Security News

Microsoft sets up isolated environment for bug hunters to test attacks against Azure
2019-08-06 08:47

Microsoft has some very good news for bug hunters: not only has the company doubled the top bounty reward for vulnerabilities discovered in its Azure cloud computing service, but has also created...

Microsoft Lab Offers $300K For Working Azure Exploits
2019-08-05 16:00

Microsoft says its Azure Security Lab will allow researchers to attack its cloud environment in a customer-safe way.

Microsoft is right, mandatory password changes are obsolete
2019-08-01 05:00

Microsoft has recently come out and said that mandatory password changing is ancient and obsolete. This goes directly against everything we were trained to think for the last couple of decades,...

Microsoft Makes Azure Security Center for IoT Generally Available
2019-07-30 14:59

Microsoft this week announced the general availability of Azure Security Center for Internet of Things (IoT) devices.  read more

Microsoft preps to purge its cloud access security broker of shonky crypto protocols TLS 1.0, 1.1
2019-07-29 22:00

Still not migrated? You have until 8 September Transport Level Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 is to be axed for users of Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS) from 8 September as the company shores up...

Fugue’s SaaS product now supports the Microsoft Azure cloud computing service
2019-07-19 02:30

Fugue, the company delivering autonomous cloud infrastructure security and compliance, announced that its Software as a Service (SaaS) product now supports the Microsoft Azure cloud computing...

Microsoft demos end-to-end voting verification system ElectionGuard, code will be on GitHub
2019-07-18 11:34

'Defending democracy' initiative to resist nation-state attacks Microsoft has demonstrated its ElectionGuard electronic vote system at the Aspen Security Forum under way in Colorado and warned...

Microsoft Reports Hundreds of Election-Related Cyber Probes
2019-07-18 05:59

Microsoft says it has detected more than 740 infiltration attempts by nation-state actors in the past year targeting U.S.-based political parties, campaigns and other democracy-focused...

Microsoft, Google and Apple clouds banned in Germany’s schools
2019-07-17 11:12

Citing privacy issues, Germany just banned its schools from using Microsoft Office 365, Google Docs, and Apple's iWork cloud services.