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    Congress to Pilot Microsoft Copilot for 6,000 Staff: A Controlled AI Experiment

    Speaker Mike Johnson’s announcement at the Congressional Hackathon that the U.S. House will begin a staged pilot giving thousands of House staffers access to Microsoft Copilot marks a dramatic reversal of last year’s ban and opens a high‑stakes test of how a legislative body adopts generative AI...
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    Pennsylvania Expands Generative AI for State Employees with Copilot and ChatGPT Enterprise

    Pennsylvania is moving from pilot to purchase order: Governor Josh Shapiro told more than 900 technology, academic and business leaders at the AI Horizons Summit in Pittsburgh that the commonwealth will expand access to advanced generative AI tools for qualified state employees — adding...
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    Understanding CVE-2025-54915: Local Privilege Escalation in Windows Defender Firewall Service

    Microsoft’s Security Response Center has cataloged CVE-2025-54915 as an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Windows Defender Firewall Service described as “Access of resource using incompatible type (‘type confusion’),” and the vendor advises that an authorized local attacker could...
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    CVE-2025-54116: Local Privilege Escalation in Windows MultiPoint Services

    Improper access control in Windows MultiPoint Services (CVE-2025-54116) allows a locally authorized attacker to elevate their privileges on an affected host. Executive summary What it is: CVE-2025-54116 is an elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows MultiPoint Services...
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    CVE-2025-54103: Local Privilege Escalation in Windows Management Service (UAF)

    Microsoft’s Security Response Center (MSRC) has published an advisory for CVE-2025-54103 describing a use‑after‑free flaw in the Windows Management Service that can allow an unauthorized local user to elevate privileges on a vulnerable host. The vendor-classification marks this as an...
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    CVE-2025-47997: SQL Server Race Condition Info-Disclosure — Patch Now

    Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) advisory describes CVE-2025-47997 as a concurrency (race‑condition) information‑disclosure flaw in Microsoft SQL Server that can be triggered by an authorized user and may allow sensitive memory or data to be leaked over the network; administrators...
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    Azure Arc Local Privilege Elevation: Patch for CVE-2025-26627 (CVE-2025-55316 Confusion)

    A high‑risk elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft Azure Arc has been disclosed and patched — but the public tracking and identifier details are messy, and administrators must act now to confirm which of their Arc installations are affected, apply vendor fixes, and harden local...
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    HPC Pack Deserialization Risk: Prepare for Possible RCE (CVE-2025-55232 - unverified)

    Microsoft’s High Performance Compute (HPC) Pack is under scrutiny after a reported deserialization vulnerability that — if the technical description is accurate — would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code over a networked HPC cluster; however, the specific identifier CVE-2025-55232 could...
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    CVE-2025-54904: Excel Use-After-Free Could Allow Local Code Execution

    Microsoft's advisory confirms a use‑after‑free flaw in Microsoft Excel that can lead to local code execution when a specially crafted spreadsheet is opened, creating a potentially serious escalation path on unpatched systems. Overview This vulnerability, tracked as CVE‑2025‑54904, is listed in...
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    Copilot Studio Runtime: Near Real-Time AI Protection for Actions

    Microsoft is putting a second line of defense around AI agents: Copilot Studio now supports advanced near‑real‑time protection during agent runtime, a public‑preview capability that lets organizations route an agent’s planned actions through external monitoring systems — including Microsoft...
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    Azure Phase 2 MFA Enforcement: Prepare for Write-Operation Sign-Ins

    Microsoft has confirmed that Phase 2 of its mandatory multi‑factor authentication (MFA) enforcement for Azure will begin a tenant‑by‑tenant rollout this autumn, extending MFA requirements from portal sign‑ins down into the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) control plane and affecting command‑line...
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    Exposed appsettings.json with Entra ID: Prevent OAuth Token Abuse

    A publicly exposed appsettings.json containing Azure Active Directory (Entra ID) application credentials has opened a direct, programmatic path into affected tenants — a single misconfigured JSON file acting as a master key for cloud estates and enabling attackers to exchange leaked...
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    Preventing Azure AD Credential Leaks: Secure appsettings.json and Secrets

    A publicly exposed appsettings.json file that contained Azure Active Directory application credentials has created a direct, programmatic attack path into affected tenants — a misconfiguration that can let attackers exchange leaked ClientId/ClientSecret pairs for OAuth 2.0 access tokens and then...
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    Edge Extensions Hygiene: Add, Disable, Remove with Privacy, Security, and Admin Tips

    Microsoft’s short, step-by-step support page for Microsoft Edge lays out the basics for adding, disabling, and removing extensions — but the topic matters far beyond a few clicks. Extensions shape privacy, performance, and security for millions of Windows users, and managing them properly is now...
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    Open Windows Server Firewall Ports Safely: GUI and PowerShell Guide

    If you manage servers, opening a port in the Windows Server firewall is one of those routine tasks that’s trivial to execute but easy to get wrong — and a single misconfiguration can expose services to the public internet. This feature explains the exact, supported ways to open ports in Windows...
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    August 2025 Windows Update Breaks MSI Self-Repair: UAC 1730 in Lab Deployments

    Microsoft’s August 2025 cumulative rollups have introduced a surprising compatibility regression: launching some MSI‑based applications — most notably AutoCAD family products, Firefox variants, and certain SAP installers — can now surface a User Account Control (UAC) elevation prompt at first...
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    GitHub Copilot for Azure in Visual Studio 2022: Zero-Setup MCP Agent Mode

    Microsoft has quietly extended Copilot’s reach deeper into the Azure developer workflow by launching a public preview of the GitHub Copilot for Azure extension for Visual Studio 2022, bringing a curated set of Azure tools—exposed via an Azure Model Context Protocol (MCP) server—directly into...
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    Dedicated Exchange Hybrid App in Entra ID: Timeline, Steps, and Security

    Microsoft has begun a strict, time‑boxed push to move Exchange hybrid customers off a Microsoft‑managed shared service principal and onto a dedicated Exchange hybrid app in Entra ID — a change driven by a high‑severity hybrid vulnerability and enforced through short, scheduled EWS traffic blocks...
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    Metadata-Driven Zero-Trust MLOps on Azure with Entra ID, Key Vault & Private Link

    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...
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    CodeMeter CVE-2025-47809 Privilege Escalation: Siemens/ICS Patch Guide

    Siemens' widely deployed use of Wibu-Systems CodeMeter Runtime has again drawn scrutiny after a local privilege-escalation flaw (CVE-2025-47809) was published that can let an unprivileged user gain elevated access immediately after an unprivileged installation when the CodeMeter Control Center...
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