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Microsoft Lists the Windows 10 Group Policies to Avoid Microsoft released a list of twenty-five group policies that admins should not use in Windows 10 and Windows 11 as they do not provide optimal behavior or cause unexpected results. Since Windows 10, version 1511, was released in November 2015, Microsoft Read more…

Microsoft Fixes Outlook Search Issues for Windows 10 Users Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing search issues for Outlook users after installing Windows 10 security updates released since November 2021. As the company explained, searches on the Outlook desktop app might fail and recent emails might not appear in search results if they’re stored locally Read more…

Microsoft: SolarWinds Fixes Serv-U Bug Exploited for Log4j Attacks SolarWinds has patched a new Serv-U vulnerability discovered by Microsoft that threat actors attempted to use to propagate Log4j attacks to internal LDAP servers. Serv-U can be configured to authenticate users against an internal LDAP server, such as a Windows domain controller Read more…

Microsoft Leak: Third-party Widgets Coming Soon to Windows 11 A Microsoft developer document has leaked the company’s plans for third-party widgets coming soon to the Windows 11 Widgets feature. In June 2021, Microsoft released their new News and Interests feature to all supported Windows 10 builds. This feature opens a small panel Read more…

Microsoft: Edge Will Mitigate ‘unforeseen active’ Zero Day Bugs Microsoft Edge has added a new feature to the Beta channel that will mitigate future in-the-wild exploitation of unknown zero-day vulnerabilities. The new capability is part of a new browsing mode designed to focus on the Microsoft Edge’s security while navigating Read more…

Microsoft: Fake Ransomware Targets Ukraine in Data-wiping Attacks Microsoft is warning of destructive data-wiping malware disguised as ransomware being used in attacks against multiple organizations in Ukraine. Starting January 13th, Microsoft detected the new attacks that combined a destructive MBRLocker with a data-corrupting malware used to destroy the victim’s data Read more…

Microsoft Brings Back January 2022 Windows Server Updates The January 2022 Windows Server cumulative updates are once again available via Windows Update after being pulled yesterday without an official reason from Microsoft. On Tuesday, Microsoft released the January 2022 Patch Tuesday cumulative updates, with the KB5009624 update for Windows Server 2012 R2, KB5009557 for Read more…

Microsoft Pulls New Windows Server Updates Due to Critical Bugs Microsoft has pulled the January Windows Server cumulative updates after critical bugs caused domain controllers to reboot, Hyper-V to not work, and ReFS volume systems to become unavailable. Tuesday, Microsoft released the January 2022 Patch Tuesday updates for Windows Server that includes Read more…

Microsoft Defender Weakness lets Hackers Bypass Malware Detection Threat actors can take advantage of a weakness that affects Microsoft Defender antivirus on Windows to learn locations excluded from scanning and plant malware there. The issue has persisted for at least eight years, according to some users, and affects Windows 10 Read more…

Microsoft Adds MacOS-like Hardware Indicators to Windows 11 Microsoft is now rolling out redesigned hardware indicator flyouts (uncannily similar to macOS and iOS ones) that align with Windows 11’s design to all Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. The new design was something customers had been asking for a long time. However, Read more…