Ai Security
The latest Ai Security coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
From Advisor to Actor: Microsoft 365 Copilot Gains Execution Powers in Government Clouds
Microsoft has taken a decisive step beyond chatbot answers in its most locked-down clouds. As of June 2026, declarative agents inside Microsoft 365 Copilot can now perform tasks—invoking APIs,...
Rudy Mitra Leaves Microsoft to Lead AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty as Amazon Monitors Azure
AWS announced on July 20, 2026, that Rudra Mitra—the Microsoft veteran who built and led its Purview data security, governance, and compliance business—has joined as vice president of security...
White House Now Steers Pre-Release Access to Frontier AI, Challenging Windows Release Calendars
The White House has begun deciding which organizations get early access to frontier AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google—a shift that injects federal security priorities directly into a...
Microsoft’s Project Perception Aims to Make AI Vulnerability Fixing Cheap Enough to Run Nonstop
Microsoft is quietly developing an AI-powered security tool that scans enterprise environments for software vulnerabilities and recommends fixes, routing work across multiple large language models to...
Copilot Crowned Best Free AI for Microsoft 365 in 2026 Guide—Here’s the Reality Check
Microsoft Copilot just earned a crown. On July 17, Cloudwards released its comprehensive guide to the best AI apps in 2026, and in a field of 27 tools, it named Copilot the best free option for...
1Password for Claude Brings Passwordless AI Logins to Mac — Here’s How It Keeps Secrets Safe
1Password launched a new integration for Anthropic’s Claude on July 16, 2026 that lets the AI assistant sign into websites without ever seeing, storing, or transmitting the user’s passwords,...
You Can Soon Self-Host a Near-Frontier AI Model — Kimi K3 Arrives July 27
Moonshot AI dropped a 2.8-trillion-parameter model on July 16 that doesn’t quite beat the top US systems overall but has already topped them on a critical coding benchmark. The bigger news: on July...
npm Supply Chain Attacks Target Windows Builds: Microsoft to Expose Tactics at Black Hat
Microsoft security researchers will disclose new intelligence on ongoing npm supply-chain attacks that have been actively targeting software ecosystems and developer workflows, the company said...
Microsoft Opens AI-Powered Bug Hunting to All: MDASH Vulnerability Scanner Hits Public Preview
Microsoft has quietly launched a public preview of its MDASH vulnerability-scanning technology, putting AI-powered bug hunting into the hands of security teams via the Defender command-line interface...
Microsoft's AI Agent Security Playbook: Give Them an Identity, Not a Master Key
Microsoft wants you to stop treating AI agents as just smarter service accounts. On July 16, the company published a detailed security blueprint urging organizations to enforce strict least-privilege...
Stop the Silent AI Data Leak: 5 Questions Your Vendor Must Answer Before Purchase
A mid-level manager at a global firm recently stumbled onto a disaster in the making: a department had started using a free AI coding assistant without telling anyone in IT. The tool was happily...
GPT-5.6 Sol Hardened by OpenAI's Secret AI Red Team, Prompt Injection Failures Drop 6x
Late on July 9, OpenAI shipped the GPT-5.6 model family with a new line of defense most users will never see: an internal adversarial AI named GPT-Red that spent months finding ways to break the...