Microsoft was anxious to put generative AI at the heart of its systems. Ask a question about an upcoming meeting, and the company’s Copilot AI system can pull answers from your emails, Teams chats, and files, a potential productivity boon. However, these exact processes can also be abused by hackers. On 08 August 2024, at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, researcher Michael Bargury demonstrated five proof-of-concept ways that Copilot, which runs on its Microsoft 365 apps, such
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Data security continues to cause angst and thus the US House of Representatives has reportedly banned congressional staffers from using Microsoft’s AI coding assistant, Copilot. This comes just weeks after Microsoft announced the official public release of AI Copilot on 14 March 2024.
The ban, implemented by the House’s Chief Administrative Officer Catherine Szpindor, reportedly stems from concerns about potential data leakage. According to Axios, Szpindor’s office believes AI Copilot “poses a
