Microsoft It’s no joke. Microsoft and IBM have joined forces to open-source the 1988 operating system MS-DOS 4.0 under the MIT License. Why? Well, why not? As Scott Hanselman, Microsoft’s VP of the developer community, and Jeff Wilcox, head of Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office, recount in Microsoft’s Open Source Blog, “a young English researcher […]
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella came on stage for OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s keynote to talk about the future of their partnership. Tiernan Ray The US has enlisted the help of some of the most prominent tech CEOs to help the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) safely deploy AI across critical infrastructure. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, […]
The hackers, identified as UAT4356 by Cisco Talos and STORM-1849 by Microsoft, began infiltrating vulnerable edge devices in early November 2023 in a cyber-espionage campaign tracked as ArcaneDoor.
Researchers at US-Israeli infosec outfit SafeBreach recently discussed flaws in Microsoft and Kaspersky endpoint security products that can potentially allow the remote deletion of files.
Microsoft was impersonated in 38% of all brand phishing attacks in Q1 2024, according to new data from Check Point. This is an increase on the proportion of brand phishing attempts impersonating the tech giant compared to Q4 2023, when it made up 33% of cases. Google was the second most impersonated brand in Q1 […]
Microsoft fixed two zero-day bugs exploited in malware attacks Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2024 Microsoft addressed two zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-29988 and CVE-2024-26234) actively exploited by threat actors to deliver malware Microsoft addressed two zero-day vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2024-29988 and CVE-2024-26234, that threat actors are exploiting to deliver malware. Microsoft Patches Tuesday security updates for April […]
Microsoft has released security updates for the month of April 2024 to remediate a record 149 flaws, two of which have come under active exploitation in the wild. Of the 149 flaws, three are rated Critical, 142 are rated Important, three are rated Moderate, and one is rated Low in severity. The update is aside […]
Mar 27, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / API Security A now-patched security flaw in the Microsoft Edge web browser could have been abused to install arbitrary extensions on users’ systems and carry out malicious actions. “This flaw could have allowed an attacker to exploit a private API, initially intended for marketing purposes, to covertly install additional browser extensions […]
Mar 25, 2024The Hacker NewsData Breach / Password Security In January 2024, Microsoft discovered they’d been the victim of a hack orchestrated by Russian-state hackers Midnight Blizzard (sometimes known as Nobelium). The concerning detail about this case is how easy it was to breach the software giant. It wasn’t a highly technical hack that exploited […]