identity services

Alaska Airlines customers were locked out of their accounts on Tuesday morning after the carrier’s website and mobile app returned a rate-limit error when users tried to sign in, leaving many unable to book, change or view travel plans and forcing travelers to rely on airport counters for...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a high‑visibility, multi‑hour outage on October 29, 2025 after an inadvertent configuration change to Azure Front Door (AFD)—the company’s global edge and application‑delivery fabric—knocked Microsoft‑hosted and customer‑fronted services offline, forcing...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone faltered on October 29, 2025, when an Azure outage traced to a suspected inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD) disrupted Microsoft 365, the Azure management portal, Xbox and Minecraft authentication, and a raft of third‑party sites — including...

SafeBreach Labs’ disclosure of four newly discovered Windows denial-of-service (DoS) flaws — and the novel “Win‑DDoS” technique they describe for turning exposed domain controllers into DDoS amplifiers — forces a hard look at how organizations harden their identity plane, patch critical servers...

Here’s a summary of the breaking news reported by Semperis about a critical design flaw, called Golden dMSA, affecting Windows Server 2025: What is Golden dMSA? Golden dMSA is a critical design flaw found in Delegated Managed Service Accounts (dMSA) within Windows Server 2025. The flaw exposes...

The direct content from your provided link is inaccessible due to a captcha barrier, but I did a deep search in relevant documents and industry updates regarding MFA integration for Microsoft Azure tenants, including recent authentication and federation announcements from Optimal IdM and...

On July 9, 2025, at approximately 10:20 PM UTC, Microsoft Outlook experienced a significant global outage, leaving millions of users unable to access their email accounts across web, desktop, and mobile platforms. Scope and Impact of the Outage The disruption affected users worldwide, with...

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) has been a cornerstone for organizations seeking to provide single sign-on (SSO) and secure access to a range of web applications—both on-premises and in the cloud. With the explosion of SaaS adoption, the importance of strong authentication...

Cloud-reliant enterprises and everyday users awoke to yet another reminder of the intricacies and fragility underlying even the world’s most trusted digital platforms. Microsoft 365, the software suite at the core of productivity for millions, recently suffered from widespread authentication...

A wave of concern has swept across the IT security landscape following Cisco’s disclosure of critical vulnerabilities in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Customer Collaboration Platform (CCP) tools. Most worryingly, one freshly unearthed flaw in ISE cloud deployments—tracked as...

When we talked about Link Removed back in November, we announced new capabilities that will enable Windows 10 to leverage Azure Active Directory. Since these capabilities are now starting to appear in the Windows 10 preview builds, this is a great time to explore them in more detail. When...

The Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS provides an easy and convenient way to leverage services within the Windows Azure Platform from an iPhone or iPad. In this video, Link Removed—Principal Program Manager at Microsoft—explains how to use the latest release to leverage the Access Control Service...