Security News

Microsoft Teams hit by second outage in three days
2024-01-29 15:13

Microsoft is investigating a second outage affecting Microsoft Teams users across North and South America in the last three days. "We're investigating an issue in which users may be unable to access Microsoft Teams or features within North America, Canada, and Brazil," Microsoft said via the company's official Microsoft 365 status account on X. Teams users affected by these ongoing issues can find more information in an incident report tagged as TM710900 in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays
2024-01-26 17:49

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing and widespread outage impacting the users of its Teams communication platform and causing connectivity issues, login problems, and message delays."We've identified a networking issue impacting a portion of the Teams service and we're performing a failover to remediate impact. Additional information can be found under TM710344 in the admin center," tweeted the official Microsoft account for updates on Microsoft365 service incidents.

IT teams unable to deliver data fast enough to match the speed of business
2024-01-17 04:00

The majority of Ops professionals feel that they are prohibited from accessing the data they need to make quick business decisions, which can lead to bad practices and impact the organization's overall data-driven decision-making capabilities. "IT is challenged to keep up with increasing demand for timely data access, while also ensuring the security and governance of that data," said Amit Sharma, CData CEO. "Flexible, secure data connectivity solutions ease the burden on IT and provide employees with the data they need to make impactful decisions for their business."

WhatsApp, Slack, Teams, and other messaging platforms face constant security risks
2023-12-12 04:00

42% of businesses report employees with BYOD devices in business settings that use tools like WhatsApp have led to new security incidents, according to SafeGuard Cyber. Messaging platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, and Teams face constant threats, emphasizing the need for robust protection.

Alert fatigue puts pressure on security and development teams
2023-12-08 05:00

The research found that AppSec chaos reigns, with 78% of CISOs responding that today's AppSec attack surfaces are unmanageable and 90% of responders confirmed relationships between their security and development teams need to improve. 85% of CISOs acknowledge dev teams suffer from vulnerability noise and alert fatigue, which strains the relationship between security and dev teams.

PentestPad: Platform for Pentest Teams
2023-10-31 11:21

In the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape, the game-changers are those who adapt and innovate swiftly. Pen test solutions not only supercharge productivity but also provide a crucial layer of...

The primary pain points for SOC teams
2023-10-24 03:30

Nine out of 10 security teams are automating at least some of their work, and 93% of respondents believe that more automation would improve their work-life balance. According to the research, overall job satisfaction in the SOC remains high - security teams love the work they do.

Microsoft releases new, faster Teams app for Windows and Mac PCs
2023-10-05 16:00

A new, redesigned, and faster Microsoft Teams application is generally available for all Windows and macOS users starting today. As revealed when the new Teams was made available as a preview release in March, the new client will launch three times faster, enabling users to switch between chats and channels up to 1.7 times faster than the Classic Teams app.

Microsoft Edge, Teams get fixes for zero-days in open-source libraries
2023-10-03 14:54

Microsoft released emergency security updates for Edge, Teams, and Skype to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities in open-source libraries used by the three products. The libwebp library is used by a large number of projects for encoding and decoding images in the WebP format, including modern web browsers like Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Opera, and the native Android web browsers, as well as popular apps like 1Password and Signal.

CISO’s compass: Mastering tech, inspiring teams, and confronting risk
2023-10-03 04:30

In this Help Net Security interview, Okey Obudulu, CISO at Skillsoft, talks about the increasing complexity of the CISO role and challenges they face. With the increasing complexity of the CISO role, what are the top three challenges you believe they face, and how can they best address these?