Security News

The industry wide use of Remote Desktop Protocol makes it a tempting target for hackers, says a new report from threat detection company Vectra.

Microsoft this week announced the general availability of Azure Sentinel, a cloud-based security information and event management (SIEM) platform aimed at identifying and blocking threats. read more

Microsoft has rushed to patch two flaws affecting IE versions 9 to 11, one of which the company says is being exploited in real attacks.

Microsoft has unexpectedly released out-of-band security updates to fix vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Defender. The IE zero-day bug is deemed “critical”, as it’s being...

It's not a Patch Tuesday, but Microsoft is rolling out emergency out-of-band security patches for two new vulnerabilities, one of which is a critical Internet Explorer zero-day that cyber...

Microsoft on Monday released patches for two vulnerabilities, including an Internet Explorer zero-day and a denial-of-service (DoS) flaw affecting Microsoft Defender. read more

Microsoft has issued a patch for an Internet Explorer remote code execution flaw that is being actively exploited in the wild.

Microsoft will continue to provide some Windows 7 machines with security updates beyond the January 2020 end-of-support date, and voting systems are among them, the company has announced. read more

Microsoft broke its built-in antivirus utility, thanks to a patch for a different issue.

Microsoft has rushed to fix a bug that prevented users from running a quick scan or a full system scan with Windows Defender. Many users reported this week that after they installed the latest...