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Informatica announced it will make its Intelligent Data Management Cloud, an end-to-end AI-powered data management platform, available on Microsoft Azure Germany in response to cloud customer growth across Europe. With the new IDMC pod on Azure Germany, customers now have additional choice of data location and the ability to innovate with their data to drive the business forward.
NICE announced, as part of its collaboration with Microsoft, that it is extending its certified Capture and Archiving Technology for Teams to law enforcement and criminal justice agencies to support their adoption of Teams for improved collaboration, flexible working and virtual hearings. Using the NICE Capture and Archiving solution for Teams, police departments, prosecutors' offices and courts can now capture and archive all interactions on the Teams platform, including voice, video, chat, and screen and document sharing, for the preservation of evidence and future review.
Microsoft today released updates to patch at least 116 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software. Another 103 of the security holes patched this month were flagged as "Important," which Microsoft assigns to vulnerabilities "Whose exploitation could result in compromise of the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of user data, or of the integrity or availability of processing resources."
Microsoft tackles 12 critical bugs, part of its July 2021 Patch Tuesday roundup, capping a 'PrintNightmare' month of headaches for system admins. Three bugs under active exploit were squashed by Microsoft Tuesday, part of its July security roundup of fixes for Windows, Microsoft Office, SharePoint Server and Exchange Server.
Microsoft has addressed a security feature bypass vulnerability in the Windows Hello authentication biometrics-based tech, letting threat actors spoof a target's identity and trick the face recognition mechanism into giving them access to the system. As discovered by CyberArk Labs security researchers, attackers can create custom USB devices that Windows Hello will work with to completely circumvent Windows Hello's facial recognition mechanism using a single valid IR frame of the target.
Microsoft has fixed 117 CVEs, 4 of which are actively exploited. "A pair of Windows kernel privilege elevation flaws should also be high on the patch list as they are being actively exploited. These are exactly the type of vulnerabilities in the ransomware attack toolkit, allowing threat actors to boost their user level from user to admin, for greater control over the environment. Admins should keep an eye on existing and new accounts for suspicious activity."
Microsoft's embattled security response unit is urging Windows fleet administrators to prioritize fixes for three documented vulns that have already been exploited in live malware attacks. In all, Microsoft documented 117 vulnerabilities in the Windows ecosystem, some dangerous enough to expose users to remote code execution attacks.
Today is Microsoft's July 2021 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for nine zero-day vulnerabilities and a total of 117 flaws, so Windows admins will be pulling their hair out as they scramble to get devices patched and secured. Microsoft has fixed 117 vulnerabilities with today's update, with 13 classified as Critical, 1 Moderate, and 103 as Important.
Microsoft has loosened the purse strings once again with a substantial purchase in the form of security outfit RiskIQ. While the Windows behemoth did not disclose the grubby details, reports pegged the deal as being worth around half a billion dollars. San Francisco-based RiskIQ is all about using security intelligence to protect the attack surface of an enterprise.
The space community is growing rapidly and Microsoft's Space team is developing capabilities and services to meet its needs for extended connectivity across the world, simulated digital space environments, and ways for dealing with the huge amount of data generated from satellites. Stephen Kitay - the Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy and now Senior Director at Microsoft Azure Space - shared with Help Net Security how the company is helping drive innovation both on the ground and in orbit.