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New York law firm Heidell, Pittoni, Murphy and Bach has agreed to pay $200,000 to settle a data-breach lawsuit related to the now-notorious Hafnium Microsoft Exchange attacks that siphoned sensitive data from victims around the world. New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought the lawsuit against the lawyers, blamed HPMB's poor data security practices for the privacy breach.
Traditional, well-behaved image viewers, including the very tool you just used to crop the file, would ignore the extra data, but deliberately-coded data recovery or snooping apps might not. The low-level details of the bug were different, not least because Google's app was coded in Java and used Java libraries, while Microsoft's apps are written in C++ and use Windows libraries, but the leaky side-effects were identical.
Microsoft has unveiled a faster and redesigned version of its Microsoft Teams communication and collaboration software that has begun rolling out to Windows users today as a preview release. The company describes the new Teams client as being twice as faster and consuming 50% less memory and up to 70% less disk space when compared to the current app.
Microsoft has unveiled a faster and redesigned version of its Microsoft Teams communication and collaboration software that has begun rolling out to Windows users today as a preview release. The company describes the new Teams client as being twice as faster and consuming 50% less memory and up to 70% less disk space when compared to the current app.
Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to address a privacy-defeating flaw in its screenshot editing tool for Windows 10 and Windows 11. "If you take a screenshot of your bank statement, save it to your desktop, and crop out your account number before saving it to the same location, the cropped image could still contain your account number in a hidden format that could be recovered by someone who has access to the complete image file," Microsoft explains.
Microsoft released an emergency security update for the Windows 10 and Windows 11 Snipping tool to fix the Acropalypse privacy vulnerability. With this bug, both the Google Pixel's Markup Tool and the Windows Snipping Tool were found to be leaving the cropped data within the original file.
Microsoft on Friday shared guidance to help customers discover indicators of compromise associated with a recently patched Outlook vulnerability.Tracked as CVE-2023-23397, the critical flaw relates to a case of privilege escalation that could be exploited to steal NT Lan Manager hashes and stage a relay attack without requiring any user interaction.
Microsoft today published a detailed guide aiming to help customers discover signs of compromise via exploitation of a recently patched Outlook zero-day vulnerability. Microsoft also shared guidance on how to block future attacks targeting this vulnerability, urging organizations to install the recently released Outlook security update.
American cybersecurity officials have released an early-warning system to protect Microsoft cloud users. Dubbed the Untitled Goose Tool, CISA said it "Offers novel authentication and data gathering methods for network defenders to use as they interrogate and analyze their Microsoft cloud services."
Network defenders searching for malicious activity in their Microsoft Azure, Azure Active Directory, and Microsoft 365 cloud environments have a new free solution at their disposal: Untitled Goose Tool. As an agency charged with - among other things - helping US-based organizations in the government and private sector protect themselves against cyber attackers, CISA regularly releases free open-source services and tools for defenders to use.