Microsoft Microsoft’s “top notch” China hack post-mortem was "troubling" speculation "The loss of a signing key is a serious problem, but the loss of a signing key through unknown means is far more significant... Microsoft’s customers did not have essential facts needed to make their own risk assessments."
Microsoft Microsoft roasted over “cascade of security failures” – authentication system utterly broken "A corporate culture that deprioritized both enterprise security investments and rigorous risk management."
Microsoft Microsoft open-sources unique “Garnet” cache-store; a Redis rival? Garnet’s server can talk to any existing Redis client owing to its use of the RESP protocol. Its storage layer is a customised fork of Microsoft’s own open source FASTER project
Microsoft EDPS: European Commission breached data infringement rules over Microsoft 365 use EU watchdog says the institution failed to take appropriate data-transfer safeguards while using Microsoft 365
Microsoft Featured Microsoft customers are being targeted after Redmond's source code, secrets were stolen A raid by Russian hackers penetrated deeper than first thought: "Some of these secrets were shared between customers and Microsoft..."
News Does Microsoft's Mistral deal take wind out of EU's sails on AI regulation? Sometimes one AI player just isn't enough
AI Microsoft plans to rain billions on AI in Spain AI-berian investent follows a $3.44 billion boost to Germany, and a $3.2 billion training investment in the UK.
Members only Patch Tuesday February’s Patch Tuesday brings exploited zero days, Exchange Server headaches As a major Exchange Service update lands, Redmond admits "it is possible that some functionality may break after installing CU14..."
AI AI sends cloud earnings soaring, brings customers rushing for Google, Microsoft Nadella: "We now have 53,000 Azure AI customers – over one-third are new to Azure over the past 12 months"
Microsoft How Russian spooks hacked Microsoft, the gap in its “morally indefensible” response, and what CISOs can learn from the attack Expect to start hearing more about MS Graph...
News US regulators investigate who should investigate Microsoft/OpenAI If only there was a chatbot they could ask...
Microsoft Russian group hacks emails of Microsoft’s “senior leadership” and cybersecurity staff "We will act immediately to apply our current security standards to Microsoft-owned legacy systems and internal business processes..."
AI Microsoft open-sources “TaskWeaver” AI framework Stateful. A Web UI. Customisable plugins. Six LLMs supported. Nice work, Microsoft.
Patch Tuesday Patch Tuesday brings lots of chaff, a little buggy wheat too. Some CVE highlights to review. One vulnerability bears a striking resemblance to an 0day that was actively exploited in the wild in November 2023.
Windows 11 Windows 10 end of life could kill 240 million PCs Microsoft's decision to switch to a new version of Windows could create an epic wave of e-waste as some 240 million PCs stand to lose support according to industry analysts
Microsoft Microsoft won't get back to mixed reality Microsoft has dropped support for its augmented reality system, signaling a major shift for the company and its vision of the future
CISO Microsoft appoints a new Global CISO amid security leadership shakeup "A storied career in high-scale/high-security, demanding environments"
Microsoft 20,000+ EOL Exchange Servers are still sitting there and sucking it up Attacks on Exchange Server Attacks in 2022 were so rife that threat groups were observed cleaning up .aspx and .bat files to remove other attackers
OpenAI Sam Altman joins Microsoft as Nadella pounces - and OpenAI appoints former Twitch CEO "We’ve learned a lot over the years about how to give founders and innovators space to build independent identities and cultures within Microsoft"
OpenAI OpenAI abruptly fires CEO Sam Altman -- days after Microsoft briefly blocked access to ChatGPT over "security and data" concerns Altman was "not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.”
Microsoft Microsoft unveils “the last puzzle piece” – its own semiconductors Big claims by Satya Nadella, big news for the industry, but no benchmarks or hard specifications yet.
Microsoft Microsoft pledges a dramatic software security overhaul, as Amazon veteran shakes the tree Biggest overhaul of Redmond's security in 20 years sees promises of "code analysis [of] 100% of commercial product”, cryptographic keys to be kept in a hardened Azure HSM, more.
ransomware English-speaking ransomware group expanding ops, deploying diverse tools, threats Both blunt and more advanced social engineering approaches used for initial access; the group also has sophisticated hands-on-keyboards capabilities and a diverse toolset.
Microsoft Microsoft earnings: Five big takeaways Copilots are everywhere as part of Microsoft's "platform transition" in the new world of AI.
AI Alphabet, Microsoft earnings show AI rewriting cloud businesses AI, says Microsoft, is "redefining our role in business applications” with partners adding Copilots as a “process transformation layer" on top of existing systems.