Microsoft's September security updates, released on Tuesday, included a fix for a zero-day local privilege escalation flaw that was disclosed with lots of drama last month.
A relatively new type of phishing attack is targeting Office 365 users while completely circumventing all of the usual security defenses.
Microsoft's Project VAST is now a supported product that's offered to Microsoft Premier customers, Microsoft announced last week.
Microsoft is touting software-defined networking security capabilities in the coming Windows Server 2019 product.
A zero-day flaw was disclosed on Monday regarding the Windows Task Scheduler in 64-bit Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 systems for which there are no known patches or specific workarounds.
Microsoft on Monday announced a preview of the Microsoft Authenticator companion app for use on the Apple Watch.
Intel, Microsoft and Red Hat issued security advisories on Tuesday for yet another speculative execution side-channel attack method, this time going by the "L1 Terminal Fault" name.
Microsoft announced on Monday that its Microsoft Edge browser now supports the Web Authentication spec at the preview stage.
Microsoft's July 10 "update Tuesday" patches negatively affected organizations using Lync Server 2013, Skype for Business Server 2015 and Exchange Server, Microsoft admitted this week.
Researchers disclosed a new variant 1-type Spectre attack method earlier this week, but Microsoft's software apparently isn't affected by it.
Microsoft earlier this month issued an advisory for the "lazy floating point state restore" security problem (CVE-2018-3665) that potentially could affect users of Windows and Intel Core processors.
Microsoft is bringing multifactor authentication (MFA) to organizations that manage Azure Active Directory tenancies.
Microsoft this week announced the previews of two password security capabilities for organizations using the Azure Active Directory service or Windows Server Active Directory.
This week, yet another speculative execution processor vulnerability was uncovered, namely "lazy floating point state save/restore."
Microsoft MVP Orin Thomas lays out the most common security pitfalls IT administrators face, and how everything from the cloud to company management can make them worse.
A new study released this week by IT security company BeyondTrust polled opinions about emerging technologies and cloud use, but it also found that traditional security concerns were top of mind for organizations.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the general availability of Threat Tracker for the Office 365 Threat Intelligence service.
The Microsoft Cloud App Security service now can detect applications that fall out of compliance with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy law, Microsoft announced this week.
Intel Corp. and Microsoft on Monday disclosed two additional speculative execution side-channel attack methods, potentially affecting the security of most processors in computers of all types.
Microsoft this week announced SQL Advanced Threat Protection, which is described as "a new security package" for Azure SQL Database users.