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The House of Representatives has quietly moved from prohibition to adoption: according to an Axios briefing shared with reporters, the House will begin rolling out Microsoft Copilot for members and staff as part of a broader push to modernize the chamber and integrate artificial intelligence...

In a deliberately fictional exercise staged by IPAA ACT, a cabinet decision to replace frontline public servants with AI agents culminates in spectacle and sharp lessons: procurement defaults to a dominant vendor, automated casework produces unexpected harms for vulnerable communities, and an...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday delivers a heavy, operationally urgent security package: more than 80 CVEs across Windows, Office, Hyper‑V, Azure components and developer libraries, including eight items Microsoft rates critical and two vulnerabilities that were publicly disclosed before the...

Microsoft released a cumulative security update today for Windows 11’s servicing branches 22621 and 22631 — published as KB5065431 (OS Builds 22621.5909 and 22631.5909) — that combines a Latest Cumulative Update (LCU) with a servicing‑stack update (SSU) and carries a set of security and quality...

Microsoft will audit and then begin enforcing a block on NTLMv1–derived credentials in Windows 11, version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025: the change is gated by a new registry key (BlockNtlmv1SSO), exposes two new NTLM event IDs for Audit vs Enforce behavior, and will be rolled out in phases...

Microsoft has quietly moved one of the most consequential AI experiments of the last year from a sidebar into the very fabric of Excel: the new COPILOT function lets users write plain‑language prompts directly in a cell and receive AI‑generated results that behave like any other formula in the...

Excel’s new COPILOT() function hands everyday spreadsheet users an AI-powered microscope and a blunt instrument at the same time: it can summarize, classify, extract, and generate structured outputs from free-text or tabular data with a single cell formula, but it also introduces new...

CVE-2025-53727 is a SQL Server vulnerability that stems from improper neutralization of special elements used in an SQL command (SQL injection) and — according to Microsoft’s advisory — can allow an authenticated attacker to elevate privileges over a network. What happened (plain English)...

Note: you supplied the MSRC page for CVE-2025-49758 . I attempted to programmatically fetch the MSRC content but the page is rendered with JavaScript and I could not retrieve the full advisory text automatically. Below I’ve written a thorough, actionable, and vendor-agnostic 2000+ word article...

In a significant move aimed at bolstering security and administrative oversight, Microsoft has rolled out version 2.4.129.0 of its Entra Connect Sync service. This update introduces advanced auditing functionalities and performance improvements that promise to streamline how organizations manage...

Hi everyone, I’m looking for advice on securing our Storage Area Network (SAN) within a Windows environment to prevent unauthorized access and ensure data integrity. We’re using an iSCSI SAN with Windows Server 2019, and our primary concerns are: Access Control: Best practices for using Active...

This update adds support for Minimum Password Length auditing and enforcement on certain versions of Windows. Continue reading...

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Revision Note: V1.0 (February 10, 2015): Advisory published. Summary: Microsoft is announcing the availability of an update for supported editions of Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008R2 and Windows Server 2012 that expands the Audit Process Creation policy to include the command...

Revision Note: V1.0 (February 10, 2015): Advisory published. Summary: Microsoft is announcing the availability of an update for supported editions of Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008R2 and Windows Server 2012 that expands the Audit Process Creation policy to include the command...