cybersecurity

Almost nine in ten large organisations that are exposed to actively exploited vulnerabilities leave those weaknesses unpatched for six months or longer, according to fresh industry analysis that should alarm CISOs, boards, and cyber insurers alike. Background The headline figure—almost 9 in 10...

Microsoft has quietly but deliberately set a firm deadline to end a decades‑long compatibility compromise: RC4 (RC4‑HMAC) will no longer be the assumed, permissive fallback for Kerberos ticket encryption on Windows domain controllers, and Microsoft has delivered a staged rollout tied to...

CISA’s decision to add five distinct vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog on January 26, 2026, is a clear operational red flag: the agency has determined there is evidence of active or credible exploitation, and those entries now carry mandatory remediation weight...

A critical weakness in Microsoft Copilot Personal allowed attackers to turn a single, legitimate click into a stealthy exfiltration channel that could siphon profile attributes, file summaries and conversational memory — a chained prompt‑injection attack Varonis Threat Labs labeled “Reprompt”...

Hubtel IT’s recent hiring push — three targeted appointments that expand the team by a quarter — is more than a local personnel story: it’s a concise case study of how smallall, Microsoft‑centric IT consultancies are repositioning around AI-driven services, Copilot integration and heightened...

Hubtel IT’s decision to expand headcount by 25% and set an ambitious turnover target of more than £2.5 million for 2026 marks a deliberate pivot by a regional managed‑services firm to build commercial value around artificial intelligence and cybersecurity while consciously balancing human-led...

Central Bucks School District’s plan to embed AI literacy into classroom instruction lands at a moment of sharp contrast: districts across the country are moving quickly to teach students how to use and evaluate artificial intelligence, even as security researchers expose new ways those same AI...

A new, deceptively simple attack named “Reprompt” has exposed a critical weakness in Microsoft Copilot Personal: with a single click on a legitimate Copilot deep link an attacker could, under the right conditions, mount a multistage, stealthy data‑exfiltration chain that pulls names, locations...

If you use Windows, Microsoft Office, Azure services, SQL Server, or Microsoft developer tools, treat the latest advisories as urgent: India’s national cyber‑security agency CERT‑In has flagged multiple high‑severity Microsoft vulnerabilities and Microsoft has issued January 2026 security...

Microsoft’s formal end-of-support for Windows 10 has turned what was already a long-running upgrade debate into a moment of real urgency — and a flurry of steep Windows 11 Pro discounts and third‑party “lifetime” license offers has followed, pitching sub‑$10 keys as a low‑cost bulletproofing...

When Microsoft set a hard end-of-support date for mainstream Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, many IT teams reacted as if every Windows 10 machine suddenly became a ticking cybersecurity time bomb—but for operational technology (OT) environments the reality has always been more nuanced, and the...

Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to build a cloud‑native, AI‑enabled unified data platform intended to accelerate transmission planning, improve real‑time situational awareness, and help the Midwest grid absorb surging...

The calendar year 2025 did more than accelerate an already fast-moving technology trend — it ruptured assumptions about how artificial intelligence would enter the critical infrastructure of economies, politics, work and security, and forced a new question to the foreground: what does practical...

Yogi Schulz’s Top‑10 reflections on information technology in 2025 crystallize a simple but profound idea: AI moved from a feature to an infrastructure layer that reshaped procurement, power planning, cybersecurity, and day‑to‑day operations across the energy industry. Background / Overview 2025...

ServiceNow’s move to acquire Armis — a deal announced as an all‑cash agreement worth approximately $7.75 billion — marks a decisive bet that workflow automation and real‑time asset visibility must converge to secure the new, AI‑driven enterprise attack surface. Overview ServiceNow announced it...

Microsoft’s own documentation now warns that the new “agentic” AI features in Windows 11 — the capabilities that let built‑in agents act on a user’s behalf — introduce novel security risks, including the possibility that an agent could be manipulated into exfiltrating data or even downloading...

Maharashtra has quietly crossed a threshold in digital policing: an AI-powered investigative platform called MahaCrimeOS has been unveiled by Microsoft and the state government and is being positioned to scale from a Nagpur pilot to cover roughly 1,100 police stations across the state — a move...

CISA’s updated Cross‑Sector Cybersecurity Performance Goals — CPG 2.0 — mark a decisive shift from checklist-style guidance to measurable, governance‑backed outcomes for critical infrastructure owners and operators, placing accountability and enterprise risk management alongside technical...

Cybercriminals are increasingly bypassing technical perimeter defenses not by hacking in, but by being hired in—posing as legitimate remote employees, slipping through HR and onboarding, and then using hardware and identity tricks to gain persistent, trusted access to corporate systems...

Microsoft’s advisory language and public vulnerability metrics are often shorthand for two different concerns: what an attacker can achieve and how the vulnerable code is actually invoked. That distinction lies at the heart of the current public record around CVE-2025-62563 — a Microsoft Excel...