data protection

Microsoft Copilot can be a genuine productivity multiplier — and also a surprising privacy risk if you accept defaults without looking. PCMag’s hands‑on checklist of “7 settings I changed right away to protect my privacy” is an excellent quick-start for anyone who wants the benefits of an...

Set Up Windows 10/11 Storage Spaces (Mirror) to Protect Data on Two Drives Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 30 minutes Storage Spaces is a built-in Windows 10/11 feature that can combine multiple physical drives into a “pool,” then create a virtual drive (a storage space) on top of it...

At the start of 2026 Austria’s data protection authority (DSB) ordered Microsoft to stop deploying certain tracking cookies on a school‑issued device after finding the cookies were placed without a valid legal basis while a pupil used Microsoft 365 Education — a ruling that threads technical...

Qatar’s public sector quietly accelerated its AI agenda this week with two complementary moves: the Ministry of Education and Higher Education ran an introductory, hands‑on workshop to place Microsoft’s Copilot tools into the daily workflows of ministry directors and department heads, while the...

Organizations across Mexico and the United States are increasingly recognizing that true cyber resilience is not a product you can buy off a shelf but an engineered outcome achieved through an integrated, multi-layer defense-in-depth architecture that combines native cloud protections...

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...