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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…

Microsoft has launched its Defender for Endpoint solution on Android Enterprise (AE) company-owned personally enabled (COPE) devices. The company says that organizations can deploy this update with Microsoft Intune. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is an enterprise endpoint security solution that helps to protect businesses from advanced threats. With this release, Android Enterprise COPE devices can…

Microsoft announced a major change to how it delivers new releases of SharePoint Server Subscription Edition. Indeed, Microsoft will now switch to a biannual release schedule that will allow the company to release new feature updates twice a year. Microsoft launched SharePoint Server Subscription Edition in July last year. It’s an on-premises version of SharePoint…

Microsoft Teams is getting a new schedule send feature that allows users to choose a specific time to send a chat message. The feature was spotted by Petri Jämsen, a Microsoft 365 consultant, and it’s rolling out gradually in public preview for the Teams desktop and web apps. First announced at Ignite 2021, the schedule…

Security researchers have recently identified a vulnerability in the Microsoft Teams desktop app. The security flaw could allow attackers to access authentication tokens and accounts with multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled. According to the cybersecurity company Vectra, Microsoft Teams stores user authentication tokens in plain text on the device. It would allow threat actors with local…

Windows 10 version 21H1, also known as the Windows 10 May 2021 Update, will reach end of support in three months. The company is reminding customers that it will stop providing support to all editions of Windows 10 version 21H1 on December 13, and it will no longer receive security patches after that date. Microsoft…

Microsoft has introduced a new Group Policy that should make it easier to control the Internet Explorer (IE) retirement process in enterprise environments. The “Disable IE Policy” configuration lets IT admins choose when to permanently disable IE for all end users instead of waiting for the gradual rollout. Back in June, Microsoft announced the long-awaited…

Microsoft has released a remixed version of its default Teams ringtone, which is now available for all desktop, web, and mobile users. The company has partnered with a popular TikTok influencer “Calum Newton” (also known as CandyMoore.mp3), to create the remixed ringtone for Microsoft Teams. “Calum Newton, who goes by CandyMoore.mp3 on social media, created…