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security: Clarity in complexity: New insights for transparent email security

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-12-10

Microsoft’s new benchmarking report examines how layered email defenses perform in real-world conditions, providing transparent metrics and practical insights to help organizations strengthen email protection and reduce risk.

github: GitHub Enterprise Server 3.19 is now generally available

GitHub

2025-12-10

GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) 3.19 is now generally available. The release focuses on improving deployment efficiency, expanding monitoring capabilities, strengthening code security, and refining policy management with a more intuitive flow.

github: The GitHub MCP Server adds support for tool-specific configuration, and more

GitHub

2025-12-10

GitHub announced that the MCP Server now supports tool-specific configuration so you can customize behavior per tool and reduce context window usage. The feature is exposed via a new X-MCP-Tools header and was listed on the GitHub Blog changelog.

security: Shai-Hulud 2.0: Guidance for detecting, investigating, and defending against the supply chain attack

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-12-09

Shai‑Hulud 2.0 is a large-scale supply chain attack in which adversaries maliciously modified hundreds of public packages to compromise developer environments, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud workloads in order to harvest credentials and configuration secrets. Microsoft published guidance to detect, investigate, and defend against these compromises across development toolchains, build systems, and cloud assets.

dotnet: .NET and .NET Framework December 2025 servicing releases updates

.NET

2025-12-09

A brief recap of the December 2025 servicing updates for both .NET and .NET Framework, posted on the .NET Blog.

dotnet: Implementing Cross-Platform In-App Billing in .NET MAUI Applications

.NET

2025-12-09

Microsoft's .NET Blog introduces a new cross-platform billing sample that demonstrates how to implement in-app purchases in .NET MAUI apps for Android, iOS, Mac Catalyst, and Windows.

security: Changing the physics of cyber defense

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-12-09

The article explains how cyber defense is shifting by applying graph-powered approaches and AI to accelerate threat detection and strengthen basic security hygiene across organizations.

github: npm classic tokens revoked, session-based auth and CLI token management now available

GitHub

2025-12-09

On 2025-12-09 GitHub completed the deprecation of npm classic tokens by revoking them and moving to session-based authentication. At the same time GitHub released CLI token management features so developers can manage authentication tokens from the command line. This change is part of a security hardening effort and requires affected users and automation to re-authenticate and adopt the new session-based flows or updated tokens.

github: Dependabot-based dependency graphs for Go

GitHub

2025-12-09

GitHub announced Dependabot-based dependency graphs for Go projects to provide more complete and accurate transitive dependency trees, as part of continued supply chain security improvements for package ecosystem support.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: FIPS compliant mode for Application Gateway V2 SKUs

Azure Updates

2025-12-09

Azure Application Gateway V2 SKUs are now generally available with a FIPS 140-2 compliant mode, allowing customers to use FIPS-validated cryptographic modules to help meet US government and regulatory cryptography requirements.

dotnet: Microsoft Learn MCP Server Elevates Development

.NET

2025-12-08

Microsoft's Learn MCP server improves the Copilot developer experience by providing practical examples and clear integration steps for Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, the Copilot CLI, and the Copilot Coding Agent.

github: Enterprise teams product limits increased by over 10x

GitHub

2025-12-08

GitHub announced that the Enterprise Teams public preview now supports creating and managing up to 2,500 enterprise teams per enterprise, a more than 10× increase in product limits.