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Elastic announced an expanded strategic partnership with Microsoft. From directly within the Microsoft Azure portal, customers can now find, deploy, and manage Elasticsearch and accelerate their time to value with Elastic Cloud solutions, including Elastic Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security.
Microsoft has released the first stable version of the native Winget Windows 10 package manager that helps you manage applications directly from the command line. Microsoft first announced the first preview version of its Windows 10 package manager at Microsoft Build 2020 and has developed it as an open-source project on GitHub since then.
In this presentation, Microsoft's John Lambert will talk about how it's more important than ever for defenders and organizations to come together and better share information that can help the entire ecosystem protect against emerging threats. The good news is there are industry frameworks and sharing mechanisms already in place to facilitate actionable threat intelligence and defense collaboration.
Microsoft has addressed some of the annoyances reported by users of the newly released Windows 10 'News and Interests' feature in the latest preview update released for Windows 10 2004, 20H2, and 21H1. Using News and Interests, Windows 10 displays news stories and articles matching a profile of the logged-in users' interests based on their historically read content and various widgets with 'snackable' local forecast, sports, stocks, and traffic information. Microsoft improved the News and Interests hover experience this week by adding an 'Open on hover' option to its taskbar submenu to prevent accidentally opening the News and Interests user interface.
Microsoft has fixed a known Windows 10 issue that would lead to FLAC encoded music files becoming corrupted when changing their title, artist, or other metadata in File Explorer. "The FLAC property handler assumed that all FLAC files started with the 4 byte start code fLaC and did not take into account the ID3 frame at the beginning of the file," Microsoft explains.
Microsoft announced today at the Build 2021 developer conference that support for running Linux GUI apps is now available via Windows Subsystem for Linux. The feature was first released one month ago and it allows Windows 10 users to run Linux applications with a GUI without using a virtual machine.
"You only want to learn the larger patterns in the data, and so what differential privacy is doing is adding some noise to hide those smaller patterns that you didn't want to know anyway," Bird explained. Others reach out to the SmartNoise team on GitHub, which has led to a more formal early adoption programme where Microsoft is helping organisations like Humana and the Educational Results Partnership build differential privacy into research programmes looking at health and education data.
In early March, Microsoft shocked businesses around the world when it issued a warning that Chinese cyber-espionage operators were chaining multiple zero-day exploits to siphon e-mail data from Microsoft Exchange servers around the world. In this exclusive session at SecurityWeek's Threat Intelligence Summit, Josh Grunzweig, Threat Intelligence Analyst at Volexity, the firm credited with discovering the original attack, will detail the original discovery of the Microsoft Exchange zero-day vulnerabilities that were exploited by targeted attackers in early 2021.
The Microsoft Exchange admin portal is currently inaccessible from some browsers after Microsoft forgot to renew the SSL certificate for the website. Starting at 8 AM EST today, Microsoft Exchange admins who attempted to access the admin portal at admin.
Microsoft has released the first Windows 10 build without the Internet Explorer web browser to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. As Microsoft announced on Wednesday, Internet Explorer 11 will be permanently retired from several Windows 10 versions and editions, and replaced with the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge in June 2022.