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Microsoft is Force Installing PC Health Check in Windows 10 Microsoft has begun force installing the PC Health Check application on Windows 10 devices using a new KB5005463 update. PC Health Check is a new diagnostics tool created by Microsoft and released in conjunction with Windows 11 that provides various Read more…

Microsoft Defender ATP Adds Live Response For Linux and MacOS Microsoft has announced the addition of new live macOS and Linux response capabilities to Defender for Endpoint, the enterprise version of Redmond’s Windows 10 Defender antivirus. The new capabilities are now available in public preview in the enterprise endpoint security Read more…

It’s Windows XP’s 20th Birthday and Way Too Many Still Use It ​Today is the 20th anniversary of Windows XP, and although the operating system reached the end of support in 2014, way too many people continue to use the insecure version of Windows. Windows XP was released on October Read more…

Microsoft 365 Will Get Support For Custom ARC Configurations Microsoft is working on adding custom Authenticated Received Chain (ARC) configuration support to Microsoft Defender for Office 365. ARC is an authentication mechanism that provides an authenticated “chain of custody” for messages that allows all intermediaries handling an email between the originating Read more…

Microsoft: WizardUpdate Mac Malware Adds New Evasion Tactics Microsoft says it found new variants of macOS malware known as WizardUpdate (also tracked as UpdateAgent or Vigram), updated to use new evasion and persistence tactics. As Microsoft security experts found, the latest variant — spotted earlier this month — is likely Read more…

Microsoft Teams Adds End-to-end Encryption For One-to-one Calls Microsoft has announced the public preview roll-out of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) support for one-to-one Microsoft Teams calls. While Teams already encrypts data in transit and at rest, it also allows IT administrators to set up automatic recording and transcription of voice calls. Read more…

Microsoft Is Releasing Windows 10 21H2 in November Microsoft is preparing Windows 10 21H2, the next Windows 10 version, for a November 2021 release and is now rolling it out to all Windows Insiders in the Release Preview Channel. The Windows 10 21H2 feature update is offered as an optional Read more…

Microsoft Now Defends Nonprofits Against Nation-state Attacks Microsoft announced today a new security program for nonprofits to provide them with protection against nation-state attacks that have been increasingly targeting them in recent years. The company launched the program in response to the booming cybercrime industry impacting all industry sectors worldwide Read more…

Microsoft 365 Will Get Enhanced Insider Risk Management Tools Microsoft is updating Microsoft 365 to allow admins to better manage insider security threats in their environments with improvements to risky activity detection and visibility. Insider Risk Management enables Microsoft 365 cloud services platform customers to detect, investigate, and remediate insider security threats within Read more…

Microsoft Issues Advisory For Surface Pro 3 TPM Bypass Vulnerability Microsoft has published an advisory regarding a security feature bypass vulnerability impacting Surface Pro 3 tablets which could allow threat actors to introduce malicious devices within enterprise environments. The security flaw tracked as CVE-2021-42299 can be exploited in high complexity attacks dubbed TPM Read more…