Cloud Security
The latest Cloud Security coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft Account Hacks Bypass 2FA: The Datacenter IP Mystery Explained
A growing number of Microsoft account holders are discovering successful sign-ins from IP addresses inside Microsoft's own network—despite having two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled and...
Microsoft Defender Antivirus Now Matches Paid Suites in Protection, Lab Tests Confirm
Independent test labs now rank Microsoft’s built-in antivirus among the top performers for both protection and system impact, erasing years of reputation as a bare-minimum solution. AV‑TEST...
The .NET Developer Paycheck: Salaries Surge Past $190K for Cloud-Savvy Engineers
.NET developers are no longer confined to cubicles writing Windows Forms apps. Today they build cloud-native APIs, containerized microservices, and cross-platform mobile apps—all while commanding...
How Azure DDoS Protection Absorbed a 3.47 Tbps Attack: Per-IP ML, Global Scrubbing, and What IT Teams Must Do Next
In late 2021, Microsoft's networks absorbed a massive 3.47 Tbps UDP reflection attack—among the largest ever recorded—on behalf of an Azure customer in Asia. This single incident, which also...
Microsoft Sentinel UEBA Now Ingests AWS, GCP, Okta Logs for AI-Driven Threat Detection
Microsoft has quietly rolled out a major update to its cloud-native SIEM, Microsoft Sentinel, significantly expanding the data sources its User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) engine can digest....
Zero-Click AgentFlayer Exploits Redefine Enterprise AI Security as Zenity Earns Gartner Nod
Zenity’s designation as a 2025 Gartner Cool Vendor for Agentic AI Trust, Risk and Security Management (TRiSM) coincides with the public disclosure of “AgentFlayer”—a class of zero-click...
Copilot Studio Now Intercepts Agent Actions for Real-Time Security Vetoes
Microsoft has shifted the security model for its Copilot Studio from passive guardrails to active, inline enforcement. Organizations can now route an AI agent’s planned actions—including prompts,...
Copilot Studio Now Lets Security Teams Block Agent Actions in Under One Second
Microsoft has handed enterprise defenders a powerful new capability: the ability to inspect and veto every planned action of an autonomous AI agent before execution, all within a single second....
Microsoft: Azure Latency Surge as Red Sea Cables Cut, Traffic Rerouted
On September 6, 2025, Microsoft issued a service health advisory warning Azure customers that multiple undersea fiber-optic cable cuts in the Red Sea are causing increased latency and intermittent...
MSPs Gain New Tools as Vendors Unleash Unified Partner Hubs, PAYG Billing, and AI Security
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Mandatory MFA Comes to Azure CLI, PowerShell, and IaC Tools—What You Need to Know Before October
Starting in October, Microsoft will begin enforcing multifactor authentication for all write operations performed through the Azure Resource Manager control plane—including Azure CLI, PowerShell,...
Parallo Alumni Launch Spotto.ai, an AI-Powered Azure Cost Killer for MSPs
Shaun Webber, Symon Thurlow, and Jay Strydom—three former engineers from Azure specialist MSP Parallo—have quietly launched Spotto.ai, an AI-native platform designed to help managed service...