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Microsoft on Monday announced a preview of the Microsoft Authenticator companion app for use on the Apple Watch.
08/27/2018
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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.
08/14/2018
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Microsoft is consolidating a number of ports for Azure Stack in a move that should significantly reduce the hybrid cloud platform's attack surface and simplify network integration.
08/13/2018
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Microsoft announced on Monday that its Microsoft Edge browser now supports the Web Authentication spec at the preview stage.
07/30/2018
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Much like it beat a drum around the end-of-life deadline for Windows XP, Microsoft is now starting to warn customers and partners that a popular desktop configuration's time is limited.
07/25/2018
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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.
07/18/2018
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Researchers disclosed a new variant 1-type Spectre attack method earlier this week, but Microsoft's software apparently isn't affected by it.
07/13/2018
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Cryptocurrency is still at the frontier of cybercriminal activity, but the vehicle to exploit it is taking a different form.
07/05/2018
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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.
06/25/2018
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Microsoft is bringing multifactor authentication (MFA) to organizations that manage Azure Active Directory tenancies.
06/25/2018
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Microsoft this week announced the previews of two password security capabilities for organizations using the Azure Active Directory service or Windows Server Active Directory.
06/20/2018
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This week, yet another speculative execution processor vulnerability was uncovered, namely "lazy floating point state save/restore."
06/14/2018
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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.
06/13/2018
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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.
06/07/2018
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced the general availability of Threat Tracker for the Office 365 Threat Intelligence service.
05/31/2018
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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.
05/31/2018
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Security researchers called on users of small office/home office (SOHO) routers and some NAS devices to reset to factory defaults in order to protect themselves against destructive malware dubbed VPNFilter.
05/23/2018
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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.
05/22/2018
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Microsoft this week announced SQL Advanced Threat Protection, which is described as "a new security package" for Azure SQL Database users.
05/18/2018
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Microsoft this week offered a progress report on its Azure confidential computing project, mostly highlighting its partner efforts.
05/10/2018
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Twitter made a costly admission on Thursday afternoon.
05/03/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
What information does Microsoft have on you? The new Diagnostic Data Viewer in the Windows 10 April 2018 Update makes it relatively easy to find out.
04/30/2018
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The new technology from Intel comes as hardware-based security and modern CPU threats like Meltdown and Spectre increasingly make headlines.
04/26/2018