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Microsoft’s August Patches Fix Kerberos dMSA Vulnerability That Lets Attackers Escalate to Domain Admin
A newly disclosed vulnerability in Windows Server 2025’s delegated Managed Service Accounts (dMSA) feature allows an attacker with initial access to specific Kerberos secrets to escalate to full...
Microsoft Universal Print Adds Pull Print to Curb Exposed Documents and Print Waste
Microsoft has closed a significant security loophole in office printing with the general availability of Universal Print's pull printing feature. Dubbed "Universal Print Anywhere," the capability...
Microsoft’s Universal Print Anywhere Now GA: Secure Pull Printing for Windows, macOS with QR Release
Microsoft has officially launched Universal Print anywhere — its cloud-native pull printing feature — into general availability, arming IT administrators with a secure, cross-platform solution...
Microsoft’s TPM 2.0 Mandate Is Non-Negotiable: Higher Education’s Multi-Million Ransomware Lesson
Microsoft has declared its TPM 2.0 hardware requirement for Windows 11 “non-negotiable,” closing the door on any hopes that the company might lower security standards to ease the transition from...
Accenture's AI Coding Overhaul: Certifications, Community, and a 55% Productivity Leap
Accenture has quietly turned GitHub Copilot into a company-wide development force, arming thousands of engineers with an AI pair programmer and wrapping the rollout in a structured enablement machine...
CellTrust's SL2 Lands in Microsoft Teams Store, Delivering Compliant Mobile Message Capture to Purview
Regulated enterprises can now deploy mobile messaging capture directly inside Microsoft Teams, as CellTrust’s SL2 platform lands in both Microsoft AppSource and the Teams Store. The move...
Microsoft Details Entra ID Custom Claims Method That Injects Sponsor IDs into Tokens Using Directory Extensions
Microsoft has outlined a practical, five-step method for issuing custom SAML and OIDC claims from Entra ID, using directory extension attributes to inject organization-specific data like sponsor IDs...
Live Hack Exposes Windows Hello Biometric Loophole—Researchers Say Disable It Now
A packed auditorium at Black Hat 2025 in Las Vegas watched in silence as security researcher Tillmann Osswald remotely enrolled his own face onto his colleague’s Windows Hello-protected...
Windows Hello Biometric Bypass: Researchers Swap Faces to Hijack PCs—Here’s How ESS Stops It
Two German researchers standing on the Black Hat stage just demonstrated how an attacker with local admin rights can swap their own facial biometrics into a stolen laptop’s Windows Hello...
Entra ID Anchors 2025 Windows SSO as Passkeys Rise and Pricing Models Diverge
Enterprise SSO buyers navigating Windows identity for 2025 are facing a landscape where Microsoft Entra ID cements its role as the central policy engine, phishing-resistant passkeys become the...
Barracuda Entra ID Backup Premium Shields 13 Identity Components Against Microsoft’s 30-Day Recovery Limit
Barracuda Networks has officially released Entra ID Backup Premium, a cloud-native backup service designed to protect 13 critical Microsoft Entra ID components and extend recovery far beyond the...
HID’s New EPM and Crescendo Keys Take Aim at Passkey Deployment Headaches
HID Global is tackling the last mile of enterprise passkey adoption head-on with a new management service and refreshed hardware line. On August 5, the company unveiled Enterprise Passkey Management...