On April 13th, 2021 with 23 comments
April showers bring hours of patches as Microsoft delivers its Patch Tuesday fun-fest consisting of over a hundred CVEs, including four Exchange Server...
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On April 6th, 2021 with 82 comments
Microsoft is starting to submerge its servers in liquid to improve their performance and energy efficiency. A rack of servers is now being used for production...
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On March 28th, 2021 with 47 comments
Security researcher Brian Krebs wants you to know... "New data suggests someone has compromised more than 21,000 Microsoft Exchange Server email systems...
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On March 22nd, 2021 with 110 comments
"A new study from Microsoft, released Monday, found that among the more than 31,000 workers it surveyed, 73% hoped remote work options would continue when the...
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On March 20th, 2021 with 19 comments
"Microsoft has implemented an automatic mitigation tool within Defender Antivirus to tackle critical vulnerabilities in Exchange Server," reports ZDNet:
On...
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On March 15th, 2021 with 36 comments
Thelasko writes: Microsoft is reporting an outage of Office 365, including Microsoft Teams. On its status page, Microsoft adds: Users may be unable to access...
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On March 13th, 2021 with 43 comments
Attacks that leverage Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities "have escalated," warns CNN. They cite a senior White House official saying the window for updating...
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On March 12th, 2021 with 16 comments
Microsoft is investigating whether a world-wide cyberattack on tens of thousands of its corporate customers may be linked to a leak of information by the...
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On March 10th, 2021 with 14 comments
As many as 60,000 computer systems in Germany were exposed to a flaw that allows unauthorized users to access systems in Microsoft's email software, the head...
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On March 5th, 2021 with 51 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Krebs On Security: At least 30,000 organizations across the United States -- including a significant number of small...
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On March 3rd, 2021 with 122 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: The U.S. has issued an emergency warning after Microsoft said it caught China hacking into its mail and...
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On March 3rd, 2021 with 12 comments
Microsoft's newest Garage app, the company's brand for more experimental apps, is Group Transcribe, which lets groups of people capture real-time collective...
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On February 22nd, 2021 with 117 comments
Microsoft is planning to add text predictions to Word in March. From a report: The new feature will work similarly to Google Docs' Smart Compose option, using...
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On February 19th, 2021 with 36 comments
Microsoft's security team said today it has formally completed its investigation into its SolarWinds-related breach and found no evidence that hackers abused...
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On February 18th, 2021 with 165 comments
In a company blog post Thursday, Microsoft released more details about the new, flat-price version of its Office productivity software coming later this year....
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On February 3rd, 2021 with 56 comments
Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), the commercial version of the ubiquitous Defender antivirus and Microsoft's top enterprise security...
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On December 31st, 2020 with 47 comments
The hackers who carried out a sophisticated cyberattack on government agencies in the US and private companies were able to access Microsoft's source code, the...
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On December 22nd, 2020 with 28 comments
A group made up of 19 security firms, tech companies, and non-profits, headlined by big names such as Microsoft and McAfee, have announced on Monday plans to...
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On December 20th, 2020 with 61 comments
Reuters reports:
A second hacking group, different from the suspected Russian team now associated with the major SolarWinds data breach, also targeted the...
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On December 20th, 2020 with 29 comments
More than three million internet users are believed to have installed 15 Chrome, and 13 Edge extensions that contain malicious code, reports ZDNet, citing an...
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On December 18th, 2020 with 185 comments
Usama Jawad writes via Neowin: has been a proponent of passwordless technology for quite some time, saying that it wants traditional and unsafe passwords to...
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On December 18th, 2020 with 87 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Of the 18,000 organizations that downloaded a backdoored version of software from SolarWinds, the tiniest of slivers --...
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On December 17th, 2020 with 100 comments
The U.S. nuclear weapons agency and at least three states were hacked as part of a suspected Russian cyber attack that struck a number of federal government...
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On December 16th, 2020 with 17 comments
As many as 3 million people have been infected by Chrome and Edge browser extensions that steal personal data and redirect users to ad or phishing sites, a...
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On December 15th, 2020 with 18 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Microsoft and a coalition of tech companies have intervened today to seize and sinkhole a domain that played a...
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On December 3rd, 2020 with 107 comments
An Amazon Web Services (AWS) virtualization engineer has shown what Windows 10 on Arm could be like if Microsoft licensed its Arm-based OS to the public rather...
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On December 2nd, 2020 with 30 comments
Microsoft has started testing smaller feature updates for Windows 10 in the form of a Windows Feature Experience Pack. The branding appeared inside Windows 10...
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On November 17th, 2020 with 143 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: For the past two years, some of the world's biggest chip makers have battled a series of hardware flaws, like Meltdown and...
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On November 12th, 2020 with 164 comments
Microsoft is urging users to abandon telephone-based multi-factor authentication (MFA) solutions like one-time codes sent via SMS and voice calls and instead...
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On October 28th, 2020 with 91 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft has announced that it is ending the ability to cross-sign drivers, effective 1 July 2021. This will effectively...
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