Microsoft has announced its industry for the financial services sector will be generally available Nov. 1. The bundled offering is designed to help financial services organizations hardness the power of the cloud, accelerate their digital products and reduce the costs of running their business. According to the company, the Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services introduces […]
Microsoft has announced a new multiyear commitment to help the insurance industry create cyber insurance products with the support of Microsoft’s security solutions. According to Microsoft, the technology firm is teaming up with insurance partners to offer insurance products that allow customers to safely share security posture information through platforms like Microsoft 365 and the […]
Microsoft says it has discovered another piece of malware used by the alleged Russia-based hacking group responsible for the SolarWinds Orion compromise that creates a post-exploitation backdoor and is used to maintain persistence in a victim’s environment. In a blog post, the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center called this malware FoggyWeb and says it is used […]
Microsoft is introducing a new security feature in Exchange Server designed to protect against security threats that have known mitigations. According to the company, the Emergency Mitigation feature is a built-in version of the Exchange On-premises Mitigation Tool (EOMT) that works with the cloud-based Office Config Service (OCS) to provide protection against known threats. It’s […]
According to cybersecurity companies, media reports and Microsoft itself, threat actors are actively exploiting security flaws in Azure’s Open Management Infrastructure framework that Microsoft disclosed as part of this months’ cumulative security updates. The vulnerabilities are in the Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) framework, which Microsoft calls an open-source Web-Based Enterprise Management implementation for managing Linux […]
Is your team finding it more difficult to collaborate effectively and keep production high when working from home? If you’re finding that collaboration and production is suffering as a result of distributed work environments, then you aren’t alone. Microsoft, of all companies, says employees are collaborating less than they were before the pandemic and they’re […]
IT admins expecting to upgrade to the new version of Windows 11 may want to take this as an opportunity to audit their hardware.
Microsoft is warning of a new zero-day vulnerability in Windows MSHTML that allows attackers to perform remote code execution via a malicious ActiveX control and a Microsoft Office document. Microsoft and CISA issued warnings about the vulnerability this week, with both saying the vulnerability has been exploited in the wild. It has been assigned to […]
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Windows Server 2022, hailing the new version of the operating system as a more secure, hybrid-capable and scalable. The company announced the general availability Wednesday, but Microsoft has been rolling out the latest version of the on-premises system to customers since last month – Aug. 18 to be […]
Microsoft has released additional guidance to mitigate the cloud vulnerability in the Azure Cosmos DB Jupyter Notebook feature, but reaffirms that only a “subset” of customers who had the feature enabled were vulnerable. Further, no customer data was accessed because of this vulnerability, and impacted customers who’s primary read-write keys may have been impacted were […]
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