In addition to giving the Microsoft Store a facelift in Windows 11, the company is continuing to add utility the software via new online sessions intended to educate small businesses in the field of cyber security. With October being National ... Read more
Microsoft has warned repeatedly that cyber-attacks will rise and become more sophisticated over time, both as a victim and arbiter of protection from said attacks. More than pontificating on the future, Microsoft has been hard at work to mitigate the ... Read more
Microsoft released the September Patch Tuesday updates last week to address the “PrintNightmare” remote code execution vulnerability affecting all versions of Windows, but it looks like these updates come with their own set of issues. The company has acknowledged that ... Read more
Microsoft has warned Azure customers in a vulnerability in its Cosmos DB cloud database software after a security company found that they could access information from "thousands of companies," according to Reuters. The security company, Wiz, found that by exploiting ... Read more
In a meeting at the White House and CEOs from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and others, US President Joe Biden appealed to the tech executives to do more on cybersecurity in the wake of increased ransomware and other attacks, saying that ... Read more
The CEOs of Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon are planning to attend a cybersecurity event at the White House this week to talk with President Joe Biden about rapidly increasing ransomware attacks. Also invited to the meeting are CEOs from Alphabet ... Read more
Rubrik, a data backup company based in Palo Alto, California has announced a new strategic agreement with Microsoft to address the rising threats of ransomware attacks affecting enterprise customers. As part of the partnership, Microsoft has made an equity investment ... Read more
Over the past several weeks, Microsoft has been battling against security vulnerabilities identified in the Windows print spooler service, leaving computers across the world potentially exposed to malicious attacks. In June, a patch for a remote code execution flaw was ... Read more
A new cyberattack campaign targets users of pirated software with malware designed to block access to websites hosting pirated software.
Microsoft has discontinued support for domain fronting via Azure. The cloud computing platform is primarily designed for developing, testing, and running applications. It supports setups ranging from virtual computing to networking and is underpinned by Microsoft’s data centers. The company ... Read more
The Microsoft Security team has been commended for its handling of the latest Microsoft Exchange breach, which affected over 25,000 customers globally. According to Charles Carmakal, the senior vice president at FireEye, the tech giant has done exceptionally well in ... Read more
Microsoft is issuing guidance in the wake of a targeted cyberattack most recently aimed at parts of the US government. Microsoft's issuance is both parts, identifying recent nation-state sanctioned attack techniques as well as giving its customer assurance that as ... Read more
Over the course of 90-days the researchers found 40 exploits, 20 of which were considered "Critical or Important severity security vulnerabilities."
Much has been said about the effects of foreign interference in the 2016 presidential elections, but if anything, cyberattacks from foreign adversaries have increased in the leadup to the 2020 elections. Today, Microsoft, in their On the Issues corporate blog, ... Read more
Microsoft finds that security researchers are a vital component of the cybersecurity ecosystem. These security researchers spend time discovering and reporting security bugs before anyone can use the bugs for nefarious purposes. As detailed in a post on the Microsoft ... Read more
Cybersecurity company CyberArk revealed today that it has worked with Microsoft to fix an account takeover vulnerability in Microsoft Teams based on the use of malicious GIFs.
Microsoft's M12 Venture arm announced yesterday that it was investing in Arkose Labs, a San Francisco-based startup developing a fraud and abuse prevention platform for protecting web and mobile apps.
Apparently, advertising malware is not only hitting Windows users only. As noted in a report by ZDNet, ChromeOS and macOS users are increasing at risk for advertising malware on websites. ZDNet provided advertising malware statistics and data gathered by a ... Read more
Microsoft's Windows Hello Will officially become a FIDO2-certified authenticator service in the next release of Windows 10.
As it turns out, the fact that hackers were able to view the private emails of users of Microsoft’s free Outlook.com service wasn't even the worst of the news. As it turns out, they were also able to steal some cryptocurrencies from multiple victims.
Following a new report revealing that hackers were actually able to read the content of compromised Outlook.com email accounts, Microsoft has been forced to change its stance.