Cloudflare has reported a sharp fall in government-directed internet shutdowns in the final quarter of 2025, alongside widespread disruptions linked to cable damage, extreme weather and conflict-related power outages. The company said it observed more than 180 internet disruptions across 2025. It recorded a single government-ordered shutdown in the fourth quarter. It also tracked outages … Read more
Microsoft remained the most imitated brand in phishing attacks during the fourth quarter of 2025, according to data from Check Point Research, which tracked brand impersonation across phishing attempts globally. The research unit said Microsoft accounted for 22% of all detected brand phishing attempts in the quarter. Google followed with 13% and Amazon with 9%. … Read more
At the annual Build conference, Microsoft announced agent loop, a new capability within Azure Logic Apps that allows developers to build AI agents directly into their enterprise workflows. Agent loop is a central component for AI Agent development within Logic Apps. It is a new action type integrating a chosen AI model (like Azure OpenAI), … Read more
Microsoft confirms 10/10 Azure vulnerability. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Update, May 11, 2025: This story, originally published May 9, has been updated with more details on the move towards greater cloud Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) transparency by both Microsoft and Google. It’s not often that a truly critical security vulnerability emerges that hits … Read more
BeyondTrust has reported an all-time high in the number of Microsoft vulnerabilities for 2024, with total vulnerabilities reaching 1,360, representing an 11% increase from the previous record set in 2022. The annual Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report from BeyondTrust indicates that despite ongoing efforts by Microsoft to improve security, attackers are continuing to exploit significant weaknesses, particularly … Read more
microsoft azure Embraces Rust: official SDK Beta Released, Challenging AWS in Cloud Development March 25, 2025 Rust Enters the Azure Cloud: A New Era for Secure and efficient Cloud Computing Redmond, WA – Microsoft has officially launched the beta version of its Azure SDK for Rust, marking a meaningful step towards empowering developers to build … Read more
Microsoft recently announced several new updates to its iSCSI-based Azure Elastic SAN, a fully managed and cloud-native storage area network (SAN) offering. Since the general availability (GA) release of Azure Elastic SAN in early 2024, the company has introduced various new capabilities, such as a public preview of auto scale for capacity, the general availability … Read more
Microsoft Research unveiled AIOpsLab, an open-source framework designed to advance the development and evaluation of AI agents for cloud operations. The tool provides a standardized and scalable platform to address challenges in fault diagnosis, incident mitigation, and system reliability within complex cloud environments. As microservices and serverless architectures become standard in enterprise IT, their complexity … Read more