Rabia Noureen

Microsoft has unveiled a bunch of Microsoft 365 updates at its annual Inspire partner conference, which just kicked off this morning. Microsoft Teams is also getting several capabilities to make hybrid meetings more engaging, productive & inclusive, and one of the major highlights is a new collaboration feature called Excel Live. As you may recall,…

The US Department of Homeland Security has issued a security advisory about the risks associated with Log4j vulnerabilities. The DHS’ Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) warned that the security flaw is expected to affect federal agencies and organizations until at least 2032. For those unfamiliar, Apache Log4j is a popular open-source Java-based logging framework. It…

Microsoft Teams has released some new features for public preview users. The software giant has announced that the Teams desktop app now lets meeting participants pop out shared content into a separate window. According to Microsoft, the ability to pop out shared meeting content (such as PowerPoint Live, Whiteboard, and screen sharing) should be a…

The internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare has released an advisory about a powerful botnet dubbed Mantis. The botnet was behind the largest-ever HTTPS-based distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in June 2022 and has targeted around 1,000 customers in the past few weeks. Cloudflare explained that its security team mitigated the record-breaking DDoS attack last month that reached a…

Google has officially launched Chrome OS Flex, a free version of Chrome OS that can be installed on almost any PC and Mac. The company first began testing the new Chrome OS experience back in February, and it’s finally available for all schools, businesses, and consumers. Chrome OS Flex is a lightweight, user-friendly, and secure…

Microsoft has announced that it’s bringing support for Apple M1/M2 processors in its Microsoft Teams app for macOS. The company recently updated its Microsoft 365 roadmap to indicate that the new Teams version is expected to be generally available in September. Currently, the Microsoft Teams desktop app runs as an Intel application on Apple Silicon…

Microsoft has recently announced some important updates for Azure AD Connect Group Writeback. This release enables organizations to write back Microsoft 365 groups (assigned & dynamic) to their on-premises Active Directory as a security group, mail-enabled security group, or distribution list. For those unfamiliar, Group Writeback is a useful tool that enables IT Pros to…

Microsoft has released server protection capabilities for its Defender for Business solution. The new security feature is available in preview for small and medium businesses (SMBs) and supports both Windows and Linux servers. Microsoft Defender for Business is a new endpoint security offering designed especially for businesses with up to 300 employees. It provides attack…

Google Cloud today announced Tau T2A, its first virtual machines (VMs) based on the Arm architecture. The company has also unveiled a fully-managed job scheduling service dubbed Google Cloud Batch. In a press release, Google explained that the latest Tau T2A virtual machines are powered by Ampere Altra Arm-based processors. The VMs comes in various…

Microsoft has discovered a new massive AiTM phishing campaign that can steal credentials even if the user account is protected with multi-factor authentication (MFA). The company has warned that the threat actors have targeted over 10,000 organizations since September 2021. According to Microsoft researchers, the AiTM campaign involves inserting a proxy server between a target…

Microsoft is preparing to drop support for its Microsoft 365 apps on some older versions of Windows next year. The software giant has announced that Microsoft 365 apps will no longer support Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2008 R2 after January 10, 2023. The recent blog post follows Microsoft’s previous announcement made last…

Microsoft has announced the general availability of new enterprise IoT security capabilities in its Defender for IoT solution. The company says that these features should help businesses better secure their unmanaged IoT devices connected to enterprise networks. Microsoft Defender for IoT (Formerly known as Azure Defender for IoT) is a security offering that protects enterprise…