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Microsoft Fixes Access Apps Failing to Open After July Updates Microsoft is rolling out a fix for a known issue that caused MS Access runtime applications not to open after installing July 2022’s Patch Tuesday Office/Access security updates. Based on user complaints on Microsoft’s official community website and Reddit, the KB5002112 and KB5002121 updates are the ones triggering this Read more…

Microsoft Teams Outage Also Takes Down Microsoft 365 Services What initially started like a minor Microsoft Teams outage has also taken down multiple Microsoft 365 services with Teams integration, including Exchange Online, Windows 365, and Office Online. “We’ve received reports of users being unable to access Microsoft Teams or leverage any features,” the Read more…

Microsoft Starts Blocking Office Macros by Default, Once Again Microsoft announced today that it resumed the rollout of VBA macro auto-blocking in downloaded Office documents after temporarily rolling it back earlier this month following user feedback. The change comes after the company improved its user and admin support documentation to make Read more…

Microsoft Investigates Ongoing Exchange Online, Outlook Outage Microsoft is investigating an ongoing outage impacting Microsoft 365 services after customers have reported experiencing issues while trying to sign into, access, and receive emails on the outlook.com portal and via Exchange Online. “We’re investigating an issue with users accessing or experiencing degraded functionality when using Read more…

Microsoft investigates July updates breaking Access applications Microsoft is investigating user reports that MS Access runtime applications stop opening after installing this month’s Patch Tuesday Office/Access security updates. According to customers’ complaints on Microsoft’s official community website and Reddit, July’s cumulative updates trigger this issue for MS Access 2016 and MS Access 2013 Read more…

Microsoft Links Holy Ghost Ransomware Operation to North Korean Hackers For more than a year, North Korean hackers have been running a ransomware operation called HolyGhost, attacking small businesses in various countries. The group has been active for quite a while but it failed to gain the notoriety and financial Read more…

Microsoft Fixes Dozens of Azure Site Recovery Privilege Escalation Bugs Microsoft has fixed 32 vulnerabilities in the Azure Site Recovery suite that could have allowed attackers to gain elevated privileges or perform remote code execution. The Azure Site Recovery service is a disaster recovery service that will automatically fail-over workloads Read more…

Microsoft Warns Windows Server 20H2 Reaches EOS Next Month Microsoft reminded customers today that Windows Server, version 20H2 will be reaching its End of Service (EOS) next month, on August 9. This comes after a May 2022 reminder that Windows Server 20H2 will reach the mainstream support end date for Standard Core Read more…

Microsoft July 2022 Patch Tuesday Fixes Exploited Zero-day, 84 Flaws Today is Microsoft’s July 2022 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for one actively exploited zero-day vulnerability and a total of 84 flaws. Four of the 84 vulnerabilities fixed in today’s update are classified as ‘Critical’ as they allow Read more…

Microsoft: Phishing Bypassed MFA in Attacks Against 10,000 orgs Microsoft says a massive series of phishing attacks has targeted more than 10,000 organizations starting with September 2021, using the gained access to victims’ mailboxes in follow-on business email compromise (BEC) attacks. The threat actors used landing pages designed to hijack Read more…