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 has released a temporary fix for a known issue impacting Windows apps using ODBC database connections after installing the November 2022 Patch Tuesday updates. [...]
Microsoft has shed light on four different ransomware families – KeRanger, FileCoder, MacRansom, and EvilQuest – that are known to impact Apple macOS systems
Play gang blamed, ProxyNotShell cleared and hosted Exchange doomed Rackspace has confirmed the Play ransomware gang was behind last month's hacking and said it won't bring back its hosted Microsoft Exchange email service, as it continues working to recover customers' email data lost in the December 2 ransomware attack.…
A long way from password crackers for Windows NT for former L0pht legend Former Twitter security chief and whistleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko has landed his first official role since he left the company, a part-time job as "executive in residence" with cybersecurity firm Rapid7.…
A signed Windows driver has been used in attacks on banks in French-speaking countries, likely from a threat actor that stole more than $11 million from various banks. [...]
The hosting provider had not applied Microsoft's new patch due to publicly reported issues with the update.
Texas-based cloud computing provider Rackspace has confirmed that the Play ransomware operation was behind a recent cyberattack that took down the company's hosted Microsoft Exchange environments. [...]
Microsoft has reminded customers that the extended support for all editions of Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 will end on October 10. [...]
Hackers are abusing the Windows Problem Reporting (WerFault.exe) error reporting tool for Windows to load malware into a compromised system's memory using a DLL sideloading technique. [...]
More than 60,000 Microsoft Exchange servers exposed online are yet to be patched against the CVE-2022-41082 remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, one of the two security flaws targeted by ProxyNotShell exploits. [...]
2022 is over, and it's been filled with a wide assortment of stories ranging from the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine to the many bugs introduced by Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for Windows. [...]