep several editor windows open at once, each tied to its own session. The 1.129 release of Visual Studio Code reworks that …
ClickFix is changing the economics of social engineering
ClickFix has moved from a one-off social engineering trick into an industrialized attack ecosystem that is outpacing conventional antivirus and endpoint defenses, according to …
Featured news
Resources
Don't miss
- Sovereignty vs. security: Microsoft’s Roger Halbheer says you’re asking the wrong question
- AI agent permissions are outrunning security
- Say a few words, and a rigged AI asks for $5,000
- PHP2Shell: Critical PHP vulnerabilities patched, update now!
- Ransomware gangs have been exploiting Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN flaw since June