Category Archives: News

Microsoft Cost Management updates—July 2024

Whether you’re a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where it’s being spent, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Microsoft Cost Management comes in. We’re always looking […]

Announcing mandatory multi-factor authentication for Azure sign-in

Learn how multifactor authentication (MFA) can protect your data and identity and get ready for Azure’s upcoming MFA requirement.  As cyberattacks become increasingly frequent, sophisticated, and damaging, safeguarding your digital assets has never been more critical. As part of Microsoft’s $20 billion dollar investment in security over the next five years and our commitment to enhancing […]

Elevate your AI deployments more efficiently with new deployment and cost management solutions for Azure OpenAI Service including self-service Provisioned

We’re excited to announce significant updates for Azure OpenAI Service, designed to help our 60,000 plus customers manage AI deployments more efficiently and cost-effectively beyond current pricing. With the introduction of self-service Provisioned deployments, we aim to help make your quota and deployment processes more agile, faster to market, and more economical. The technical value […]

GitHub scales on demand with Azure Functions

GitHub is the home of the world’s software developers, with more than 100 million developers and 420 million total repositories across the platform. To keep everything running smoothly and securely, GitHub collects a tremendous amount of data through an in-house pipeline made up of several components. But even though it was built for fault tolerance […]

Microsoft Patches Critical Copilot Studio Vulnerability Exposing Sensitive Data

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw impacting Microsoft’s Copilot Studio that could be exploited to access sensitive information. Tracked as CVE-2024-38206 (CVSS score: 8.5), the vulnerability has been described as an information disclosure bug stemming from a server-side request forgery (SSRF) attack. “An authenticated attacker can bypass Server-Side Request

North Korean Hackers Deploy New MoonPeak Trojan in Cyber Campaign

A new remote access trojan called MoonPeak has been discovered as being used by a state-sponsored North Korean threat activity cluster as part of a new campaign. Cisco Talos attributed the malicious cyber campaign to a hacking group it tracks as UAT-5394, which it said exhibits some level of tactical overlaps with a known nation-state […]