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Identity security on WindowsForum.com covers the practical challenges of protecting Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Active Directory, and related identity systems in enterprise IT. Recent discussions highlight unverified claims of tenant data dumps, ransomware exposure increasingly tied to identity infrastructure, and the need for identity controls on AI agents like Copilot Studio. Threads also examine Windows Hello for Business abuse scenarios, incomplete advisories for Entra provisioning and elevation-of-privilege vulnerabilities, and how Copilot inherits existing access decisions. The tag focuses on real-world administration, patching gaps, and audit concerns rather than theoretical risks, helping IT teams assess exposure and respond to identity-related threats.
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    Microsoft Entra Updates: Cloud Sync Migration, Universal CAE and Managed TLS Certificates

    Microsoft has released its latest batch of Microsoft Entra updates. As Neowin reports, it covers everything the company shipped to its identity and network access platform over the past four weeks. The list mixes generally available features with public previews, so treat it as a planning...
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    TrustSink in Microsoft Entra ID: Rogue MFA Providers Can Steal Passwords After Admin Compromise

    A newly named technique called TrustSink shows that MFA is only as trustworthy as whoever is allowed to plug into the sign-in flow. MSSP Alert's brief, which credits Smarter MSP, says the attack abuses Microsoft Entra ID's trust in a "rogue MFA provider" to collect plaintext passwords during...
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    Denmark CPR Register Exposure Affects 8.8 Million After Automated Partner Access Abuse

    Denmark has disclosed one of Europe's larger national-registry exposures, and it wasn't a smash-and-grab on a fortress. It was a stroll through a door that had been left legitimately open. Denmark's Central Population Register (CPR) says the personal information of about 8.8 million registered...
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    Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2026: AI Agents, Identity Attacks and Admin Security Steps

    Microsoft's 2026 Digital Defense Report is out, and its main message is easy to state and harder to act on. Attackers are getting faster with AI, but they still mostly get in through people, identities and trusted access. AI agents are now a new attack surface. The defenders who do best will be...
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    Delinea Report: 99.7% Have AI Policies, Only 51% Enforce Access in Real Time

    Enterprise AI governance has a paperwork problem—but not the one you might expect. According to Delinea’s new research, 99.7% of surveyed IT and security leaders report having formal AI data-access policies, yet only 51% say access is checked against those policies in real time. Writing the...
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    Entra ID Sign-In CSP Enforcement Starts October 2026: Test Browser Extensions Now

    Microsoft is about to tighten which scripts can run on Entra ID sign-in pages, and the countdown is now measured in days. According to a message center reminder that BleepingComputer saw, Microsoft will begin enforcing additional Content Security Policy (CSP) defenses that will only allow...
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    BeyondTrust EPM, Password Safe, PRA Feed Falcon Next-Gen SIEM

    BeyondTrust announced on September 23, 2026 that three products on its Pathfinder Platform can now send identity and privilege data into CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM. The three are Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM), Password Safe and Privileged Remote Access (PRA). For organizations that...
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    Microsoft Entra ID Retires SMS and Voice Delivery in 2027

    Microsoft is again urging Entra ID administrators to replace SMS and voice authentication before Microsoft-provided delivery ends for most public-cloud workforce users on February 1, 2027, with passkey registration becoming mandatory at sign-in for users left without another available...
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    Spain AEPD Receives First Alleged AI Agent Breach Report

    Spain’s data-protection authority has received what it describes as its first notification of a personal-data breach allegedly executed through an AI agent, and the practical warning for administrators is more prosaic than the headlines: an attacker that can discover, authenticate, test, and...
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    Microsoft Entra Backup Targets 30-Day Recovery in December

    Microsoft plans to extend Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery from its current short snapshot history to a rolling 30-day point-in-time recovery window in December 2026, according to Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 567885. The change targets a real gap for Microsoft 365 administrators: Entra’s...
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    Microsoft Defender Identity Timeline Begins September Rollout

    Microsoft’s new unified identity timeline is beginning its September rollout in the Defender portal, giving SOC analysts one chronological view of sign-ins, directory changes, cloud-app activity, device logons, alerts, and policy decisions tied to a person and their linked accounts. The useful...
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    Entra ID Blocks CSS Layout Rules Oct. 26, Breaking Branding

    Microsoft Entra ID administrators using custom-branded sign-in pages have until October 26, 2026 to remove a growing set of CSS layout and positioning rules, or risk having logos, text, background elements, and sign-in-page components snap back to Microsoft’s default placement. The change...
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    CrowdStrike CTO Elia Zaitsev Launches $170M AI Security Fund

    CrowdStrike Global CTO Elia Zaitsev is leaving after 13 years to launch Cognition, a cybersecurity-focused venture firm targeting a $170 million fund, Axios reported on August 20. For Windows administrators and security teams, the personnel move is less important than the investment thesis...
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    France Tax Authority Breach Exposes 678,000 Records

    France is moving to put artificial intelligence into government cybersecurity work after attackers extracted tax and personal data tied to roughly 678,000 individuals and businesses from the country’s tax administration. The immediate lesson for IT teams is less about AI than about identity...
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    McDonald’s Entra Directory Dump Claim Remains Unverified

    A purported McDonald’s employee-directory dump is being offered by a forum seller who claims to have taken more than 1.7 million records from the company’s Microsoft Azure tenant, but the only material evidence publicly described so far is an 8,000-row sample. That distinction is the important...
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    Black Kite Report: Ransomware Disclosures Jump 60% in 6 Months

    Black Kite’s 2026 ransomware report records 7,551 publicly disclosed victims between April 1, 2025, and March 31, 2026—24.9% more than in the prior 12-month period—but the more consequential number is the change in pace: disclosures rose from 2,904 in the first half to 4,647 in the second. That...
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    Copilot Studio Agents Need Identity Controls Before Production

    AI agents have moved from a marketing label to a deployable capability inside Microsoft 365, Copilot Studio, Dynamics 365 and enterprise service platforms—but the practical change for IT is narrower and more consequential than many 2026 market guides suggest. An agent is software that can...
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    Windows Hello for Business Lets Malware Request Entra PRTs

    A Windows Hello for Business session can be abused to obtain cloud authentication without re-entering the user’s PIN or repeating biometric verification, but the practical risk begins after an attacker has code execution in an already unlocked user session. The technique does not extract a...
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    CVE-2026-59115 Entra Provisioning Flaw Has No Fix Details

    Microsoft has published CVE-2026-59115, an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Microsoft Entra Provisioning Service, but the advisory’s public record leaves administrators without the usual decision-making details: no attack method, CVSS score, affected build list, KB article...
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    CVE-2026-50481 Update: Critical 9.9 Entra ID Privilege Escalation, Fixed Service-Side

    Microsoft's CVE-2026-50481 is a Critical, CVSS 9.9 elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in Microsoft Entra ID, published under the service's legacy "Azure Active Directory" name. It is a defect in a Microsoft-operated cloud service rather than in software customers install, and Microsoft's own...