data security

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...

Cabonne Council’s draft guidelines for generative AI mark a cautious, pragmatic step: allow staff to use tools such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini for productivity gains — but only with human sign-off, disclosure and strict privacy controls in place. Background Local governments...

PAGCOR’s recent agency-wide Copilot masterclass framed AI not as a silver-bullet productivity hack but as an organisational change problem that must be married to governance, data protection and enforceable admin controls. Background / Overview In a virtual session delivered during Development...

PAGCOR’s agency-wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot on 30 September represented a decisive, education-first pivot: teach staff how to use AI assistants for routine productivity while making governance, data protection and human oversight non‑negotiable features of any rollout. The online...

PAGCOR’s recent, agency-wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot signalled a clear pivot: harness the measurable productivity gains of generative AI while making accountability, data protection and governance the non-negotiable centrepieces of any rollout. Background / Overview The Philippine...

PAGCOR’s recent, agency‑wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot signalled a deliberate move: the regulator is not only experimenting with generative AI for productivity gains but is explicitly trying to frame that experimentation inside governance, data protection and operational controls before...

The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation’s recent agency-wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot is a pragmatic first step in a delicate balancing act: harnessing AI for productivity while protecting highly sensitive regulatory and player data in a tightly regulated industry. The online...

The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation’s recent agency-wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot represents a pragmatic, low-friction approach to bringing generative AI into a high-risk public-sector workplace — one that balances productivity gains with governance controls, but which also...

A sweeping industry analysis released this month warns that Microsoft’s Copilot — the productivity AI now embedded across Microsoft 365 — is touching orders of magnitude more sensitive corporate data than many IT teams realize, with one vendor-backed study reporting nearly three million...

EaseUS’s appointment of Avert IT Distribution as its official distributor in Africa is a strategic move that brings one of the world’s best‑known data‑protection vendors closer to local channels and customers, promising faster procurement, regional support and licensing models adapted to African...

iboss Platform Release 10.4: what the announcement means for Zero Trust SASE and enterprise data protection On September 29, 2025, industry coverage reported that iboss rolled out “Platform Release 10.4,” positioning the update as a material step forward for its Zero Trust SASE platform with a...

Proofpoint’s latest product wave is a direct answer to a single, urgent reality: work is no longer only human-to-human, and security must expand to protect people and the AI agents they now rely on. The company announced four major innovations at Proofpoint Protect 2025 that together aim to...