Organizations are prioritizing their IT investments in the coming year -- which makes sense, because that's what kept many of them afloat in the previous year-and-a-half.
Organizations using Exchange Server will get a new automated emergency mitigation tool after installing Microsoft's September cumulative updates.
This week brings Exchange Online news regarding Basic Authentication, plus a September cumulative update delay for Exchange Server.
Microsoft recently offered more information about two different security vulnerabilities addressed in last week's "update Tuesday" patch release.
Microsoft's Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) vulnerabilities, disclosed with this week's update Tuesday patch releases, demonstrated yet another hole in Azure security.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced that the company is ditching the password when it comes to logging into consumer-facing Microsoft accounts.
According to a five-year study by California-based security firm Imperva Inc., 46 percent of all global on-premises databases have existing flaws that can be leveraged by outside attackers.
Microsoft has released September security patches, addressing an estimated 66 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs).
Apple issued patches for two vulnerabilities that can permit an attacker to run code on iOS devices, with one vulnerability (CVE-2021-30860) said by researchers to originate from the NSO Group, an Israeli spyware maker.
The Microsoft Security Response Center issued a "coordinated disclosure" notice on Wednesday for users of the Azure Container Instances (ACI) service, promising that "no unauthorized access to customer data" had occurred.
Latest analysis shows how prevalent phishing attempts are -- and how important it is to have proper e-mail reporting and comprehensive e-mail training.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced new PowerShell 5.1 cmdlets for analyzing the scanning performance of the Microsoft Defender Antivirus service.
The Microsoft Security Response Center warned of active attacks leveraging a remote code execution vulnerability in Internet Explorer's Trident engine (MSHTML), per a Tuesday Twitter post.
A top Veeam technologist shares what critical first steps IT must take during a ransomware attack. Above all else: Don't pay the ransom.
Organizations could be more subject to ransomware attacks on weekends and holidays, according to an alert issued this week by the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Microsoft warned thousands of Azure Cosmos DB users last week that their data may have been exposed through a recently discovered security flaw in Jupyter Notebook.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/30/2021
The Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Mac security solution is now starting to get "native" agent support for running on Apple M1 chip-based devices, Microsoft announced this week.
Big tech companies pledged money and efforts following an Aug. 25 Biden administration meeting on U.S. cybersecurity initiatives, as described in this White House announcement.
The Exchange team at Microsoft posted an announcement on Wednesday acknowledging "ProxyShell" threats and urging organizations to keep Exchange Server up to date with the latest cumulative updates and security updates.
Business and government application developers inadvertently exposed a total of 38 million records because of Microsoft's design of its Power Apps application-building service.