Rabia Noureen

Microsoft has announced Azure AD-based single sign-on and passwordless authentication support for Azure Virtual Desktop. These new capabilities are currently available in public preview for Windows 11, Windows 10, and Windows Server 2022 session hosts. Azure Virtual Desktop is a cloud-based virtualization solution that allows organizations to deploy desktops and applications for end users. It…

Microsoft has unveiled a recent cybersecurity attack that allowed the threat actors to compromise Exchange Online. The attacker abused unsecured administrator accounts to gain access to the cloud tenants and created malicious OAuth applications to reconfigure the victim’s email server to send phishing emails. OAuth is an open-standard authorization protocol that enables users to share…

Microsoft is planning to make it easier for users to catch up on important Activity feed notifications in Teams. The Microsoft Teams desktop app is getting a new toggle button that will let users view all unread items in the Activity feed with a single click. The Activity feed in Microsoft Teams allows users to…

Microsoft has acknowledged a new issue with the recent Windows updates, which prevents users from copying or moving files/shortcuts via Group Policy Object (GPO). The issue is caused after installing the September Patch Tuesday updates, and it affects all supported versions of Windows. Earlier this month, several IT admins complained that the GPO could no…

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced its plans to add support for Loop components to its Outlook email client. Loop components are already available in Microsoft Teams and the Outlook web app, and Microsoft has now started rolling out this feature in preview to Outlook for Windows. Microsoft announced the Loop application last year to support…

Back in March, Microsoft started testing a new SMB authentication rate limiter feature in Windows 11 and Windows Server. Now, the company has enabled this feature by default in the latest Windows 11 preview build 25206 for Insiders in the Dev Channel. The Server Message Block (SMB) protocol is a network protocol that lets users…

Microsoft has announced the integration of new apps and services in its Viva employee experience platform. The company is launching today a new app called Viva Pulse that enables team leads and managers to get regular employee feedback directly within Microsoft Teams. “Viva Pulse uses smart templates and research-backed questions to help managers pinpoint what’s…

Last week, Uber confirmed a major cybersecurity attack that compromised its internal communications and engineering systems. The company believes that someone affiliated with the hacking group Lapsus$ leveraged the MFA fatigue attack technique to compromise an Uber employee account. According to the New York Times, the hackers social engineered the company’s worker after discovering his…

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint will soon turn on tamper protection by default for all existing enterprise customers. The tamper protection feature prevents malicious apps from making unwanted changes to important security configuration settings on Windows, Windows Server, and macOS. Microsoft introduced tamper protection in its enterprise endpoint security solution back in 2019. Currently, the feature…

The just-released Windows 11 2022 Update is bringing several new security features to the OS. The first major update for Windows 11 brings a new Smart App Control feature that lets users automatically block potentially dangerous apps from running on Windows 11 PCs. “This feature creates an AI model using intelligence, based on the 43…

Following months of testing with Windows Insiders, Microsoft has finally started rolling out the Windows 11 2022 Update to all customers worldwide. The first major update for Windows 11 brings several new accessibility, productivity, and meeting features, with more new experiences coming in a separate update next month. Windows Studio Effects First up, Microsoft has…

Microsoft has started rolling out the Windows 11 2022 Update today, which is also known as Windows 11 version 22H2. This is the first major Windows 11 release since the launch of the new operating system last year, and Microsoft will be taking a measured approach to offer the update via Windows Update to ensure…