cybersecurity risks

  1. Microsoft Outlook Outage Highlights Cloud Dependency Risks and Crisis Management

    The abrupt service disruption experienced by Microsoft Outlook has cast a sharp spotlight on the fragility and critical importance of digital communication infrastructure. Known globally as a staple for personal and enterprise email management, Outlook—integral to the Microsoft 365...
  2. Microsoft Outlook Outage: Causes, Impact, and Lessons in SaaS Reliability

    For millions accustomed to beginning their day by checking email, the morning brought an unwelcome disruption. Outlook, Microsoft's globally dominant email service, suffered a major outage that left users locked out of their mailboxes, unable to send or receive messages, and questioning the...
  3. UK and US Hit by Major Microsoft Outlook Outage: Causes, Impact, and Lessons

    Millions of users across the United Kingdom were startled awake to find themselves locked out of their email inboxes as Microsoft Outlook suffered a significant service outage, leaving many unable to access critical communications and disrupting both professional and personal routines. As the...
  4. Microsoft Outlook Outage 2025: Global Disruption, Response & Lessons Learned

    In recent hours, a significant and unexpected service disruption has gripped Microsoft Outlook, leaving millions unable to access their emails, contacts, and calendar information—essentials that business professionals, students, and casual users alike depend on daily. The outage, swiftly...
  5. Understanding and Mitigating CVE-2025-49722: Windows Print Spooler Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

    The Windows Print Spooler has long been a critical and, at times, problematic subsystem of the Windows operating system. Responsible for managing print jobs sent from computers to printers, it operates at a privileged level—meaning its vulnerabilities routinely attract widespread attention from...
  6. CVE-2025-48800: The New Physical Bypass Threat to BitLocker Encryption

    A recent Microsoft security advisory has raised serious concerns over CVE-2025-48800—a new BitLocker security feature bypass vulnerability that spotlights potential risks in Windows’ physical security landscape. BitLocker, a cornerstone of Microsoft’s drive for data protection since its...
  7. CVE-2025-49716: Critical Windows Netlogon Vulnerability & How to Protect Your Infrastructure

    Windows Netlogon has long served as a critical backbone for authentication and secure communications within Active Directory environments. However, recent disclosure of CVE-2025-49716 has cast a spotlight on significant and exploitable weaknesses in how Netlogon processes certain types of...
  8. CISA Expands KEV Catalog with 4 Critical Vulnerabilities—What Organizations Must Know

    In a world increasingly defined by digital interdependence, every alert from a leading cybersecurity authority merits close scrutiny. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has reaffirmed this reality by recently expanding its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog (KEV)...
  9. July 2025 Patch Tuesday: Preparing for Stability Amid Ongoing Security Challenges

    July’s arrival signals the halfway mark of the year, and with it, another anticipated round of Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates. After a frenetic June—marked by urgent hotfixes, post-release patches, and a barrage of security advisories—the enterprise IT world finds itself yearning for a pause...
  10. Microsoft 365 DNS Misconfiguration Disrupts OTP Email Delivery: Lessons & Prevention

    For many organizations relying on Microsoft 365, even brief interruptions to core service components can have a ripple effect on productivity, security, and trust. Recently, Microsoft was forced to confront yet another challenge related to the Domain Name System (DNS)—a core pillar of internet...
  11. The Hidden Risks of Cloud Email Security: Why Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace Fail Silently

    The widespread assumption that emails sent via Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace are always fully encrypted and secure is deeply flawed, and recent research paints a troubling picture of silent failures, unclear policies, and significant risk to sensitive data in trusted enterprise...
  12. June 2025 Windows Update Timestamp Bug Causes Deployment Delays for Enterprises

    Microsoft’s latest advisory illuminates one of the more nuanced—but potentially impactful—complications that can arise from the interplay of enterprise management policies and the technical underpinnings of Windows Update: the wrong timestamp on the June 2025 Windows security updates has...
  13. Windows 10 End of Support 2025: Essential Strategies for Business Security and Migration

    With the official end of support for Windows 10 set for October 14, 2025, businesses across the globe face a pivotal moment that will have a far-reaching impact on IT security, productivity, and their overall technology strategy. Microsoft’s decision is not without precedent—the software giant...
  14. The Risks and Realities of Generative AI: Bias, Hallucination, and Environmental Impact

    Amid the surging hype surrounding artificial intelligence, the gap between the corporate vision for AI and its current realities has never been more fraught with risk and contradiction. Tech giants are selling a utopian narrative—one where artificial general intelligence (AGI) will usher in an...
  15. Windows 11 Migration Deadline 2025: How Enterprises Can Prepare and Accelerate Transition

    As enterprises worldwide approach the looming October 2025 deadline for Windows 10 end of support, a fresh landscape of both progress and peril has emerged, according to newly released data from ControlUp’s Windows 11 Readiness report. The study, which analyzed over one million enterprise...
  16. Hyperscale Cloud Dominance: The Future of Global Data Centers and AI-Driven Growth

    The swift transformation of the global data center ecosystem is challenging traditional notions of IT infrastructure, spurred largely by the relentless expansion of hyperscale cloud providers. In the past decade, the world has witnessed a marked migration away from on-premises servers towards...
  17. Windows 11 Migration: Urgent Strategies for Enterprise Endpoints Before Support Ends

    As Microsoft’s end-of-support deadline for Windows 10 looms on October 14, a new study by ControlUp reveals a landscape of significant, if uneven, progress among enterprises migrating to Windows 11—a transition shaping IT strategy for organizations across the globe. With only four months...
  18. Windows 10 End-of-Support 2025: What You Need to Know and How to Prepare

    As Windows 10 approaches its official end-of-support, the stakes for businesses, institutions, and everyday users could not be higher. Microsoft’s decision to end mainstream support for one of its most popular operating systems on October 14, 2025, has triggered a wave of concern, planning, and...
  19. Windows 10 Support Ends October 2025: How to Upgrade Safely and Securely

    As Microsoft draws the curtain on Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025, more than a billion PC users face a pivotal moment: whether to upgrade, pay for temporary security, or risk running unsupported software in a world teeming with sophisticated cyber threats. Windows 10’s retirement isn’t a...
  20. Uncovering Hidden Risks in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace Email Encryption

    Anyone who has ever trusted Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace with their most sensitive information—especially in regulated fields like healthcare—may want to pause and reconsider that trust after reading Paubox’s new report. Titled “How Microsoft and Google Put PHI at Risk,” the investigative...