Cloud Security
The latest Cloud Security coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
6 Critical Strategies to Stop Password Spraying Attacks on Entra ID in 2025
Password spraying attacks have become one of the most pervasive threats to Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) accounts, with recent incidents affecting over 80,000 users. Unlike brute-force...
Microsoft’s AI Assistant slashes cloud migration time with automated cost and security checks.
Organizations plotting a course to the cloud face an overwhelming array of choices, technical requirements, and economic calculations. With digital transformation on every executive’s agenda,...
Microsoft 365 Authentication Outage June 2025: Root Causes, Business Impact & Recovery Steps
On June 13, 2025, Microsoft 365 users across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa were hit by a widespread authentication outage that lasted nearly 8 hours, marking one of the most...
Microsoft 365 Authentication Outage Exposes Cloud Identity Risks and Resilience Gaps
Cloud-reliant enterprises and everyday users awoke to yet another reminder of the intricacies and fragility underlying even the world’s most trusted digital platforms. Microsoft 365, the software...
Google Cloud Outage: Key Lessons in Cloud Resilience and Risk Management
A hush fell over the global digital landscape as a significant outage swept through Google Cloud, sending shockwaves far beyond the corridors of the tech giant itself. On Thursday, hundreds of...
Google Cloud and Cloudflare Outage: Key Risks and Lessons for Businesses
Cloud services form the backbone of the digital world, powering everything from global social platforms to critical enterprise solutions. When an outage occurs at this level of infrastructure, its...
Microsoft DLP tools shield data from cascading supply chain breaches and Azure outages
The global IT landscape was rocked by a recent catastrophic outage, laying bare just how vulnerable even the most sophisticated digital infrastructures can be to the ripple effects of unforeseen...
How Cybercriminals Exploit TeamFiltration for Office 365 Attacks: Detection & Prevention
Cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging TeamFiltration, a legitimate penetration testing tool, to launch large-scale attacks against Office 365 accounts. This sophisticated campaign highlights how...
Lesson from 2025 Cloud Outage: Multi-Cloud & Chaos Engineering Are Now Essential
The digital world came to a standstill in early 2025 when a cascading cloud outage disrupted critical services across multiple continents. What began as a localized network failure in a major cloud...
Microsoft 365 Copilot zero-day leak lets attackers steal data via prompt injection
The discovery of the EchoLeak vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot has sent shockwaves through the enterprise security community, exposing critical weaknesses in AI-powered productivity tools. This...
Microsoft 365 Copilot flaw CVE-2025-32711 enables zero-click data theft via markdown
Zero-click vulnerabilities represent the most dangerous class of cybersecurity threats, requiring no user interaction to compromise systems. The recently disclosed CVE-2025-32711, dubbed "EchoLeak,"...
Google Cloud Outage 2025: How It Disrupted Spotify, Discord & Major Services
On June 12, 2025, a cascading failure in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) brought down some of the internet's most widely used services, including Spotify, Discord, and several enterprise applications....