data security

Microsoft’s Copilot Mode is now being positioned as an enterprise-ready, agentic layer for Edge for Business — a change that converts the browser from a passive rendering surface into a permissioned, action-taking assistant capable of reasoning across tabs, accessing enterprise data stores, and...

DBAN still works as a blunt, effective tool for wiping whole hard disks, but it’s important to understand what it does, what it cannot do, and the safer, modern alternatives for SSDs and compliance-sensitive scenarios. Background / Overview DBAN (Darik’s Boot And Nuke) has been a go‑to utility...

Excel can be brilliant — and brutally tedious — and the new generation of AI-for-Excel tools promises to turn hours of spreadsheet drudgery into minutes of insight and automation, but that promise comes with trade-offs: licensing, security, and the need for human validation. Background Excel...

Anita Kotwani’s departure from Dentsu, Marico’s Q2 advertising splurge, the ED’s multi-site action in the Lodha probe, and the formal terms set for India’s Data Protection Board together map a compact but revealing snapshot of Indian corporate governance, advertising economics, regulatory...

Royal Enfield’s Flying Flea EV debut, India’s newly finalised Data Protection Board rules, and Apple’s tightened App Store review language on AI data-sharing together signal a shifting landscape where product launches, regulatory control, and platform governance are colliding — and where...

India’s new Data Protection Board will be a compact, four-member adjudicatory body headquartered in New Delhi, and Brussels has launched a formal antitrust probe into Red Bull over suspected tactics to restrict the sale and visibility of rival energy drinks — two parallel enforcement moves that...

Microsoft Teams is now the hub for large swathes of everyday work — chat, meetings, file collaboration, and increasingly AI — but that convenience brings serious governance and compliance risk if left unmanaged. The nine “easy wins” that UC Today outlines are a practical baseline: align Teams...

BitLocker’s recovery screen is not a bug — it’s a last‑resort safety gate — but when it appears unexpectedly it can feel like a locked vault with no key; this in‑depth guide explains legitimate recovery options, what bypassing signals in practice, how to use supported tools (and when to avoid...

The legal function’s path from curiosity to disciplined experimentation with generative AI no longer depends on hope or hype — it depends on a repeatable operating model. Law360’s “5 Steps for GCs to Drive Generative AI Experimentation” lays out a pragmatic sequence for general counsel and legal...

AI is no longer an optional layer on top of enterprise systems — it is actively remaking the architecture, behavior, and business case for modern ERP, turning what used to be a passive transaction ledger into a continuous, predictive decision engine that can automate work, reduce cost, and...

The convergence of Microsoft SQL Server, Dell™ PowerEdge™ hardware, and Windows Server 2022 promises a practical, ship‑ready path to tighter end‑to‑end data protection — but the benefits come with important caveats. A recent industry write‑up and vendor‑commissioned testing argue that pairing...

Discord’s recent data-safety catastrophe — in which government IDs and age-verification images supplied by users were exposed after attackers compromised a third‑party support system — has ripped the thin veil off a problem every platform adopting the UK’s Online Safety Act must now confront...

The single sentence that should make every IT manager sit up: a misconfigured marketing mail-log database tied to Netcore Cloud Pvt. Ltd. sat publicly accessible and entirely unencrypted, exposing roughly 40 billion records (about 13.4 TB) of message metadata, transactional notices, and other...

Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists a “spoofing” class advisory tied to data‑sharing and assistant integrations, but the exact CVE identifier CVE‑2025‑59200 is not present in the set of vendor and community records available for review; the public record for Copilot‑ and...

The Austrian data protection authority has found that Microsoft’s widely used Microsoft 365 Education platform illegally tracked students, failed to provide full access to their personal data, and attempted to shift GDPR responsibilities onto schools and education authorities — a ruling that...

Microsoft’s Copilot on Windows has taken a decisive step from chat assistant to document workhorse: the Copilot app can now generate Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and PDFs directly from a chat session, and it can link to personal email and cloud accounts so it can...

Southern Alberta Institute of Technology’s rollout of Microsoft Copilot Chat for SAIT accounts is a pragmatic, policy-aware approach that gives students, faculty, and staff a way to use generative AI with clear guardrails — but it also raises a set of operational and privacy questions that every...

The Cyprus Cabinet was today briefed on a government rollout of Microsoft Copilot for public administration — a staged introduction that will put 350 licensed Copilot seats into the hands of civil servants in the first phase, accompanied by vendor-led training and a parallel €5 million programme...

Cyprus has begun a cautious but concrete push to fold generative AI into the daily work of its public administration, rolling out Microsoft’s Copilot to an initial cohort of civil servants and launching a €5 million “AI in Government” programme to seed local solutions — a move that promises...

Microsoft's Copilot can now be told — in plain English — what to remember and what to forget, and users can inspect and edit that memory directly from the Copilot settings, a change that shifts the conversation about AI assistants from one of raw capability to one of ongoing stewardship and risk...