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Commvault and Microsoft announced on June 24, 2026, that Microsoft will offer Commvault’s AI-powered cyber resilience technology as a native independent software vendor service inside Microsoft Azure for enterprise customers. The move is not just another marketplace listing with friendlier...

ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess disclosed in Canberra on June 24, 2026, that nation-state hackers had compromised an Australian critical infrastructure provider, mapped its network, stolen active user and IT administrator credentials, and maintained access that ASIO assessed was intended to...

Forty-one percent of workers surveyed in May 2026 said their employer had given them no artificial-intelligence tools, training, or guidance for using AI at work, while 76 percent said they had already used personally sourced AI tools to complete job tasks. The workplace AI story is no longer...

CISA on June 25, 2026, published an industrial control systems advisory for Horner Automation Cscape versions before 10.2 SP3, warning that a local flaw in CSP file parsing could expose information and allow arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability is not remotely exploitable, and that...

Microsoft’s original Secure Boot trust chain began expiring on June 24, 2026, when the Microsoft Corporation KEK CA 2011 certificate reached its end date on Windows PCs, servers, and other UEFI devices that still depend on the 2011-era keys. The immediate risk is not that millions of machines...

Microsoft is telling Windows users and IT administrators in June 2026 to continue phased Secure Boot certificate deployments using Windows updates, OEM firmware, validation tooling, and staged rollout practices as the ecosystem moves from aging 2011 certificates toward newer 2023 Secure Boot...

On June 24, 2026, Broadcom’s Symantec threat hunters disclosed a new Windows backdoor called Mistic that has been used since at least April 2026 in intrusions tied to the ransomware access broker KongTuke, also known as Woodgnat. The discovery matters because Mistic is not just another commodity...

On June 24, 2021, Microsoft announced Windows 11 as the successor to Windows 10, promising a cleaner design, stricter security baseline, and a more modern PC experience before releasing it generally on October 5, 2021. Five years later, the operating system looks less like a bold break with the...

CISA has framed Secure Access Service Edge as a practical modernization path for Trusted Internet Connections 3.0, telling federal agencies in new guidance that distributed cloud-delivered security can replace perimeter-era traffic backhauling while preserving the visibility and control TIC was...

On June 24, 2026, Microsoft’s original Secure Boot Key Exchange Key from 2011 reaches its expiration date, forcing Windows PCs, servers, virtual machines, and dual-boot systems to move onto Microsoft’s newer 2023 Secure Boot certificate chain. The deadline will not brick ordinary Windows...

OpenAI expanded its Daybreak cybersecurity initiative on June 22, 2026, introducing GPT-5.5-Cyber, an updated Codex Security plugin, a partner program for vetted defenders, and Patch the Planet, an open-source remediation effort built with security partners. The announcement is not merely...

Agentic AI is the shift from chatbots that answer questions to software agents that can plan, click, buy, schedule, retrieve data, and complete multi-step tasks on a user’s behalf across apps, browsers, and operating systems. That is why the phrase has suddenly escaped product roadmaps and...

Microsoft-compatible antivirus protection in 2026 is less about finding a single “best” app than deciding whether Windows’ built-in Defender stack is enough for your risk profile, with third-party suites adding value mainly through extras such as VPNs, identity monitoring, password tools...

Agentic AI is the term now being used for AI systems that can plan tasks, use tools, make intermediate decisions, and take actions on a user’s behalf across apps, websites, files, and business systems with varying levels of human supervision. The reason it feels like a science-fiction warning is...

Heimdal’s 2026 AI risk research says ChatGPT is present in 71% of UK IT environments and Microsoft Copilot in 68%, while IT and security teams on both sides of the Atlantic increasingly worry that governance, visibility, and security controls are lagging behind adoption. The headline is not that...

Agentic AI is the industry term for AI systems that can pursue a goal, use tools, make intermediate decisions, and take actions on a user’s behalf, and in 2025 and 2026 it moved from research demos into browsers, office suites, developer tools, security platforms, and Windows-adjacent workflows...

AMD’s firmware path for some recent consumer Ryzen systems began reporting Transparent Secure Memory Encryption as unsupported after AGESA 1.2.7.0 updates in 2026, while Ryzen Pro and Epyc parts continued to expose the feature across tested boards. That is the plain answer to the mystery, but...

Potter County commissioners in Amarillo, Texas, voted unanimously on June 22, 2026, to adopt an AI Appropriate Use Policy that puts the county IT department in charge of approving and implementing artificial intelligence tools for employee use. The vote is a small local-government item with a...

OpenAI on Monday, June 22, 2026, announced a more capable and more permissive GPT-5.5-Cyber release for vetted defenders, expanded government and institutional access, a Codex Security plugin, and a new open-source remediation effort called Patch the Planet. The company is not merely shipping...

Microsoft confirmed on June 18, 2026, that Windows security updates released on June 9 can cause the Recycle Bin’s delete confirmation dialog to show an internal $Rxxxxx filename instead of the user-facing filename across supported Windows client and server releases. The bug is small in...