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Microsoft Teams Is Adding Protection Against Brand Impersonation Calls, and It Reflects a Broader Pattern Worth Understanding

Microsoft Teams Is Adding Protection Against Brand Impersonation Calls, and It Reflects a Broader Pattern Worth Understanding

The attack surface that matters to sophisticated threat actors is not the one that is hardest to breach technically. It is the one that is most trusted by the people who use it. Microsoft Teams occupies exactly that position for the organizations that rely on it as their primary collaboration platform: it is familiar, it […]

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AI Investment in Finance Is Producing Returns, but Only for Organizations That Have Approached It Correctly

AI Investment in Finance Is Producing Returns, but Only for Organizations That Have Approached It Correctly

The finance sector’s relationship with artificial intelligence has moved past the point where adoption itself is the story. Investment is widespread, leadership buy-in is nearly universal, and the integration work is actively underway across the majority of organizations. The more important question now is whether that investment is producing the financial value it is supposed […]

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The Human Factor in Cyber Resilience Is Both the Central Problem and the Most Underutilized Solution

The Human Factor in Cyber Resilience Is Both the Central Problem and the Most Underutilized Solution

The question of where an organization’s cyber resilience strategy is most vulnerable rarely points toward infrastructure or software when examined honestly. Outdated systems and unpatched vulnerabilities are real risks, but they are also visible ones that security teams are trained to identify and address. The more persistent vulnerability is the human layer: the employees who […]

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Microsoft’s New Windows Backup Feature Addresses One of the Most Disruptive Moments in Device Management

Microsoft’s New Windows Backup Feature Addresses One of the Most Disruptive Moments in Device Management

Device transitions represent one of the most reliably disruptive events in an employee’s working life, and the disruption is disproportionate to what is actually happening. A new device or a fresh OS installation does not change what an employee needs to do. It temporarily removes the configured environment in which they know how to do […]

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The Microsoft Copilot Vulnerability That Requires Only One Click to Expose Your Sensitive Data

The Microsoft Copilot Vulnerability That Requires Only One Click to Expose Your Sensitive Data

Security researchers at Varonis have documented an attack technique called Reprompt that allows attackers to extract sensitive information from Microsoft Copilot through a single user click, without requiring phishing emails, fake login pages, or malicious downloads that security awareness training teaches employees to avoid. The technique exploits a class of vulnerability called prompt injection, in […]

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A Windows Update Is Blocking Cloud PC Access for Some Microsoft 365 Users

A Windows Update Is Blocking Cloud PC Access for Some Microsoft 365 Users

A Windows Update released around 7:00 p.m. UTC on January 13 has introduced authentication failures for some Microsoft 365 Cloud PC users, blocking access to virtual desktops in certain business configurations. Microsoft has identified OS Build 26100.7623 (KB5074109) as the likely trigger, confirmed that the Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows Update teams are working to […]

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A Palo Alto Firewall Bug Lets Attackers Force Systems Offline Without Credentials, and a Patch Is Available

A Palo Alto Firewall Bug Lets Attackers Force Systems Offline Without Credentials, and a Patch Is Available

Palo Alto Networks has disclosed and patched a denial-of-service vulnerability in PAN-OS affecting the GlobalProtect remote access VPN system. The flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to send malformed requests to the GlobalProtect Portal or Gateway that trigger a firewall crash, forcing the affected device into maintenance mode and cutting off VPN access until the system […]

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Google Just Changed How Android Source Code Gets Released, and Some Teams Will Feel It More Than Others

Google Just Changed How Android Source Code Gets Released, and Some Teams Will Feel It More Than Others

Google is ending nearly two decades of quarterly Android Open Source Project releases, moving to a twice-yearly schedule with a major source code drop in Q2 and a smaller one in Q4. Android itself is not slowing down. The operating system will continue receiving four version updates per year, including quarterly platform releases. What is […]

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