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Microsoft Investigates Outlook Issues With Security Keys, Search Microsoft is investigating several issues impacting Outlook customers and leading to problems related to security keys, search results, and more. As the company explains, some users cannot add Gmail accounts if they use security keys for multi-factor authentication. “Adding a Gmail account Read more…

Mozilla Tests Microsoft Bing As The Default Firefox Search Engine Mozilla is running a study to test users’ responses to changing the default Firefox search engine to Microsoft Bing. Like all browsers, Mozilla Firefox automatically configures a browser to a default search engine for performing searches via the address bar. Read more…

OMIGOD: Microsoft Azure VMs Exploited To Drop Mirai, Miners Threat actors started actively exploiting the critical Azure OMIGOD vulnerabilities two days after Microsoft disclosed them during this month’s Patch Tuesday. The four security flaws (allowing privilege escalation and remote code execution) were found in the Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) software agent silently Read more…

Microsoft Asks Azure Linux Admins to Manually Patch OMIGOD Bugs Microsoft has issued additional guidance on securing Azure Linux machines impacted by recently addressed critical OMIGOD vulnerabilities. The four security flaws (allowing remote code execution and privilege escalation) were found in the Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) software agent silently installed Read more…

How To Fix Printers Asking For Admins Creds After PrintNightmare Patch Some printers will request administrator credentials every time users try to print in Windows Point and Print environments due to a known issue caused by KB5005033 or later security updates addressing the PrintNightmare vulnerability. This happens because, after installing these PrintNightmare patches, only administrators are allowed to Read more…

Microsoft Shares Fix for ‘camera upload is paused’ Android OneDrive Error Microsoft says a OneDrive issue prevents some Android users from uploading photos and videos from their camera roll to the cloud. According to stats available on the OneDrive app’s Google’s Play Store entry, more than 1 billion users worldwide have Read more…

Microsoft Rolls Out Passwordless Login for All Microsoft Accounts Microsoft is rolling out passwordless login support over the coming weeks, allowing customers to sign in to Microsoft accounts without using a password. The company first allowed commercial customers to rollout passwordless authentication in their environments in March after a breakthrough year in Read more…

Microsoft Fixes Remaining Windows PrintNightmare Vulnerabilities Microsoft has released a security update to fix the last remaining PrintNightmare zero-day vulnerabilities that allowed attackers to gain administrative privileges on Windows devices quickly. In June, a zero-day Windows print spooler vulnerability dubbed PrintNightmare (CVE-2021-34527) was accidentally disclosed. This vulnerability exploits the Windows Point and Read more…

Microsoft Fixes Windows CVE-2021-40444 MSHTML Zero-day Bug Microsoft today fixed a high severity zero-day vulnerability actively exploited in targeted attacks against Microsoft Office and Office 365 on Windows 10 computers. The remote code execution (RCE) security flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-40444, was found in the MSHTML Internet Explorer browser rendering engine used by Read more…