Articles Tagged “Microsoft Security”
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Microsoft Teams Blocks External Meeting Bots by Policy
A new Microsoft Teams admin policy automatically blocks identified external meeting bots, with general availability due by late September 2026.
Windows 11 Drops WMIC, a Longtime Malware Favorite
Microsoft has removed the WMIC command-line tool from Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, closing a living-off-the-land binary abused by ransomware for years.
Microsoft Project Perception Puts AI Agents on Defense
Microsoft unveiled Project Perception on July 27, an agentic security platform with red, blue and green AI agents plus the MAI-Cyber-1-Flash model.
Microsoft Open-Sources RAMPART and Clarity — A Safety-First Toolkit for AI Agent Development
Microsoft released RAMPART and Clarity as open-source tools on May 20, 2026 — operationalizing AI agent safety by turning red-team findings into repeatable tests and documenting design assumptions in agent workflows.
Microsoft Unveils MDASH — A Multi-Model Agentic Scanning Harness That Tops the Vulnerability Benchmark
Microsoft announced MDASH on May 12, 2026 — a multi-model agentic scanning harness that delivers state-of-the-art results on a leading industry vulnerability discovery benchmark and orchestrates frontier models for defensive cybersecurity.
Microsoft's March Patch Tuesday Fixes 2 Zero-Days and 79 Vulnerabilities — Including Critical Office Preview Pane Bugs
The March 2026 Patch Tuesday addresses 79 flaws across Windows, Office, and SQL Server, with two publicly disclosed zero-days and three Critical-rated remote code execution bugs.