cloud security

Microsoft’s framing of a single, unified security platform as the antidote to AI’s expanding attack surface is no longer rhetoric — it’s rapidly becoming product strategy, roadmap, and go‑to‑market reality for enterprise defenders. At a recent Microsoft AI‑focused event, senior product leaders...

Microsoft’s engineering team solved a deceptively hard problem: how to preserve absolute anonymity for sensitive employee groups while moving entirely to a cloud-first operating model—and to do it quickly, at enterprise scale, without adding new administrative burden. The result is a...

A crafty alteration to a VM disk header can make a guest VM read sensitive host files — that is the practical risk discovered in CVE-2026-27211, a high‑severity information‑disclosure flaw in Cloud Hypervisor that reintroduces a long‑standing class of image‑format parsing problems into modern...

OneDrive in 2026 is no longer just a cloud folder — it’s a full-featured file platform that blends traditional syncing, robust security, and AI-driven productivity into a single experience that lives in File Explorer, the web, and your pocket. This guide walks through practical setup tips for...

If you want to walk into a cloud engineer interview and leave the room with confidence, you must be able to do three things at once: explain core concepts crisply, demonstrate practical troubleshooting and migration experience, and show you understand security and trade‑offs at an architectural...

CrowdStrike and Microsoft have deepened a strategic tie that will let Azure customers buy the CrowdStrike Falcon platform directly through Microsoft Marketplace and apply those purchases against their existing Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment, a move the vendors say will remove procurement...

Researchers from ETH Zurich and the Università della Svizzera italiana have published a sobering analysis showing that modern cloud-based password managers — the very tools many of us rely on to keep dozens or hundreds of unique credentials secure — are vulnerable to a family of practical...

A stack-based buffer overflow in QEMU’s virtio‑net implementation (CVE‑2023‑6693) has prompted a routine but important question from Azure customers: when Microsoft’s MSRC public advisory says “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected,” does that mean...

The Linux kernel fix tracked as CVE-2025-38158 addresses a subtle but consequential DMA address assembly bug in the Hisilicon VFIO accelerator driver (hisi_acc_vfio_pci) that can leave guest kernel‑mode encryption services broken after live migration — and Microsoft’s short MSRC attestation that...

The University of Georgia has launched a campus AI pilot program for students, marking the latest chapter in a nationwide push by colleges to move beyond blanket bans and toward guided, institution‑level adoption of generative AI tools — a shift that promises productivity and new learning...

Microsoft’s advisory that Azure Linux includes the vulnerable util‑linux library is accurate — but it is not the whole story: the wall (broadcast) bug tracked as CVE‑2024‑28085 is a library / utility flaw that is present in the standard util‑linux packages used across virtually every mainstream...

Amazon Web Services has quietly flipped the switch on nested virtualization for a subset of its newest Intel-powered EC2 families, putting the long-awaited ability to run a hypervisor inside an EC2 virtual machine into general configuration for 8th‑generation Intel instance types — specifically...

Strategy’s Cloud Security Whitepaper stakes a clear claim: run the Intelligence Platform in your own cloud, at hyperscaler scale, with enterprise-grade controls so security teams and CISOs can confidently deliver analytics and AI without handing over custody of their data. Background Strategy...

A wave of tech‑support fraud that weaponized paid Bing search ads and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage burst into view in early February, converting routine web searches into convincing “Azure Support” scare pages and phone scams that hit at least 48 U.S. organizations across healthcare...

Microsoft’s advisory listing for CVE-2026-21228 has elevated the alarm for Azure administrators and cloud defenders alike: the vendor has recorded a local remote-code-execution (RCE) class vulnerability affecting Azure management components, but key technical details remain limited in the public...

Microsoft has assigned CVE-2026-21522 to a newly disclosed elevation-of-privilege flaw affecting Azure Container Instances (ACI) Confidential Containers, warning that an attacker with access inside a confidential guest could potentially escalate privileges and interact with host-level resources...

A routine service notification from Microsoft Azure was flagged as spam by Microsoft 365 Security — a small event on the surface that exposes a recurring, high-stakes problem: automated email filters, tuned to fight increasingly sophisticated phishing and spam, can and do misclassify legitimate...

Linux 6.19 has landed, and with Linus Torvalds’ customary blend of dry humour and blunt practicality he’s already declared the next kernel cycle will be called Linux 7.0 — a naming change driven by bookkeeping fatigue rather than any single, sweeping technical break. The 6.19 release itself is a...

Wall Street turned sharply active in early February 2026, with analysts rotating through five very different stories — Enphase Energy, Cloudflare, Merck & Co., Microsoft, and fuboTV — issuing upgrades, downgrades and much‑debated price targets that together illuminate how investors are...

Microsoft has assigned CVE‑2026‑21532 to an information‑disclosure vulnerability that affects Azure Functions; the entry in Microsoft’s Security Update Guide confirms the vulnerability exists but — at the time of publication — supplies only a high‑level classification and a vendor confidence...