Microsoft software and cloud platforms underpin enterprise systems, so vulnerabilities and security advisories can affect identity, data, and operations.
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Microsoft is a technology company whose Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, identity services, and developer tools form a widely deployed enterprise computing ecosystem. Its security relevance spans endpoint and server software, cloud control planes, authentication, collaboration data, and the update mechanisms used to maintain them.
Security news under this tag commonly concerns vulnerabilities requiring patching, exploits against exposed services, identity or token compromise, and misconfiguration of cloud permissions or authentication policies. Practitioners should verify affected versions and exposure, apply updates or mitigations, enforce multifactor authentication and least privilege, and monitor relevant audit logs. Incidents involving Microsoft-hosted identities or data may require rapid session and credential containment, investigation across cloud and on-premises systems, and assessment of privacy or regulatory obligations.
Microsoft says some antivirus exclusions previously recommended for Exchange servers should be removed to boost their security. [...]
Threat actors are actively exploiting the popularity of OpenAI's ChatGPT AI tool to distribute Windows malware, infect Android devices with spyware, or direct unsuspecting victims to phishing pages. [...]
Google is investigating a service outage affecting Gmail users worldwide that causes issues when syncing emails with Microsoft servers via the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP). [...]
VMware has released a critical security upgrade to address a critical injection vulnerability that impacts several versions of Carbon Black App Control for Windows. [...]
Microsoft has released the February 2023 optional cumulative updates for all editions of Windows 11 22H2 and all supported Windows 10 versions. [...]
VMware has released a vSphere ESXi update to address a known issue causing some Windows Server 2022 virtual machines to no longer boot after installing this month's KB5022842 update. [...]
Microsoft will start testing Bing Chat tones, enabling users to switch between receiving answers that are either more creative or more focused on their queries. [...]
According to reports from an increasing number of Microsoft customers, Outlook inboxes have been flooded with spam emails over the last nine hours because email spam filters are currently broken. [...]
Microsoft will soon add a new way to end unresponsive processes in Windows 11 in the form of a new option that will show up when right-clicking an app's taskbar icon. [...]