Auditing
The latest Auditing coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Windows 11 24H2 NTLMv1 SSO Block Enforces in 2026—Audit Now
Microsoft will flip a default switch in October 2026 that blocks single sign-on requests relying on NTLMv1-derived cryptography in Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025. The change is gated by a...
Microsoft’s Agent Factory: 5 Observability Practices Every Enterprise AI Team Must Adopt
Microsoft’s Agent Factory series has turned its focus to a make-or-break element of enterprise AI: observability. In the third installment, published this month, the company argues that without...
Microsoft Quietly Patches Copilot Flaw That Let Insiders Access Files Without Audit Traces
A security researcher discovered that a simple prompt technique could make Microsoft 365 Copilot summarize sensitive corporate files without leaving the required Purview audit records. Microsoft...
Copilot Audit Bypass: Microsoft's Silent Patch Leaves Log Integrity in Question
A routine prompt tweak—adding “do not include a link”—is all it takes to make Microsoft Copilot quietly access and summarize sensitive files without generating the audit record that...
Microsoft Quietly Patches Copilot Audit-Log Bypass, Keeps Customers in the Dark
Security researchers have uncovered a critical blind spot in Microsoft’s Purview audit logging for Copilot: certain prompts can retrieve sensitive file contents without leaving any trace in audit...
Missing Photo Metadata in Local Sports Journalism Could Trigger Lawsuits and Privacy Nightmares
A single image published on a local news site—a wire photo from a Panthers-Texans preseason game, paired with a brief weather-style caption instead of a proper credit line—has exposed the...
Microsoft 365 Copilot’s Missing Audit Logs: The Hidden Risk Behind Zero-Click Data Leaks
When Microsoft patched CVE-2025-32711 in June 2025, it closed a critical zero-click vulnerability that allowed attackers to silently siphon sensitive data through Microsoft 365 Copilot. Dubbed...
Microsoft's COPILOT Function Lets You Write AI Prompts Inside Excel Cells
Microsoft has embedded generative AI into the very fabric of Excel with a new COPILOT function, a move that transforms spreadsheet cells into natural-language prompt boxes. Starting this week,...
Microsoft's New COPILOT Function Brings AI to Excel's Calculation Engine, Sparking Governance and Licensing Fears
Microsoft has quietly slipped generative AI into Excel’s formula bar. The new COPILOT function, now rolling out to Microsoft 365 Insiders, accepts natural-language prompts and cell ranges, then...
Smarsh Plugs Copilot Compliance Gap with Microsoft API Integration
Regulated firms rushing to adopt Microsoft 365 Copilot face a stark reality: every AI-generated summary, draft, or recommendation could become a regulated record that examiners will want to see....
UK Government Bets on Agentic AI to Transform Public Services by 2027
The UK government has drawn up plans to trial agentic AI across public services, with a potential nationwide rollout by late 2027 if pilot programs prove safe and effective. The initiative, outlined...
GPT-5 Supercharges Windows Copilot with Deeper Reasoning, But a Sodium Bromide Poisoning Exposes Critical Safety Flaws
A man nearly died after following an older ChatGPT model’s dietary advice—replacing table salt with toxic sodium bromide—just as Microsoft rushes to weave OpenAI’s most advanced reasoning...