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  Microsoft's Record July Patch Tuesday Fixes 570 Flaws, Including Two Exploited Zero-Days

  Microsoft's July Patch Tuesday release broke the record for a second straight month, delivering fixes for roughly 570 holes across Windows, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Azure and others.
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  Why Most Backup Success Metrics Are Meaningless

  Traditional backup metrics can show perfect health while failing to reveal whether critical workloads can actually be restored.
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  Microsoft Makes Passkeys the Entra ID Default as Identity Attacks Grow Stealthier

  Microsoft will make passkeys the default authentication method in Entra ID and phase out its native delivery of SMS and voice authentication, a major shift aimed at reducing organizations' dependence on credentials that attackers can intercept or steal.
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  Sysdig Details Autonomous AI Agent Behind Ransomware Attack

  Cloud security firm Sysdig has documented what it says is the first ransomware attack carried out from initial exploitation through encryption by an autonomous AI agent, without a human directing each step after the operation began.
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  Reading a 5.25 Inch Floppy Disk on Modern Hardware

  A GreaseWeazle adapter and specialized software make it possible to recover files from decades-old 5.25-inch floppy disks.