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Microsoft Previews Linux Endpoint Detection And Response Capabilities Microsoft has announced today the public preview of endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities on Linux servers running Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) — now known as Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. The addition of EDR capabilities provides security analysts with the ability to spot attacks Read more…

Office 365 Phishing Campaign Detects Sandboxes To Evade Detection Microsoft is tracking an ongoing Office 365 phishing campaign that makes use of several methods to evade automated analysis in attacks against enterprise targets. “We’re tracking an active credential phishing attack targeting enterprises that uses multiple sophisticated methods for defense evasion Read more…

Microsoft Brings Its On-die Pluton Security Processor To Intel, AMD CPUs Microsoft is integrating its Pluton security processor directly into Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm CPUs to better secure Windows PCs. Windows 10 gains enhanced security by utilizing specialized chips called Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) to provide hardware-based security functions. These functions include generating Read more…

Microsoft Edge To Make Sure You Never Miss Important Notifications Earlier this year, Microsoft Edge was updated with a new feature that hides pesky browser notification dialog boxes that are commonly used by news publishers, social media platforms, and websites to continuously nag users with links to their content, spam, or even Read more…

Microsoft Pauses Windows Cumulative Update Previews For December Microsoft has announced that they will not be releasing cumulative updates previews in December 2020 due to limited staff and operations during the upcoming holidays. When Microsoft releases new update Windows and Windows server updates, it uses a fixed schedule, or cadence, Read more…

Microsoft Now Lets You Run Multiple Android Apps In Windows 10 Microsoft has announced today that Windows 10 customers with devices running the latest Insider build can launch and interact with multiple Android apps directly on their computers’ desktops. Support for streaming and using Android apps on Windows 10 from Read more…

Office November Security Updates Fix Remote Code Execution Bugs Microsoft has released the November 2020 Office security updates with a total of 22 updates and 5 cumulative updates for 7 different products, fixing 14 vulnerabilities with five of them potentially enabling remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. Read more…

Microsoft Is Investigating Undeletable Outlook.com Emails Microsoft is investigating a recently discovered issue that causes deleted emails to reappear in the mail inbox of Outlook.com accounts. The exact cause behind these Outlook.com undeletable emails but the company says that it’s working on a fix to be deployed when a resolution is available. Workaround Read more…

Microsoft Fixes Windows Zero-day Disclosed By Google Last Month Microsoft has fixed today a Windows kernel zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild as part of targeted attacks and publicly disclosed by Project Zero, Google’s 0day bug-hunting team, last month. According to Project Zero researchers Mateusz Jurczyk and Sergei Glazunov who discovered it, the security Read more…

Microsoft November 2020 Patch Tuesday Fixes 112 Vulnerabilities Today is Microsoft’s November 2020 Patch Tuesday, and Windows administrators worldwide will be running around putting out fires all day, so be nice to them. With the November 2020 Patch Tuesday security updates release, Microsoft has released fixes for 112 vulnerabilities in Read more…