Security

Microsoft Windows 10 comes under fire for privacy. The Electronic Frontier Foundation last week reopened the case against Redmond’s telemetry and personalization efforts. Despite acknowledging previous press stories were wildly incorrect, EFF paralegal staffer Amul Kalia argues his case with sincere passion…

Microsoft to change how older Windows versions get patches. For better or worse, it’ll be more like the Windows 10 way. Next Patch Tuesday, prepare for a single rollup patch. This means you won’t be able to pick and choose the patches that work for you. And that’s good, because… um, reasons.

Russell demonstrates how to use PowerShell to quickly create a self-signed certificate, which are handy to use in test scenarios where a certificate is a requirement.

Microsoft Windows Secure Boot has a big problem. It’s no longer secure, and can’t be fixed—or so say a pair of security researchers who found the issue. Apparently, Microsoft created a secret backdoor, for internal QA use. But two Ring Of Lightning researchers uncovered the so-called “golden key.”

Aidan explains, using recent statistics, how the nature of attacks has changed from floppy disks and firewall probes, to a more intelligent system that targets human weaknesses.

Diego Samuilov provides an overview of the Microsoft Advanced Thread Analytics service, which is part of Microsoft’s Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS), that enables organizations to detect and eliminate threats more quickly.

Learn this easy tip on how to help identify phishing attacks in your organization by implementing conditional formatting in Outlook.

Keep your data private and secure with Microsoft’s Azure Rights Management functionality, which is part of the Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite.

In strong words, Microsoft’s Brad Smith further backed Apple and his company’s position at RSA’s annual security conference.

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