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A bipartisan senate committee wants answers after last week's massive DDoS attack, as others fear it's a precursor of a more sustained attack.
10/28/2016
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Experts are warning that the "historic' attack on DNS provider Dyn could be just a warning of larger and more sustained attacks.
10/24/2016
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News
Microsoft this week announced a new Managed Solutions Gallery sandbox security capability for its SharePoint 2010-, 2013- and 2016-branded server products.
10/21/2016
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The newly formed company will offer an integrated endpoint security platform tying together the collective offerings from Dell, Mozy, RSA and VMware AirWatch.
10/19/2016
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In-Depth
The company showcased the latest Windows Server improvements in security, cost savings and cloud-based app management.
10/18/2016
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Security researchers at Microsoft have released a PowerShell script that aims at stopping attackers from pulling off reconnaissance in a compromised network.
10/18/2016
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Security and patch management software vendor Shavlik offered its views about this week's Patch Tuesday release event, which will bring a world of changes for busy IT pros.
10/10/2016
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Microsoft announced a couple of "general availability" milestones for two Azure Active Directory products this week.
10/05/2016
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A Reuters story reported that Yahoo had cooperated last year with U.S. intelligence officials to scan all incoming Yahoo e-mail traffic.
10/04/2016
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Microsoft plans to increase its Azure Active Directory certificate update pace, with the next rollover happening on Oct. 10.
10/04/2016
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Microsoft's biggest security announcement this week during its Ignite event for IT pros may have concerned Edge, the company's consumer-oriented Web browser.
09/28/2016
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Yahoo's network has been hacked, and the information from "at least 500 million user accounts" was stolen.
09/22/2016
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In-Depth
New features such as the Antimalware Scan Interface, Virtualization-Based Security and threat analytics are making Windows much more difficult to exploit, but hackers and researchers demonstrate it's still not impossible.
09/20/2016
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Microsoft is appealing to organizations to stop using Server Message Block (SMB) version 1.
09/19/2016
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Microsoft announced this week that it's planning to initiate a new limited-time blocking scheme for out-of-date Adobe Flash ActiveX used in its Internet Explorer 11 browser.
09/16/2016
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Intel's plan to divest the McAfee Security business aims to let the CPU giant focus on its core business and emerging technologies, but company will confront a competitive landscape and a founder challenge.
09/09/2016
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Microsoft plans to commercially offer its Azure Active Directory Identity Protection service and its Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management service, starting on Sept. 15.
09/08/2016
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Microsoft late last week announced that its cloud-based security solution, Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) version 1.7, is now available.
09/06/2016
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft's latest Windows 10 update makes it possible to interact with a system when locked. This can have both security advantages and disadvantages.
08/24/2016
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Microsoft has improved its preview of the Azure Active Directory Identity Protection service for federated tenants and also expanded the preview to Europe.
08/22/2016
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Cisco this week acknowledged that some of its firewall appliance products are being targeted by purportedly leaked U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) hacking tools.
08/19/2016
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There were no actual software keys involved when anonymous researchers claimed that Microsoft had leaked so-called "golden keys" to the Windows secure boot protection scheme, according to an industry veteran.
08/17/2016
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Managed security monitoring, threat detection and remediation service for Microsoft Azure and dedicated Hyper-V environments is on pace to roll out next month from Rackspace.
08/17/2016
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Anonymous security researchers are claiming that Microsoft has compromised the Windows "secure boot" protection scheme.
08/11/2016
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The ability to exchange encrypted data computed in the cloud could be coming soon, according to Microsoft researchers.
08/10/2016