Microsoft 365 outage affects multiple services
Microsoft Corp said late Monday a recent change it introduced likely caused a major outage, affecting users’ access to multiple Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook.com and Microsoft Teams.
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Microsoft issues warning about actively exploited Zerologon vulnerability in Windows
It is just days since the CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) issued an emergency warning about a critical Windows vulnerability. Now Microsoft has issued a warning that the vulnerability…
Lenovo is Bringing Linux to ThinkPad, ThinkStation
In a surprising development, Lenovo announced today that it will offer Ubuntu Linux preinstalled on ThinkPad laptops and ThinkStation desktop PCs. Lenovo announced that it was bringing Linux to its…
Microsoft is bringing Edge to Linux developers in October
Edge is finally coming to Linux. At Ignite 2020 today, Microsoft announced that Edge for Linux will be available in the Dev preview channel starting in October.
Microsoft kills off Windows 10 update that had been slowing down PCs
Goodbye Windows 10 update KB4559309, we hardly knew ye. After less than two months, in which the Windows 10 update managed to annoy many users by seemingly slowing down their…
Microsoft secures backend server that leaked Bing data
Microsoft has suffered a rare cyber-security lapse earlier this month when the company’s IT staff accidentally left one of Bing’s backend servers exposed online. The server is believed to have…
New vulnerabilities allow hackers to bypass MFA for Microsoft 365
Critical vulnerabilities in multi-factor authentication (MFA) implementation in cloud environments where WS-Trust is enabled could allow attackers to bypass MFA and access cloud applications such as Microsoft 365 which use…
Microsoft: These patches aim to make Linux run as root partition on Hyper-V
Microsoft has submitted a series of patches to Linux kernel developers requesting that Linux run as the root partition on the Hyper-V, its hypervisor software for running Windows and non-Windows…
Microsoft Blows Its Promise, Limits Xbox Series S Backward Compatibility
Microsoft’s Xbox Series S won’t offer the enhancements baked into the Xbox One X versions of a game. Instead, it’ll run the Xbox One S version. Microsoft has, in a…
Windows 10 update reportedly kills Linux support
Windows 10 has run into trouble with its latest cumulative update for the May 2020 Update, it probably won’t surprise you to learn, and this time the apparent casualty is…
Microsoft September 2020 Patch Tuesday fixes 129 vulnerabilities
Microsoft has published today its monthly batch of security updates, also known as Patch Tuesday. This month, the OS maker patched 129 vulnerabilities across 15 products, ranging from Windows to…
Microsoft to developers: Say goodbye to cloud-based dev environment Visual Studio Codespaces
Developers using Visual Studio Codespaces will need to move to GitHub Codespaces but there’s no way to migrate existing projects from one service to the other.
AWS launches new Linux distribution
Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) new Linux distribution, Bottlerocket, has left the developer review phase and entered generally availability, according to an Amazon blog post. The second Linux distro developed by…
Enough with the Linux security FUD
Every few weeks, another security story appears saying how insecure Linux is. There’s only one problem with most of them: They’re fake news. The real problem is incompetent system administrators.
Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years
A security flaw in the way Microsoft Windows guards users against malicious files was actively exploited in malware attacks for two years before last week, when Microsoft finally issued a…