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Microsoft's new Windows 11 Recall is a privacy nightmare
2024-05-22 16:02

Microsoft's announcement of the new AI-powered Windows 11 Recall feature has sparked a lot of concern, with many thinking that it has created massive privacy risks and a new attack vector that threat actors can exploit to steal data. While it's currently only available on Copilot+ PCs running Snapdragon X ARM processors, Microsoft says they are working with Intel and AMD to bring the feature to all Windows 11 devices.

Google takes shots at Microsoft for shoddy security record with enterprise apps
2024-05-20 17:47

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Microsoft to start enforcing Azure multi-factor authentication in July
2024-05-17 18:53

Starting in July, Microsoft will begin gradually enforcing multi-factor authentication for all users signing into Azure to administer resources. "Service principals, managed identities, workload identities, and similar token-based accounts used for automation are excluded. Microsoft is still gathering customer input for certain scenarios such as break-glass accounts and other special recovery processes," explained Azure product manager Naj Shahid.

Crims abusing Microsoft Quick Assist to deploy Black Basta ransomware
2024-05-16 23:30

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Microsoft shares temp fix for Outlook encrypted email reply issues
2024-05-16 17:28

Microsoft has shared a temporary fix for a known issue preventing Microsoft 365 customers from replying to encrypted emails using the Outlook Desktop client. Affected customers will receive error messages stating, "Microsoft Outlook was not able to create a message with restricted permission" when trying to reply to messages using Microsoft encryption.

Microsoft: Windows Server 2019 updates fail with 0x800f0982 errors
2024-05-16 14:25

Microsoft has acknowledged a new known issue causing this month's KB5037765 security update for Windows Server 2019 to fail to install with 0x800f0982 errors. This confirmation comes after many Windows admins reported seeing install failures when trying to deploy cumulative updates released during the May 2024 Patch Tuesday on Windows Server 2019 systems.

Cybercriminals Exploiting Microsoft’s Quick Assist Feature in Ransomware Attacks
2024-05-16 03:16

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said it has observed a threat it tracks under the name Storm-1811 abusing the client management tool Quick Assist to target users in social engineering...

It's Time to Master the Lift & Shift: Migrating from VMware vSphere to Microsoft Azure
2024-05-15 10:55

While cloud adoption has been top of mind for many IT professionals for nearly a decade, it’s only in recent months, with industry changes and announcements from key players, that many recognize...

Microsoft Patches 61 Flaws, Including Two Actively Exploited Zero-Days
2024-05-15 07:17

Microsoft has addressed a total of 61 new security flaws in its software as part of its Patch Tuesday updates for May 2024, including two zero-days which have been actively exploited in the wild....

Microsoft fixes a bug abused in QakBot attacks plus a second under exploit
2024-05-14 22:15

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