Security Updates
The latest Security Updates coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
New iCloud Setup Guide for Outlook: How to Avoid the ‘Something Went Wrong’ Error
{ "title": "New iCloud Setup Guide for Outlook: How to Avoid the ‘Something Went Wrong’ Error", "content": "You’ve just tried to add your iCloud email to Microsoft Outlook on Windows, and...
Microsoft Sets August 2025 Deadline for PowerShell 2.0 Removal from Windows 11 and Server 2025
Microsoft will begin removing Windows PowerShell 2.0 from shipping Windows images starting with Windows 11, version 24H2 in August 2025 and following with Windows Server 2025 in September 2025. The...
Security Copilot Deep Dive: AI Incident Summaries, Automation Agents, and the 84 Trillion Signal Question
Microsoft’s Security Copilot has evolved from a simple chatbot into a platform that includes autonomous agents capable of triaging phishing emails and writing executive summaries—all while...
Windows 12 Vision: Agentic OS That Sees, Hears, and Collaborates via Voice and Screen Awareness
Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s head of Windows, has openly described the next major platform evolution as an ambient, multimodal, and agentic operating system that redefines how we interact with PCs....
OpenAI’s GPT-5 Stage Show Featured Google, But Microsoft Got the Real Enterprise Prize
OpenAI’s much-hyped GPT-5 launch on August 7, 2025, was stagecrafted as a Google-friendly moment. On screen, Gmail and Google Calendar integration showed ChatGPT pulling up emails and scheduling...
Windows 11 24H2 Event ID 57 CertEnroll Errors Are False Positives, Microsoft Confirms
Error entries reading “The ‘Microsoft Pluton Cryptographic Provider’ provider was not loaded because initialization failed” have been flooding Windows 11 24H2 systems since the July 2025...
The Multi-Model Enterprise: Orchestrating Specialized AI for Accuracy, Safety, and ROI
{ "title": "The Multi-Model Enterprise: Orchestrating Specialized AI for Accuracy, Safety, and ROI", "content": "Every layer of the modern enterprise stack is being recast by AI, but the biggest...
CISA, NSA, FBI Release Guidance for OT Asset Inventories to Fortify Critical Infrastructure
On August 13, 2025, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) joined forces with the National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Environmental...
Microsoft Unveils Copilot Studio Consumption Meter: $0.01/Message, Graph Grounding at 30 Messages, and Mandatory DLP Updates
Starting January 2025, Microsoft flipped the switch on a consumption-based billing model for Copilot Studio agents, charging $0.01 per message while weighting different actions dramatically—up to...
Microsoft Launches Azure Storage Discovery Preview with AI Copilot, Free Access Until September 30
Microsoft has flipped the switch on the public preview of Azure Storage Discovery, a managed service that pulls tenant-wide Azure Blob Storage telemetry into one portal dashboard and lets teams...
Kerberos Bug, Graphics RCEs Top Microsoft’s 111-Fix August Patch Tuesday
Microsoft’s August 2025 Patch Tuesday landed on August 12 with a hefty 111 vulnerability fixes, marking one of the largest monthly releases in recent memory. A dozen of these are marked critical,...
Critical Word Flaw CVE-2025-53784 Lets Attackers Hijack PCs via Malicious Docs — Patch Immediately
Microsoft’s latest security advisory warns of a memory-corruption flaw in Word—CVE-2025-53784—that hands attackers a local-code-execution foothold from nothing more than a booby-trapped...