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Microsoft’s public advisory that “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected” is a product‑level inventory attestation — it confirms Azure Linux images were found to contain the vulnerable Linux kernel component behind CVE‑2025‑37915, but it is not a...

Microsoft quietly acknowledged a painful truth this week: when your software runs the world, sometimes it needs a babysitter — and Microsoft has just shuffled the people charged with doing the babysitting. Background Satya Nadella announced in an internal memo posted to the company blog that...

Microsoft’s public concession that Windows 11 has slid past “annoying” into a systemic quality problem is the most consequential signal yet: engineers are being redirected into tactical “swarming” teams to triage a wave of regressions that culminated in emergency out‑of‑band patches and, for a...

Microsoft’s security partner ecosystem just got a new set of headline recognitions: the winners of the 2026 Microsoft Security Excellence Awards were announced following an event in Redmond on January 26, 2026, spotlighting partners that have pushed the boundaries of AI‑enabled defense, Zero...

Microsoft’s security trackers show a new entry for CVE-2026-21520 — an information‑disclosure vulnerability affecting Cotheilot Studio — but public technical details are intentionally sparse and the vendor record currently provides more affirmation of existence than a full exploit recipe...

For decades, Microsoft has presented privacy and security not as competing priorities but as mutually reinforcing obligations—and the company’s recent Deputy CISO commentary lays out how that philosophy is engineered into products, programs, and governance at global scale. Background Microsoft’s...

Picture this: your Security Operations Center lights up at 03:00 because an AI-driven campaign has sent 10,000 bespoke phishing messages aimed at your executives, each message tuned from public LinkedIn content and corporate signals. The immediate threat isn't a novel zero‑day — it’s volume...

Microsoft’s short public advisory that “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected” is correct as a product‑level statement — but it is not a categorical guarantee that no other Microsoft product can include the same vulnerable Linux kernel code...

Short answer (direct) No — Azure Linux is not necessarily the only Microsoft product that could include the vulnerable upstream code. It is the only Microsoft product Microsoft has publicly attested (via its advisory/VEX/CSAF process) to include the implicated open‑source kernel component for...

Imagine a perfectly plausible Microsoft email — logo, tone, and even an apparent microsoft.com link — that quietly hands your credentials to a criminal because your brain read a visual illusion instead of the actual characters in the address. This is the new face of a classic trick...

Quorum Cyber’s latest round of senior appointments signals a decisive push from a Microsoft‑centric security specialist into an accelerated phase of international scaling, with four seasoned executives — John Bruce (CISO), Mike LaPeters (CRO), Stacey Sweeney (CMO) and Melissa Webb (VP, Microsoft...

Microsoft’s Security Store is now live in public preview and positioned as a single-pane gateway for security teams to discover, procure, and deploy verified security solutions and AI-powered Security Copilot agents that plug directly into Microsoft’s security stack. The move folds discovery...

U.S. enterprises are accelerating adoption of Cloud Backup Services from IBN Technologies as part of broader efforts to harden business continuity, streamline disaster recovery, and reduce the operational risk posed by ransomware, system failures, and regulatory complexity. The vendor’s...

Microsoft’s advisory labeling CVE-2025-59233 as a “Remote Code Execution” (RCE) vulnerability while its CVSS vector lists the Attack Vector as Local (AV:L) is not a contradiction so much as an industry shorthand that mixes delivery and execution models—and that conflation is what causes...

Microsoft released emergency updates on August 12, 2025 to fix a high-severity flaw in Windows Remote Desktop Services that allows unauthenticated, network-based denial-of-service attacks against a wide range of Windows servers and desktops, tracked as CVE-2025-53722. Background Remote Desktop...

A newly disclosed vulnerability—CVE-2025-53774—affecting Microsoft 365 Copilot BizChat has put sensitive business information at risk for organizations relying on Microsoft’s flagship AI-driven productivity suite. This security flaw enables unauthorized access to potentially confidential...

Windows Hello, long touted as the seamless and secure future of biometric login for Windows users, now finds itself under intense scrutiny following a dramatic live demonstration at this year’s Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. Two German researchers unveiled a critical vulnerability...

A high-severity security vulnerability has emerged at the heart of countless enterprise communications: Microsoft has issued a warning about a flaw in hybrid Exchange Server deployments that could give cyber attackers undetected escalated access to Exchange Online—potentially undermining the...

Microsoft has unveiled Project Ire, an autonomous AI agent designed to revolutionize malware detection by independently analyzing and classifying software without human intervention. This development marks a significant advancement in cybersecurity, aiming to enhance the efficiency and accuracy...

Microsoft has unveiled a new chapter in its security journey: the launch of the Secure Future Initiative (SFI) patterns and practices—a practical, actionable library aimed at enabling organizations to implement robust security measures at scale. This resource distills Microsoft’s own...