Microsoft has announced a major expansion of its Microsoft 365 Bounty Program. The program now covers new Viva products for identifying vulnerabilities, offering rewards up to $27,000 for critical submissions. This update highlights Microsoft’s commitment to improving software security and promoting global collaboration in finding vulnerabilities. The expanded scope introduces …

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has exposed two databases with sensitive user and operational information from its DeepSeek-R1 LLM model. Unsecured ClickHouse instances are believed to have exposed over a million log entries that include user chat histories in plaintext, along with API keys, backend information, and operational metadata. Wiz Research …

Microsoft has added DeepSeek’s R1 AI model to its Azure AI Foundry platform and GitHub. This lets customers easily integrate the R1 model into their AI applications. R1 is gaining attention for being trainable at a much lower cost than top AI models like those from OpenAI. DeepSeek’s R1 model …