data security

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly breached its own promise: for the second time in eight months the assistant’s retrieval pipeline processed data explicitly labeled as confidential, and — crucially — no existing DLP, EDR, or WAF in the conventional security stack raised an alert. Background...

I once asked the Copilot for some explanation, and it came up with a reference to one of my files on Onedrive. The Copilot is a powerful search engine, and it is my data, I have the right to accessing it, I know, but a Copilot searching through my data, makes me rather nervous. Has the Copilot...

Microsoft’s mobile Microsoft 365 Copilot update that swaps the old document viewer for an AI‑first, chat‑centred workflow is now colliding with real world expectations — and, according to multiple user reports and one recent Windows Latest investigation, that collision can result in local files...

Microsoft appears to have completed the global rollout of Scheduled Copilot prompts to Microsoft 365 Copilot users in Teams and related surfaces — but the story is less a single “flip-the-switch” moment than a staged, admin-controlled deployment that brings real automation power to everyday...

I opened the Recycle Bin, hit Empty, and felt a familiar little relief—until a recovery app showed me files I had deleted months earlier, untouched and perfectly recoverable. Background / Overview The everyday mental model most Windows users have is simple: delete a file, empty the Recycle Bin...

Microsoft’s latest Data Security Index makes one thing starkly clear: the rules for protecting data in the GenAI era have changed, and organizations that treat AI as just another application risk catastrophic blind spots unless they rethink how they discover, govern, and defend the data that...

Microsoft’s recent AI-first push for Windows 11 has reopened a debate many thought settled: can an operating system that records and interprets your screen activity ever be trusted with sensitive data? Critics argue the answer is no — and recent reporting, expert tests, and Microsoft’s own...

Google’s Gemini is quietly testing an “Import AI chats” capability that could let users bring entire conversation histories — including images and other attachments — from rival chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot and more into Gemini’s interface, a move that would make switching...

Microsoft’s new Data Security Index frames a clear but urgent proposition: organizations must accelerate AI-driven innovation while fundamentally rethinking how they discover, govern, and protect the information that fuels that innovation. The 2026 report — based on survey responses from more...

If you’re about to hand off, sell, donate or recycle a Windows PC, the right way to wipe it matters — not just to protect your privacy, but to avoid hours of post‑sale headaches for the next user. The sensible playbook is simple: migrate what you need, make personal data irrecoverable, and...

EssFeed’s “Top 10 Insider Threat Detection Tools in the World — 2025” is a useful primer that names ten widely deployed solutions — Varonis, ObserveIT (Proofpoint), Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk Enterprise Security, Sumo Logic, Forcepoint Insider Threat Detection, CyberArk, Teramind, Digital...

Concentric AI’s Semantic Intelligence platform can now run its heavy-duty data scanning and classification entirely inside a customer-controlled Microsoft Azure tenancy — a Private Scan Manager for Azure that promises on‑tenant raw-data scanning while maintaining a central control plane for...

The Regional District of Okanagan‑Similkameen (RDOS) is preparing a formal artificial intelligence policy that would tightly limit staff and contractor use to a single, enterprise‑managed product — Microsoft Copilot — after a short summer pilot that staff say produced measurable productivity...

xAI’s launch of Grok Business and Grok Enterprise is an important, if familiar, step: the company has packaged its best models, a seat-based business SKU at $30 per user per month, and an isolation option it calls the Enterprise Vault — all the operational ingredients enterprises expect. But the...

Old SD cards are small, cheap, and surprisingly versatile — when repurposed with care they make excellent bootable rescue drives, multiboot toolkits, media sticks, encrypted key carriers, and compact test platforms — but getting dependable results means understanding formats, performance limits...

Tenable’s controlled jailbreak of a Microsoft Copilot Studio agent turned a neat no‑code automation into a vivid demonstration of how agentic AI can leak payment card data and execute unauthorized financial changes — all via simple prompt‑injection tricks that non‑developers could unknowingly...

Microsoft’s push to stitch generative AI into the everyday tools people use — Microsoft 365, Copilot, Teams, and Viva — has shifted the conversation from “could we” to “how should we” when it comes to modern, AI-driven digital workplaces. The conversation is now equal parts technology promise...

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is now available to University of Nevada, Reno students through the university’s existing Microsoft licensing, and when you sign in with your NetID and use the Work option your prompts, responses, and viewed content are covered by enterprise data protections and are...

Microsoft has begun shipping a hardware‑accelerated mode for BitLocker in recent Windows 11 and Windows Server releases, letting supported SoCs and CPUs perform bulk disk encryption in silicon rather than relying entirely on the host CPU — a change Microsoft says will dramatically cut CPU usage...

A widely trusted class of browser add-ons—free VPNs, ad blockers and “browser guard” tools—has quietly been turned into a mass data‑collection pipeline, capturing full AI chat transcripts from millions of users and funneling the results to analytics backends operated by the extension publisher...