enterprise security

Microsoft Teams has quietly closed a usability gap that’s frustrated corporate chat users for years: you can now forward multiple messages at once. It’s a small change on the surface — select up to five messages and send them together — but it represents a meaningful shift in how Microsoft is...

Microsoft has quietly shifted Copilot from being a conversational helper into an assistant that can act on your behalf: Copilot Tasks is a new agentic capability that accepts natural‑language goals, builds multi‑step plans, and executes them in the background using its own cloud‑based compute...

Microsoft’s Copilot has taken the next step from conversation to completion: today’s announcement of Copilot Tasks marks a deliberate pivot from chat-first AI to agentic, action-oriented automation that runs scheduled, recurring, and one-off workflows on your behalf — browsing, coordinating...

Microsoft has quietly added a default‑on setting to Copilot that explicitly permits the assistant to “use data from Bing, MSN, Edge, and other Microsoft products you’ve used,” and you should seriously consider turning it off right now if you care about privacy, discoverability, or simply keeping...

Microsoft's latest move turns Copilot from a conversational helper into an autonomous worker: Copilot Tasks promises to accept natural‑language instructions, spin up its own browser and compute environment, and perform multi‑step work in the background — scheduling, interacting with web pages...

IBM’s X‑Force now says infostealers exposed roughly 300,000 ChatGPT credentials last year — a number that changes how enterprises must think about identity, secrets, and the very idea of what constitutes a “sensitive” SaaS account. Background AI chatbots moved from novelty to daily work tool in...

Firefox’s latest desktop update leans into a rare — and deliberate — user-first stance on artificial intelligence while polishing the browser’s accessibility, backup, and drag‑and‑drop workflows, plus closing out legacy Windows support with a final security nod to older systems. Background /...

The past week’s headlines around generative AI read like a high-stakes triage: national security and corporate ethics colliding at the Pentagon’s highest levels, a practical new class of malware tradecraft that weaponizes trusted AI assistants, and a sobering market forecast from Gartner that...

Microsoft’s cloud assistant has been patched — and the fix has prompted a wider rethink about how Data Loss Prevention (DLP) must work in an era of always‑on AI assistants. Over the past month Microsoft has closed a logic error that allowed Microsoft 365 Copilot to index and summarize...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot Studio updates move "computer‑using agents" from intriguing demos toward practical, auditable automation for broad enterprise use—delivering model choice, built‑in credential management, step‑level observability, and a managed Cloud PC runtime that together aim to fix...

Microsoft’s new Security Dashboard for AI arrives as a pragmatic — and urgently needed — response to a problem CISOs have been warning about for months: enterprise AI is proliferating faster than governance, and visibility is the first line of defense when human oversight can’t scale. Announced...

Microsoft’s Copilot for Microsoft 365 quietly read and summarized email messages that organizations had explicitly marked “Confidential,” a logic error that bypassed Purview sensitivity labels and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) protections and has reignited serious questions about AI governance...

Microsoft is rolling out AI‑powered summary pages to Copilot Notebooks this March, bringing an automatically generated “overview” of a notebook’s references and insights to the front door of the Notebooks experience and turning long, scattered research into quick, consumable synopses for...

Microsoft has quietly closed one of the more frustrating security gaps in Windows authentication: starting with the February 10, 2026 cumulative update (OS builds 26200.7840 and 26100.7840), external Windows Hello devices — notably peripheral fingerprint readers and compatible cameras — can now...

Microsoft’s flagship productivity assistant, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, briefly read and summarized emails that organizations had explicitly labeled “Confidential,” exposing a gap between automated AI convenience and long‑standing enterprise access controls...

Microsoft confirmed a logic bug in Microsoft 365 Copilot that, for a window of weeks, allowed Copilot Chat’s “Work” experience to index and summarize emails that organizations had explicitly labeled as Confidential, effectively bypassing configured Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and...

Microsoft acknowledged that a code defect in Microsoft 365 Copilot allowed the assistant to read and summarize emails marked “Confidential,” exposing a gap between AI convenience and long‑standing enterprise data controls. The issue, tracked by Microsoft as service advisory CW1226324, affected...

For weeks this winter, Microsoft’s flagship productivity assistant, Microsoft 365 Copilot, quietly did exactly what it was built to do — read, index and summarise corporate communications — and in the process it mistakenly summarised emails that organisations had explicitly marked Confidential...

Microsoft’s flagship productivity assistant, Microsoft 365 Copilot, briefly read and summarized emails that organizations had explicitly marked “Confidential,” revealing a logic error that bypassed Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and sensitivity‑label protections and forcing IT teams to confront a...

Microsoft has confirmed that a logic bug in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat allowed the assistant to read and summarize emails labeled “Confidential” from users’ Sent Items and Drafts folders for several weeks, bypassing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) protections that organizations set up to stop...