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GUEST OPINION: This month, Microsoft patched two zero-day vulnerabilities that can bypass security features in Microsoft Office and Windows Mark of the Web. Both vulnerabilities were exploited in the wild, though specifics about these attacks were not publicly disclosed, though given the prevalence of Microsoft Office and Windows Mark of the Web, these vulnerabilities should be at the top of the remediation list.

With a vivid demonstration of how fragile the world's technology ecosystem is when one cybersecurity vendor makes a configuration mistake, 45Drives president Dr Doug Milburn says it's time for organisations of all sizes to take greater control of their infrastructure, in a move he dubs demicrosoftification.

NetApp and Broadcom maximise the value of customers’ private and hybrid cloud environments

Foundation Good Things Australia partnered with Microsoft and Telstra to launch the Digital Sisters: AI for Good project that will support refugee and migrant women in building their understanding and use of AI.

GUEST RESEARCH: Tenable — the exposure management company,has disclosed that its Tenable Research Team has discovered a critical information disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft’s Copilot Studio via a server-side request forgery (SSRF), which allowed researchers access to potentially sensitive information regarding service internals with potential cross-tenant impact. This vulnerability exists due to improper handling of redirect status codes for user-configurable actions within Copilot Studio. This follows the team’s recent discoveries of flaws in Microsoft’s Azure Health Bot service, Azure Service Tags and three vulnerabilities in the Azure API Management service.

Telecommunication company Telstra announced it integrated Microsoft’s AI technology with its Intercity Fibre Network project, which the telco claimed will “accelerate” the digital transformation and develop Australia’s AI ecosystem.

COMPANY NEWS:  Yubico has worked closely  with Microsoft for over a decade to keep businesses around the world and the Microsoft solutions they use both secure and phishing-resistant. Recognising the importance of multi-factor authentication (MFA), Microsoft recently mandated that MFA be used by all Azure users – a critical move to require stronger authentication for end users to prevent phishing attacks.

Dell’Oro Group revised its data centre capex forecast upward to a 24% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) by 2028 as a result of surging demand in AI-related data centre infrastructure.

COMPANY NEWS: Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for hybrid cloud organisations, today announced Microsoft 365 Backup Storage as an integrated component of Commvault Cloud Backup and Recovery for Microsoft 365.

Cevo, the born-in-the-cloud AWS Advanced consultancy helping businesses move faster with confidence, has appointed Mark Badenach as its new Sales Director.

COMPANY NEWS: The latest from Microsoft regarding the CrowdStrike outage that impacted some Windows devices.

This story comes to you fresh off the keyboard of a brand new Microsoft Surface laptop. It's out, it's beautiful, and it's full of smarts.

I looked forward to trying Microsoft's new Copilot+ AI PC to see the goodness and seamlessness of its AI smarts, only to find, well, it's disappointingly dumb on the first try out of the box. Fortunately, with effort, including dealing with a lying AI, you can pull through.

COMPANY NEWS: Pax8, the leading cloud commerce marketplace, today announced it has won the Global 2024 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award. The company was honoured among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.

COMPANY NEWS: DataStax, the AI platform company, today announced major updates to its generative AI development platform that help make retrieval augmented generation (RAG) powered application development 100x faster. DataStax will demo its newly released updates at the RAG++ event in San Francisco with partners including LangChain, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Unstructured, among others.

New Microsoft Ribbon Phish Alert Button (PAB) by KnowBe4 to enhance email security for Outlook users globally

Macquarie Flex brings true hybrid capabilities to Australian businesses revolutionising the handling of critical workloads

COMPANY NEWS: In an Australian first, Macquarie Cloud Services, part of Macquarie Technology Group (ASX: MAQ), has leveraged strategic relationships with Microsoft and Dell Technologies, to launch Macquarie Flex.

The Victoria Racing Club has been hit by ransomware, with the Medusa group claiming credit for gaining access to the organisation's network on 13 June.

AI’s predictive analytics offer significant business opportunity to assess Scope 3 risks, forecast future energy consumption and lower an organisation’s carbon footprint

GUEST RESEARCH: IT infrastructure services provider Kyndryl in collaboration with Microsoft today released the Australian findings of the Global Sustainability Barometer study.