Microsoft has been heavily pushing Teams and releasing new collaboration features, and the tech giant’s Ignite conference continued that trend, as Microsoft made several announcements impacting Teams and the Microsoft 365 family of products, as well as a partnership with what was once a key competitor in the collaboration space. Office becomes Microsoft 365 The […]
Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference takes place this week, and the company has already announced dozens of new products, improvements and services designed to help organizations be more secure and productive. In total, Microsoft announced more than 100 new products, all of which can be found in the company’s Book of News. Since it’s Cybersecurity Awareness […]
Microsoft has released fixes for 85 vulnerabilities as part of the October 2022 Patch Tuesday, including 15 that are rated critical and one listed as being exploited in the wild. However, the company still has yet to release patches for the two Exchange vulnerabilities that were reported as being actively exploited last week. Admins should […]
As the amount of data being captured, copied and consumed in enterprises grows exponentially, organizations have had their hands full securing it from external attackers. However, organizations must also protect that data from insiders and preventing that data from leaving the organization and falling into the wrong hands. IT and security professionals are most often […]
Microsoft is releasing the ability to manage and protect corporate devices running on Android using Intune as part of Microsoft Endpoint Manager. According to Microsoft, Android devices are now mainstream and Android management is already offered by Endpoint Manager, but not all variations of the core Android Open Source Platform (AOSP) meet Google’s certification requirements […]
In an attempt to help secure the identity of personal uses, Microsoft is releasing a new identity theft monitoring capability in Defender for Individuals to personal and family subscribers of Microsoft 365. According to Microsoft, the identity theft monitoring solution is a partnership with Experian that leverages the credit agency’s identity monitoring technology to detect, […]
Microsoft is introducing the general availability of Linux desktop management in Microsoft Intune, as part of Microsoft Endpoint Manager, to bring support for device registration, endpoint management and secure web access to Microsoft 365 and Azure resources for Linux Ubuntu LTS. The new capabilities come with the October release of Intune, which will allow organizations […]
Microsoft says it is seeing indicators that Exchange Online customers are being targeted by password spray attacks leveraging basic authentication as the company begins to phase out basic auth in Exchange. The company has for three years been urging customers to move away from basic auth, and Microsoft has disabled it in “millions of tenants […]
Microsoft is warning organizations to mitigate two zero-day vulnerabilities in Exchange Server that are being actively exploited in the wild and can result in hands-on-keyboard access and Active Directory reconnaissance and data exfiltration. The vulnerabilities are CVE-2022-41040–a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability–and CVE-2022-41082–a remote code execution bug via Exchange PowerShell. According to Microsoft, CVE-2022-41040 can enable […]
Hybrid and remote work have been widely accepted as the new normal, but leaders and managers are beginning to express concerns about employee productivity while at home, according to new Microsoft research. This comes as executives are also growing increasingly worried about the strong possibility of a recession, the company says in a new Work […]
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