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Microsoft has launched a URL page for its Microsoft 365 Defender solution. The new page provides a unified hub that lets security teams investigate URLs and domains as well as take remediation actions. “Whether it’s pivoting to emails, user clicks, or devices associated with URLs and fully qualified domain names (FQDNs), the enhanced functionality of…

Tavis Ormandy, a Google Security researcher has discovered a new vulnerability affecting AMD’s Zen 2 processors. Dubbed Zenbleed, the security flaw could let attackers steal passwords, cryptographic keys, and other sensitive information from software running on vulnerable machines. In a recent blog post, Ormandy detailed that the Zenbleed vulnerability (CVE-2023-20593) was first reported to AMD…

Last month, Microsoft unveiled its plans to replace Windows 11’s Mail and Calendar apps with the new web-based Outlook for Windows client in September 2024. The company later detailed that it’s re-evaluating the timeline and implementation of this change. In a recent update posted on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft indicated that it would…

Microsoft has released a new firmware analysis feature for Microsoft Defender for IoT. The new capability conducts an automated analysis of a binary firmware image that runs on an IoT device to identify potential security threats and vulnerabilities. With firmware analysis, IT admins can view a detailed listing of open-source packages found in the firmware…

Microsoft has recently disclosed a security breach that allowed Chinese hackers to access the email accounts of around two dozen organizations. Now, security researchers have found that the stolen security key provided access to far beyond Outlook and Exchange Online email accounts. According to Microsoft, the Chinese hacking group (dubbed Storm-0558) used forged authentication tokens…

Microsoft announced yesterday that it’s blocking the use of Remote PowerShell (RPS) protocol for Exchange Online in June 2023. The company recommends organizations to plan their migrations to the latest Exchange Online PowerShell module. In October, Microsoft started killing off Basic Authentication support for Exchange Online customers to prevent password spray attacks. This change applies…

Microsoft Teams is getting a new collaborative meeting notes feature to improve the meeting experience. This release enables participants to collaborate on notes with their colleagues during Teams meetings. In Microsoft Teams, the collaborative meeting notes feature allows users to take notes, create agendas, as well as generate action items. It eliminates the need to…

Microsoft has announced a public preview of Azure Boost for enterprise customers this week. The new offering is designed to offload virtualization processes onto dedicated hardware and software. The new Azure Boost service enables customers to access experimental SKUs. This release should make it easier to test integrations with their existing virtual machines (VMs) ahead…

Microsoft-owned GitHub has announced the limited public beta release of GitHub Copilot Chat for enterprise customers and organizations. This release brings a context-aware conversational coding assistant into Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code development environments. GitHub launched the chatbot as a part of the Copilot X initiative to extend its code completion tool to more…

Splunk Inc. announced this week a new strategic partnership with Microsoft. The new deal will enable both companies to build Splunk’s enterprise security and observability solutions on Microsoft Azure. Splunk is a popular platform that enables customers to search, analyze, and visualize machine-generated data in real-time. It collects and processes data coming from a wide…