Veza’s new AI Agent Security product arrives at a moment when enterprises are rapidly delegating more authority to autonomous software — and with that delegation comes a new set of identity, access, and governance challenges that traditional IAM wasn’t built to handle.
Background
Veza, an...
Veza’s new AI Agent Security productcodifies a practical — and urgently needed — approach to securing agentic AI by treating AI agents as first-class identities, offering unified discovery, access governance, and least-privilege controls across major cloud and model platforms. Background
Agentic...
Microsoft’s newest hardening for Windows 11 — Administrator protection — has quietly moved from the depths of Insider builds into a visible toggle in Windows Security, and it represents a notable re‑think of how administrative privileges are granted and used on consumer and managed PCs. The...
If you believe the single biggest security problem for Windows is the next malware strain or a clever phishing campaign, think again — the far more dangerous factor is the set of widely repeated security myths that lull users into bad habits and create predictable attack surfaces attackers love...
When an industry veteran says “identity is the new perimeter,” they mean more than a slogan — they mean a strategic pivot that should already be reshaping every security program, architecture review, and boardroom risk discussion. In a recent interview reported by IT Brief New Zealand, James...
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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Microsoft’s Windows 11 25H2 arrives as a compact, operationally focused update: an enablement package that flips on capabilities already seeded into the platform, adds a handful of practical conveniences (notably a native sudo command, archive handling in File Explorer, and groundwork for Wi‑Fi...
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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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Microsoft has opened public preview for Azure Service Groups, a tenant-level abstraction that lets organizations create flexible, cross‑subscription groupings of resources for visibility, observability, and lightweight management without changing RBAC or policy inheritance across the resource...
Siemens has published a security advisory (SSA-027652) describing a privilege‑escalation vulnerability in its SINAMICS drive family that allows a factory reset and configuration manipulation without the required privileges, and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)...
Microsoft’s advisory URL for CVE-2025-55227 does not resolve to a public advisory, and the identifier CVE-2025-55227 cannot be located in Microsoft’s Security Update Guide or the major vulnerability databases; the evidence available instead points to a closely related Microsoft SQL Server...
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...
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...
Microsoft’s security advisory for CVE-2025-54094 identifies a type‑confusion flaw in the Windows Defender Firewall Service that can be triggered by an authorized local actor to perform a local Elevation of Privilege (EoP) — in short, an attacker with the ability to run code as a non‑privileged...
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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...
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...
Microsoft has published an advisory identifying CVE-2025-55317, a local elevation-of-privilege flaw in Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) caused by improper link resolution before file access — commonly described as a link-following or symlink/junction weakness — that can allow an authorized local...
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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...
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...
CVE-2025-54913 — Windows UI XAML Maps (MapControlSettings)
Race-condition elevation-of-privilege: what admins, developers, and defenders need to know
Summary
What it is: CVE-2025-54913 is an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Windows UI XAML Maps component (MapControlSettings). The...