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This Microsoft zero day is under active attack and there’s no patch

Happy Patch Tuesday: Have some critical SAP vulnerabilities affecting pretty much every internet-facing product whilst you're at it...

Edward Targett July 12, 2023

Microsoft admits “insecure pattern” in Azure AD exposed customers to risk of data loss, account takeover

"The risk is mainly with multi-tenant applications where this misconfiguration could result [in] account and privilege escalation" -- here's what you need to do.

The Stack June 22, 2023

A triple barrage of mystery DDoS attacks knocked Microsoft services including Azure, Intune offline

Back in 2021 Microsoft boasted of shielding a customer from a 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack originating from 70,000 sources. It has not shared such detail on this successful incident that it its services...

Edward Targett June 18, 2023

Chinese state-backed hackers Typhoon Volt targeted US critical infrastructure

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Chinese state-backed “Volt Typhoon” hackers breached US critical infrastructure

The group is intent on developing capabilities and access that “could disrupt critical communications infrastructure between the United States and Asia region during future crises.” Threat vector Fortinet has questions to answer ...

Edward Targett May 24, 2023

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Microsoft Fabric, a new unified data platform, promises magic, but has gaps to fill...

Microsoft has released a unified data platform called Microsoft Fabric: the next step in a journey that started in 2022 with the release of its “Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform”, and an offering that Redmond says will let users get the “maximum value out of a single copy of data without...

Edward Targett May 23, 2023

Microsoft Build brings Copilots in everything including Windows 11

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Microsoft Build brings Copilots in everything including Windows 11

Microsoft’s annual “Build”developer conference is underway and the focus is firmly on AI, not least “CoPilot”, its brand for a growing family of AI assistants – with Redmond also looking to position itself as the go-to hub for third-party developers wanting to build and integrate their own AI capabilities...

Edward Targett May 23, 2023

¡OLÈ! Microsoft patches pre-auth RCE, zero day, warns on BlackLotus bootkit

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Patch Tuesday

¡OLÈ! Microsoft patches pre-auth RCE, zero day, warns on BlackLotus bootkit

Although May Patch Tuesday she be but little, she is fierce: Microsoft has pushed out a modest 38 new security fixes for its monthly fix cycle , but don’t get caught napping: They include fixes for a pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Outlook, CVE-2023-29325, that requires no user...

Edward Targett May 10, 2023

As regulators sniff around Teams, Microsoft boasts 300 million users

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As regulators sniff around Teams, Microsoft boasts 300 million users

European regulators may be gearing up for an antitrust investigation over Microsoft’s Teams bundling with Office software but it was hardly a talking point on Microsoft’s latest earnings call – with Redmond reporting net income of $18.3 billion for its fiscal Q3, up 9%, and Teams itself hitting...

The Stack April 26, 2023

This Microsoft zero day is under active attack and there’s no patch

Microsoft admits “insecure pattern” in Azure AD exposed customers to risk of data loss, account takeover

A triple barrage of mystery DDoS attacks knocked Microsoft services including Azure, Intune offline

Chinese state-backed “Volt Typhoon” hackers breached US critical infrastructure

Microsoft Fabric, a new unified data platform, promises magic, but has gaps to fill...

Microsoft Build brings Copilots in everything including Windows 11

¡OLÈ! Microsoft patches pre-auth RCE, zero day, warns on BlackLotus bootkit

As regulators sniff around Teams, Microsoft boasts 300 million users