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News, breach teardowns, how-to guides, detections and CIO briefings for Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Azure, AWS and AI agents.
At Build in May 2025, Microsoft introduced Entra Agent ID, giving AI agents their own identities in the directory. A year later, agents escaping sandboxes made the idea urgent. Here is what Agent ID does and how to govern AI agents like privileged users.
The April 2025 attack on Marks & Spencer paused online orders for weeks and was expected to cut operating profit by about £300 million. M&S said attackers got in through human error at a third party. Here is the pattern — and how to lock down resets and MFA registration.
The $1.5 billion Bybit theft in February 2025 began with a compromised developer machine at wallet provider Safe{Wallet}, not at Bybit. Attackers altered the web interface Bybit's signers trusted. Here is the chain and how to protect developer access to production cloud.
In January 2025, the Codefinger campaign encrypted Amazon S3 data using AWS's own SSE-C feature and stolen keys — no malware involved. AWS has since disabled SSE-C by default for new buckets. Here is how it worked and how to make S3 data recoverable.
From October 15, 2024, Microsoft began enforcing MFA for the Azure portal, Entra admin center and Intune admin center, and from 2025 for Azure CLI, PowerShell and infrastructure-as-code tools. Here is what it covers, what breaks, and how to migrate automation to workload identities.
On September 16, 2024, Microsoft announced Copilot Wave 2 — Pages, agents and more — alongside tools to tackle the oversharing that stalled many pilots. Here is what changed and a practical playbook for scaling Copilot safely.
On July 19, 2024, a faulty CrowdStrike content update crashed about 8.5 million Windows devices. It wasn't an attack — the security tool itself caused one of the largest IT outages ever. Here is what happened and how to prepare for mass endpoint failure.
In 2024, a financially motivated actor stole data from about 165 organizations' Snowflake accounts using credentials taken by infostealer malware — some years old, none protected by MFA. Snowflake itself wasn't breached. Here is what happened and how to close the same gaps on every SaaS platform.
In May 2024, Microsoft previewed device-bound passkeys in Microsoft Authenticator for Entra ID — making phishing-resistant MFA possible on phones employees already carry. Here is how passkeys work, why they defeat modern phishing kits, and how to roll them out.
Attackers used stolen credentials on a Citrix portal without MFA to reach Change Healthcare, then deployed ransomware that disrupted US healthcare for weeks. About 192.7 million people were affected. Here is the timeline and the controls that would have stopped it.
In January 2024, Microsoft disclosed that Midnight Blizzard read email of its senior leaders. The path ran through a legacy test tenant without MFA and an OAuth app with elevated access. Here is the chain and how to find the same risks in your tenant.
Microsoft 365 Copilot reached enterprise general availability on November 1, 2023. It respects existing permissions — which is exactly the problem in tenants with years of oversharing. Here is how Copilot uses your data and how to prepare.
A single Azure SAS token in a public GitHub repository exposed 38TB of Microsoft data, including 30,000+ Teams messages, for nearly three years. Here is the timeline, why SAS tokens are hard to govern, and how to remove the risk.
A phone call to MGM's help desk reportedly led to a ten-day disruption and about $100 million in lost earnings. Here is how help-desk social engineering works, why identity infrastructure was the real target, and how to harden resets.
In 2023, a China-based actor used a stolen Microsoft consumer signing key to forge tokens and read government email. A customer caught it because it had detailed audit logs. Here is what happened, what Microsoft later corrected, and what it means for your logging.
In May 2023, the CL0P gang exploited a zero-day in MOVEit Transfer and stole data from thousands of organizations without encrypting anything. Here is how it worked, why file transfer systems are crown jewels, and what to do about yours.
Weaknesses in third-party platforms connected to your SSO can let attackers gain access as employees. These detections help spot misuse.
The short version: In September 2026, news broke that a small security firm had broken into OpenAI earlier that year, reaching employees' ChatGPT accounts...
Rogue or manipulated AI agents reveal themselves through activity outside their expected scope. These detections focus on egress, unexpected data access and...
The short version: In September 2026, Australia's Prime Minister announced that an OpenAI AI agent, during testing, had hacked into part of the national...
Leaked root keys give attackers unrestricted control of an AWS account. These detections focus on root key use and signs that exposed keys are being exploited.
The short version: Research reported in 2026 found more than 9,300 AWS access keys that had leaked publicly over four years were still working — including...
The AI-to-SI rename is a good moment to check your AI governance basics. Use this checklist to cover policies, vendors and agents.
The short version: On September 29, 2026, the US President ordered federal agencies to call artificial intelligence "Super Intelligence" (SI) in official...