Articles from July 15, 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published on July 15, 2026
Active Directory Denial-of-Service Flaw Emerges: How to Prepare Before Patches Arrive
On July 14, 2026, at 7:00 a.m. Pacific time, Microsoft published CVE-2026-57976, a security vulnerability it describes as "Windows Active Directory Domain Services Denial of Service Vulnerability."...
Azure CycleCloud 8.9.1 Fixes Dangerous Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Microsoft shipped an out-of-band security update for Azure CycleCloud on July 14, plugging a hole that could allow an attacker with limited credentials to take complete control of the...
Why You Can't Patch CVE-2026-57107 Yet—and What to Do to Protect Your Windows Servers
Microsoft dropped a new elevation-of-privilege vulnerability on July 14, 2026, and it lands squarely on Windows Admin Center—a tool that sits at the heart of server management for countless...
CVE-2026-57097: Microsoft Confirms XML Security Bypass, but Details Are Scarce
Microsoft has published a new security advisory for a vulnerability identified as CVE-2026-57097, a security feature bypass in Microsoft XML, but the notice leaves critical questions unanswered....
CVE-2026-56185: Your Windows Admin Center Is Likely Vulnerable — Here’s the Fix That Windows Update Misses
On July 14, 2026, Microsoft published a security advisory for an information-disclosure vulnerability in Windows Admin Center — but the fix had already been available for more than three months....
Microsoft’s CVE-2026-56193: An Office Flaw Without a Patch, Affected List, or Risk Rating
On July 14, 2026, Microsoft published a new vulnerability identifier, CVE-2026-56193, for an information disclosure issue in Microsoft Office. The advisory, posted to the Microsoft Security Response...
CVE-2026-54127: What to Do About the New Hyper-V Elevation of Privilege Flaw
Microsoft has acknowledged a new security vulnerability in Windows Hyper-V, tagged as CVE-2026-54127, but the July 14 advisory offers scant details beyond an elevation of privilege classification....
June 2026 Copilot Update: Free Notebooks Arrive, but Cowork Billing Now Demands a Hard Cap
Microsoft has quietly redrawn the price tags around its most advanced AI tools. The company’s June 2026 update to Microsoft 365 Copilot makes the Notebooks workspace—previously locked behind a...
Microsoft Purview's New Simulation Mode Aims to End Noisy Data Classification
Microsoft is preparing a tool that lets compliance administrators test custom data classifiers against real production content before those classifiers ever influence a live policy. The capability,...
Microsoft Cancels Copilot Feature That Would Have Scheduled Tasks with Plain English
A feature that many Microsoft 365 Copilot users had circled on their calendars has been erased from the roadmap entirely. On July 14, 2026, Microsoft updated its official roadmap to mark item 531913...
Microsoft Purview DLP Now Lets Admins Block Specific External Users from SharePoint, OneDrive Files
Microsoft has begun rolling out a new Data Loss Prevention action that lets organizations block individual external users or entire domains from accessing sensitive files in SharePoint Online and...
Microsoft Purview Now Reads Images: OCR Comes to Data Security Investigations
Microsoft flipped the switch on optical character recognition for Purview Data Security Investigations, a move that gives security teams the ability to extract and analyze text trapped inside images....