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Outlook for iOS breaks company security, developer warns

February 2, 2015

One the same day that Microsoft released its new Outlook app for iOS, a developer has warned that it breaks corporate security in multiple ways. RenÃ© Winkelmeyer, Head of …

Supposedly clean Office documents download malware

January 27, 2015

Bitdefender is warning Microsoft Office users against the emergence of a new spam campaign that is looking to trick antispam filters in order to allow spam to pass freely into …

Microsoft releases Sysmon 2.0

January 21, 2015

Sysmon is a Windows system service and device driver that, once installed on a system, remains resident across system reboots to monitor and log system activity to the Windows …

January’s Patch Tuesday marks the start of a new era

January 14, 2015

Microsoft’s January 2015 patch Tuesday marks the start of a new era. It seems that Microsoft’s trend towards openness in security has reversed and the company that …

Unfazed by Microsoft’s criticism, Google discloses another Windows 8.1 flaw

January 13, 2015

Google apparently has no mercy for Microsoft’s developers, and is determined to stick to its 90-day deadline for fixing software flaws, as it publicly released details …

Microsoft scolds Google for lack of flexibility in vulnerability disclosure

January 12, 2015

Microsoft is not pleased with Google’s recent release of the details of a zero-day Windows 8.1 vulnerability and the code that can be used to exploit it, and has …

Pre-Patch Tuesday alerts no longer publicly available

January 9, 2015

Microsoft’s Advanced Notification Service (ANS), which for over a decade provided advanced warning about the patches and updates that the company would push out on its …

Microsoft released seven advisories, three are critical

December 10, 2014

December’s Patch Tuesday brings us seven advisories, three of which are listed as Critical. Depending on how you want to count it, we see a total of 24 or 25 CVEs …

Microsoft to patch three critical issues

December 5, 2014

December’s advanced Patch Tuesday brings us seven advisories, three of which are listed as Critical. The Critical issues affect, Internet Explorer, all supported …

IE “Unicorn” bug actively exploited in the wild

November 21, 2014

Last week, in its regular Patch Tuesday, Microsoft patched a number of serious vulnerabilities, including one that is nearly two decades old, dating back to Microsoft IE 3.0. …

Windows Kerberos bug: How to detect signs of exploitation before the update?

November 20, 2014

Microsoft has shared more details about the critical elevation of privilege bug found in Microsoft Windows Kerberos Key Distribution Center (CVE-2014-6324) which is being …

Microsoft open sources .NET server stack

November 13, 2014

Microsoft open sourced the full server-side .NET stack and expanded .NET to run on the Linux and Mac OS platforms. The company also released Visual Studio Community 2013, a …