Rabia Noureen

Atlassian has released new security patches for its Jira and Jira Service Management solutions. The latest set of updates aims to address a critical vulnerability that could let attackers to bypass authentication controls. According to Atlassian’s security advisory, the bug was first discovered by Khoadha of Viettel Cyber Security. Tracked as CVE-2022-0540 and issued a…

Apple is phasing out its macOS Server application that was first released back in 2011. Indeed, the company has announced in a support document that macOS Server is discontinued as of April 21, 2022 (via MacRumors). According to Apple, all existing customers can still continue to download and use the app on the latest macOS…

Microsoft has announced a free one-to-one consultation service for small businesses, including retailers, nonprofits, education institutions, and more. This new online consultation service is quite similar to the sales support plan introduced back in 2020, and it aims to assist SMBs and education customers with their digital transformation efforts. The Redmond giant explained in its…

Security researchers have revealed a new series of ransomware attacks carried out by the Hive ransomware group to target Microsoft Exchange Servers. Hive is a popular ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model that was first discovered in June 2021. The Hive ransomware group targets business networks with several methods and mechanisms, including phishing emails with attachments. It has…

Microsoft has announced that the Exchange Server cumulative updates (CUs) are switching to a biannual release schedule. The company currently releases CUs quarterly, but this slow release cycle will allow organizations to keep their Exchange servers up-to-date more easily. “We are moving to a release cadence of two CUs per year – releasing in H1…

Back in December, Amazon released emergency fixes to address the Log4j vulnerability in JVMs across multiple environments, but it looks like these updates still left some security loopholes. Since Amazon published the fixes, security researchers have discovered that the original hot patch left AWS customers vulnerable to container escape and privilege escalation bugs (via The…

Microsoft is finally getting ready to deprecate the SMB1 (Server Message Block version 1) file-sharing protocol on Windows PCs. Indeed, the company has announced that SMB1 is now disabled by default in the latest Windows 11 Home Dev Channel builds. SMB1 is an outdated file and resource sharing protocol that allows users to communicate with…

Microsoft announced a significant revamp of its Azure Purview data-governance platform. The Redmond giant is rebranding the service as “Microsoft Purview” and also rolling out new Microsoft 365 compliance capabilities to the suite. The new Microsoft Purview suite provides customers with compliance tools that allow them to view all their data assets in one place….

Last year, Microsoft unveiled its plans to create a fully-managed version of Grafana that runs natively on its Azure cloud platform. Now, the Redmond giant has announced that the new Azure Managed Grafana service is now available in public preview. Grafana is basically an open-source platform that enables organizations to visualize multiple types of reliability…

Microsoft has announced a new data protection feature for its SQL Server tool. The new capability enables organizations to classify and protect SQL Server data with Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) sensitivity labels. If you’re unfamiliar, Microsoft Information Protection is a unified solution that enables customers to discover, classify, and protect data based on its sensitivity…

Microsoft has announced that the Windows 10 November 2021 Update (21H2), which began rolling out on November 16 last year, is finally ready for broad deployment. The news was quietly published on the Windows 10 Health Dashboard last week (via Bleeping Computer), and it indicates that all Windows 10 PCs running older versions of the…

Microsoft has announced the public preview of dynamic administrative units with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). The new feature lets organizations configure rules for adding or deleting users and devices in administrative units (AUs). Azure AD administrative units launched in public preview back in 2020. The feature lets enterprise admins logically divide Azure AD into…