Ai Security
The latest Ai Security coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
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...
Microsoft Ships Experimental Tool to Stop AI Agents from Going Rogue — But It’s Only Half the Answer
Microsoft has released an experimental security middleware designed to prevent prompt injection attacks that could trick AI agents into leaking secrets, overwriting files, or posting malicious...
AWS Security Hub Now Scans Azure VMs and Functions: What Multicloud Teams Need to Know
AWS Security Hub can now discover and assess Microsoft Azure virtual machines, container images, Function Apps, and identities, the company announced July 14. The expansion means security operations...
Microsoft CEO Nadella: Enterprise AI Poses a ‘Reverse Information Paradox’ Risk
On July 13, 2026, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published an essay on X that reframes the biggest risk of enterprise AI. Companies aren’t just paying for AI services—they may be handing over their...
Study: GitHub Copilot Chat Produced Unsafe Code in 100% of Malicious Prompt Tests
A newly disclosed security study has found that GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio Code can be systematically manipulated into generating unsafe code, with every one of 816 crafted prompts...