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Microsoft is again promoting its HyperClear Hyper-V hypervisor technology as a potential balm for organizations trying to come to grips with Intel's latest speculative execution side-channel attack disclosures.
05/15/2019
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Microsoft released its May security updates on "update Tuesday," but a patching vortex also opened up as Intel disclosed new processor vulnerabilities.
05/14/2019
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A federal computer security watchdog agency on Monday warned Office 365 users and their technology partners about common Office 365 misconfigurations.
05/13/2019
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A "Critical"-rated vulnerability in SharePoint Server versions that Microsoft issued a patch for back in March is now getting actively targeted, according to some security authorities.
05/10/2019
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Microsoft this week laid out security advice for organizations, which included some best-practice guidelines for IT pros.
05/09/2019
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A recent report suggests that Microsoft's own e-mail security protections have trouble differentiating between real and fraudulent messages from itself.
05/06/2019
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Microsoft announced this week that part of its new threat-hunting service for organizations has reached the "general availability" (GA) commercial release stage.
05/02/2019
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Microsoft announced this week that it will be reorganizing its Office 365 ProPlus privacy controls with an aim toward becoming more "transparent" about the information it collects.
05/01/2019
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced various Office 365 security and compliance improvements, mostly for Microsoft 365 subscribers.
04/30/2019
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Microsoft indicated that its container images hosted on Docker Hub weren't compromised by a security breach that was discovered by Docker last week.
04/29/2019
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Microsoft wants to drop recommending policies that enforce periodic password expirations on users of Windows systems.
04/26/2019
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Kaspersky Lab this week described more about a zero-day Windows vulnerability (CVE-2019-0859) that its researchers recently discovered, and how PowerShell was used by the exploit.
04/16/2019
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Microsoft on Friday sent letters to some of its e-mail users that their accounts may have been accessed by "individuals outside Microsoft" over the past three months.
04/15/2019
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The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team issued an alert this week about the improper storage of session data by virtual private network applications.
04/12/2019
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Microsoft published a notice on Wednesday that System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM) and Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 (FEP) both will fall out of support on July 9, 2019.
04/11/2019
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Microsoft announced the release of its April security patches on Tuesday, addressing 74 unique vulnerabilities.
04/09/2019
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A recently added "tamper protection" feature finally corrects an obvious security gap in Microsoft's anti-malware solution.
04/08/2019
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Microsoft's Azure Active Directory Password Protection feature is now deemed ready for deployment by organizations, having reached "general availability" status, according to Microsoft's announcement on Tuesday.
04/02/2019
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A new survey finds a dangerous gap between organizations' perceptions and actions when it comes to Office 365 compliance and security.
03/29/2019
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Microsoft this week announced release milestones for some of its management, security and compliance tools.
03/29/2019
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Software security firm Kaspersky Lab announced that Asus computer users were targeted last year with malware via Asus' update utility in a so-called "supply-chain attack."
03/25/2019
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Microsoft this week announced a bunch of security product enhancements.
03/22/2019
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Microsoft released security patches on "update Tuesday" to address 64 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), which were typically associated with products like Windows, Office services and Microsoft's browsers.
03/12/2019
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Google on Thursday described two "zero-day" vulnerabilities affecting both the Google Chrome browser and Windows 7 systems that are being actively used in targeted attacks.
03/08/2019
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With Office 365 emerging as a big target for today's hackers, it's important to know how your organization's security measures up.
03/06/2019