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  1. Protecting Your Organization from Phishing Attacks on Microsoft Copilot

    The growing adoption of generative AI in the workplace has ushered in sweeping changes across industries, delivering newfound efficiencies and innovative capabilities. Yet, with each leap toward automation and intelligence, a parallel, shadowy world of cyber threats surges ahead. A recent...
  2. Microsoft Teams' New 'Prevent Screen Capture' Feature Enhances Meeting Security in 2025

    Microsoft Teams, the dominant workplace collaboration platform, is poised to introduce a pivotal update aimed at safeguarding sensitive information: the “Prevent Screen Capture” feature. Beginning a worldwide rollout in July 2025, this upgrade is designed to automatically block screen capture...
  3. AI-Powered Phishing: How Cybercriminals Are Changing the Game and How Windows Users Can Protect Themselves

    Phishing attacks have entered a dangerous new phase—one defined by AI-powered precision, relentless innovation, and the exploitation of trust at every level of the digital experience. Gone are the days when phishing meant laughably obvious misspellings and dubious Nigerian princes; today...
  4. Microsoft OneDrive’s New Default Sync Feature: Security Risks & Management Strategies

    Microsoft’s OneDrive has long been a keystone in modern file synchronization, bridging desktops, laptops, and mobile devices for millions of users worldwide. Its adoption in both personal and professional realms has grown as digital collaboration transforms how—and where—work gets done. Yet, as...
  5. AI and PCI DSS 4.0.1: How WitnessAI 2.0 Ensures Payment Security & Compliance

    The enterprise landscape is rapidly transforming as artificial intelligence becomes a central fixture across a spectrum of business operations, but with escalating innovation comes profound new challenges—none more pressing than regulatory compliance and risk management. Nowhere is this more...
  6. Windows RDP Password Caching Vulnerability: What You Need to Know

    For years, Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) has served as a lifeline for remote IT administration, telework, and seamless cross-location access—widely relied upon by system administrators, enterprises, and everyday power users. But recent revelations indicate that RDP may harbor a...
  7. Is Using a VPN Still Essential in 2025? Key Benefits & How to Choose

    In the digital landscape of 2025, the question of whether to use a Virtual Private Network (VPN) remains pertinent. As our online activities expand, so do the risks associated with privacy breaches, data theft, and surveillance. A VPN serves as a tool to enhance online security by encrypting...
  8. Understanding Windows RDP Credential Caching: Risks, Implications, and Security Strategies

    The expectation that changing your Microsoft or Azure account password will immediately invalidate previous credentials, cutting off all unauthorized access, is deeply ingrained in modern digital hygiene. However, an in-depth look into Windows’ Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) reveals a peculiarity...
  9. CVE-2025-21416 in Azure Virtual Desktop: Critical Privilege Escalation Vulnerability and Security Best Practices

    A critical security vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-21416 has been disclosed in Azure Virtual Desktop, Microsoft’s cloud-based remote desktop solution, drawing the attention of enterprises and security professionals worldwide. This vulnerability centers on an elevation of privilege risk...
  10. Why Identity Is the New Security Perimeter in 2024: Strategies to Protect Modern Enterprises

    Identity-based cyberattacks have rapidly emerged as one of the most pressing security challenges facing organizations in 2024 and beyond. As digital transformation accelerates, shifting workforces to remote and hybrid models and driving deeper cloud adoption, the boundaries that once defined...
  11. Microsoft Deprecates VBS Enclaves in Windows 11 Old Versions: What You Need to Know

    If you ever thought that Windows version numbers were just minor footnotes in a sea of endless updates, think again. Microsoft’s recent security reshuffle regarding Windows 11 and its virtualization-based security features is here not just to break that illusion—it’s ready to smack it with a...
  12. Microsoft Retires Remote Desktop App: Transition to New Windows App by May 2025

    Microsoft is once again reshaping how we access remote desktop environments on Windows. In a move designed to simplify and enhance remote connectivity, Microsoft has announced that the Windows Remote Desktop app available from the Microsoft Store will be retired on May 27, 2025. Users are now...
  13. End of an Era: What Windows Users Need to Know About Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Transition

    Microsoft’s Remote Desktop app for Windows, a staple for countless IT professionals and power users, is headed for retirement in May 2025. This shift is much more than a mere feature swap—it’s a strategic move entwined with Microsoft’s escalating ambitions in cloud computing, virtualization, and...
  14. How Hackers Are Using Messaging Apps to Steal Microsoft 365 Credentials

    Microsoft 365 account holders, it’s time to clutch your credentials like your last stick of office coffee—hackers have orchestrated another clever plot, this time through everyone’s favorite messaging apps. If you thought WhatsApp and Signal were just for family chats and cryptic office banter...
  15. Russian Hackers Weaponize OAuth 2.0 to Target Microsoft 365 & High-Value Users in 2025

    Russian hackers have figured out a way to weaponize OAuth 2.0 authentication—yes, that protocol you trusted implicitly last Tuesday when you breezed through another Microsoft 365 login screen—turning what should be a knight in shining armor into a digital Trojan horse galloping straight through...
  16. Mastering Zero Trust Security: Microsoft's Approach to a Modern, Resilient Enterprise

    Seven years ago, when Microsoft began its journey towards a Zero Trust security model, “trust but verify” was tossed out the window like an old Clippy paperclip, and “never trust, always verify” took its place. If you’re picturing a fortress of firewalls and VPN tunnels coiled around Microsoft’s...
  17. Beware of OAuth Phishing: How Cybercriminals Exploit Trust in Microsoft 365 Security

    They say trust is the cornerstone of any relationship—especially if that relationship is between you, the internet, and a determined Russian adversary with a penchant for phishy invitations and suspicious requests for OAuth codes. Phishing in the OAuth Era: New Tricks for Old Hackers When we...
  18. How Russian Hackers Are Exploiting Microsoft 365 and OAuth in 2025

    Microsoft 365 users—especially those with links to Ukraine or human rights circles—have recently been finding themselves the unwitting stars in an international cyber-thriller: Russian-linked hackers are back, and this time, they've upgraded from phishing Netflix logins to abusing Microsoft's...
  19. CISA’s BOD 25-01: Essential Federal Cloud Security Standards & Action Steps

    If you work for a U.S. government agency and you haven’t heard about CISA’s Binding Operational Directive 25-01, you might want to check your inbox, or possibly your junk folder—because ignoring this directive is about as hazardous to your career as leaving “12345” as your admin password...
  20. Protecting Microsoft 365 from Social Engineering & OAuth Attacks in the Modern Age

    We live in an era where simply clicking a video call link could lead to the digital equivalent of inviting a burglar in for tea—and hackers are getting increasingly creative with their invitations, especially when it comes to Microsoft 365 access. The Evolving Art of Social Engineering (or: Why...