Microsoft continued its march toward developer dominance this week with the launch of Visual Studio Code for the Web, a lightweight version of the company’s highly popular (mostly) open source…
Microsoft continues to inch closer to making Android apps available on Windows 11 via a new Windows Subsystem for Android. Today the company published information on its documentation site for…
Microsoft has asked system administrators to patch their PowerShell 7 installations against two vulnerabilities that can allow attackers to bypass Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC) to run arbitrary code, and…
So far, 2021 has proved to be somewhat of a security annus horribilis for tech giant Microsoft, with numerous vulnerabilities impacting several of its leading services, including Active Directory, Exchange,…
On Friday, cybersecurity researcher TheAnalyst explained on Twitter how BazarLoader malware leads to ransomware that can severely affect healthcare, among other industries. He then called out Microsoft, asking if the…
For many of us, it has been one of the most important apps of the lockdown and remote working world, but Microsoft Teams could be in hot water following complaints…
The Linux Foundation announced Wednesday a bevy of big-name tech and financial players pooled $10 million in donations for its Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). Donors include major names in…
Microsoft has released 71 security fixes for software including an actively-exploited zero-day bug in Win32k. The Redmond giant’s latest round of patches, usually released on the second Tuesday of each…
As Windows 11 launches Tuesday with stricter hardware requirements than past versions of the operating system, Microsoft says that security updates will not be guaranteed for users that opt to…
Microsoft announced that Basic Authentication will be turned off for all protocols in all tenants starting October 1st, 2022, to protect millions of Exchange Online users.
Microsoft has performed a relatively rare Known Issue Rollback (KIR) to fix an issue caused by an update to Windows 10. The update was found to cause problems opening files…
In July 2021, the UK government invited startups, businesses, and policymakers to a consultation about the most pressing competition problems in the tech industry, ahead of the launch of its…
A design issue in the Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover feature can cause Outlook and other third-party Exchange client applications to leak plaintext Windows domain credentials to external servers. Here’s what companies…
At the Open Source Summit in Seattle, The Linux Foundation, and edX, the leading massive open online course (MOOC) provider released the 2021 Open Source Jobs Report. In this survey…
Black Lotus Labs revealed on Thursday that it’s discovered new malware that uses the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to avoid being detected by security tools.