incident response

The Indian government’s cybersecurity arm has issued a high-severity alert advising organisations and individuals to urgently address a batch of patched—but still dangerous—vulnerabilities across multiple Microsoft products, including Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based), Windows Server storage...

CISA and partner agencies have issued a sharply worded joint Cybersecurity Advisory warning that People’s Republic of China (PRC) state‑sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors have been compromising global telecommunications and critical‑infrastructure networks by targeting...

Microsoft quietly ended one of Windows’ most enduring visual warnings this summer: the Blue Screen of Death — the cobalt banner that for decades signaled catastrophic system failure — has been replaced with a streamlined black “unexpected restart” screen as part of Windows 11’s ongoing...

BeyondTrust’s release of the 2023 Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report — framed as the 10th‑anniversary edition — is both a retrospective and a warning: the last decade of Microsoft vulnerability disclosures has delivered recurring patterns that disproportionately affect Windows Server environments...

CISA has added a critical Citrix NetScaler vulnerability — CVE-2025-7775 — to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog after evidence of active exploitation, prompting an urgent patch-and-verify cycle for NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway operators worldwide. Background CVE-2025-7775...

Zero-trust is not an add-on for AI pipelines — it must be baked into the fabric of how data, models and orchestration talk to one another. In a recent InfoWorld piece, the author laid out a metadata-driven, zero-trust MLOps reference architecture on Azure that combines Microsoft Entra ID, Azure...

Microsoft’s Copilot Agent ecosystem is facing a governance and enforcement crisis: multiple independent reports show that tenant-level policies intended to block agent availability are not being reliably enforced, Microsoft’s Copilot audit telemetry has contained reproducible blind spots, and...

Microsoft has acknowledged and begun rolling out a fix for a troubling Exchange Online regression that left some Outlook mobile users unable to send or receive mail — a problem traced to Hybrid Modern Authentication (HMA) and tracked inside the Microsoft 365 Admin Center as incident EX1137017...

Microsoft’s push to weave Copilot into the fabric of Microsoft 365 has hit a trust-defining snag: for months, under specific prompting conditions, the AI assistant’s access to source documents could be absent from Microsoft 365 audit logs, leaving security teams with empty entries where...

Microsoft quietly patched a vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot that allowed the assistant to read and summarize enterprise files without producing the expected Purview audit entry — a gap that, if exploited, could let insiders or attackers extract sensitive data while leaving no trace in...

This week’s Cisco Talos briefing reads like a travelogue-turned-threat-advisory: after a short, evocative opening about cherry pie and Douglas firs, the post pivots sharply to an urgent security alert — a Russian state‑backed cluster Talos calls Static Tundra is actively exploiting a...

Microsoft’s Security Response Center has published an advisory for CVE-2025-55231 describing a race‑condition vulnerability in the Windows storage management stack that, according to the vendor entry, can be abused to achieve remote code execution — a high‑impact outcome that requires immediate...

Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) now lists CVE-2025-53763 as an improper access control vulnerability in Azure Databricks that can be exploited to achieve elevation of privilege over the network, a finding that demands urgent attention from cloud and data platform administrators...

A high-severity memory-corruption flaw in Chromium’s V8 JavaScript engine, tracked as CVE-2025-9132, has been patched in the Chrome 139 stable update; the vulnerability is an out‑of‑bounds write that can lead to heap corruption and, in the worst case, remote code execution when a user visits a...

Microsoft’s security update guide lists a high‑risk elevation‑of‑privilege entry for the Windows MBT Transport driver that, according to the vendor advisory, stems from an untrusted pointer dereference and can be used by an authorized local user to escalate to SYSTEM — a kernel‑level impact that...

Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday delivered the usual mix of security fixes — and an unexpected operational headache: a servicing regression in the August 12, 2025 cumulative updates that broke Windows’ built‑in reset and recovery flows on several supported client branches and, in some upgrade...

FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas’ Synapse Mobility contains a web-parameter privilege-escalation flaw—tracked as CVE-2025-54551—that can be exploited remotely to bypass role-based access controls and expose protected imaging data, and CISA’s emergency medical advisory urges immediate upgrades to...

Microsoft has acknowledged an active investigation after multiple community researchers, test benches and SSD vendors reported that the Windows 11 August cumulative (commonly tracked as KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) can cause certain SSDs to vanish from the operating system during sustained...

Microsoft’s cloud productivity stack stumbled this week when users across North America reported problems accessing Office.com and the Copilot assistant; Microsoft confirmed a critical incident (MO1138499), investigated telemetry and network traces, and mitigated the disruption by reverting a...

TÜV SÜD’s decision to fold Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Security Copilot into its global security operations marks a clear bet on AI-augmented defense: the German testing, inspection, and certification giant reports faster investigations, consistent reporting, and a rapid ramp-up for junior...