Data Security
The latest Data Security coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Critical Copilot Audit Flaw Fixed Silently as Governance Issues Mount
Microsoft has patched a critical flaw in Microsoft 365 Copilot that allowed attackers to access and summarize enterprise files without leaving any trace in audit logs—and did so without notifying...
Windows 10 Support Ends October 14: How to Secure Your Upgrade and See Through the AI Marketing Blitz
On October 14, 2025, Microsoft will extinguish security support for Windows 10, an operating system still powering an estimated hundreds of millions of PCs worldwide. After that date, no more...
Tanzania Airport Biometric Rollout Sparks IT Hiring Surge, but Gaps in Security Controls Loom
Tanzania’s airports are embarking on a major expansion of their biometric and immigration control systems, and the on-the-ground evidence is a hiring blitz for dozens of IT technicians and...
ChatGPT Enterprise Dominates 2025 Enterprise AI Chatbot Market as Google Makes Gemini Free for Workspace
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise has captured 82% of the global chatbot market share in 2025, maintaining its grip on the enterprise AI sector even after Google shook up the landscape by including its...
SSD Vanishing Act: Windows 11 KB5063878 Sparks Data Corruption Fears
The August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5063878) is triggering a dangerous storage regression: under sustained heavy write workloads, some solid-state drives abruptly stop responding,...
Coinbase's AI Mandate Firing Spree Holds Critical Lessons for Windows Enterprise Copilot Rollouts
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong didn’t mince words on a recent podcast: he fired engineers who repeatedly refused to use—or even try—the AI tools the company had provisioned. The revelation, from...
Inside Windows 11: How Newsrooms Publish Sports Galleries and Obituaries in Record Time
A single image of a Falcons–Cowboys football game and a quiet obituary for Odessa Dillard Foddrell, 84, of Conover, North Carolina, reveal the twin engines of local journalism: speed and...
Zscaler CEO's 'Wonderful AI' Remarks Ignite Customer Log Training Controversy—Company Denies Using Private Data
Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry set off a firestorm when he boasted that the company harnesses over half a trillion daily transactions—including full URLs and proprietary logs—to train its AI models,...
CVE-2025-53763: Microsoft Flags Azure Databricks Privilege Escalation Flaw, Urges Immediate Defensive Actions
Microsoft has disclosed a new privilege escalation vulnerability in Azure Databricks, tracked as CVE-2025-53763, which could allow an attacker with network access to elevate their privileges within...
Microsoft Delays Teams Copilot Screen Analysis to 2026 Amid Privacy Uproar
Microsoft has quietly shelved one of its most ambitious Copilot integrations for Teams, delaying a feature that would allow the AI assistant to analyze shared screen content during meetings until at...
Behind the NFL’s Massive AI Play: Copilot, Azure, and 2,500 Devices
More than 2,500 Microsoft Surface Copilot+ PCs are now in the hands of NFL coaches, players, and staff, marking a historic shift from sideline tablets to AI-powered assistants. The league’s...
Kansas City Lawyers Are Deploying AI With Caution: Pilots, Policies, and Ethics Training to Avoid Sanctions
Kansas City law firms that wait to adopt artificial intelligence risk being left behind—but rushing in without proper governance could be even more costly, as recent sanctions against lawyers who...