Here you will find all the articles with the tag: Microsoft.
Hackers from the Russian-backed Midnight Blizzard managed to obtain important emails from Microsoft. The attack led to the interception of communications between regulators and the tech company. So concludes the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The danger from the ... Read more
13 days ago
Microsoft has fixed a number of already exploited vulnerabilities in its monthly Patch Tuesday update. The most important is CVE-2024-26234, which allows malicious actors to monitor and intercept network traffic. In the April 2024 security update with 190 enhancements, Microsoft states that the ... Read more
15 days ago
Copilot is coming to Microsoft's Visual Studio 17.10 as a unified version. The update eliminates the need for the separate extensions Copilot and Copilot Chat, and integrates them into one, which will have general availability in Visual Studio in May. A GitHub Copilot subscription is required to... Read more
15 days ago
Microsoft sees many opportunities for AI research and development in the UK and is now opening a dedicated AI hub in the heart of London for that purpose. The company earlier announced it would invest around 2.9 billion euros (2.5 billion British Pounds) in AI in the UK. According to recently ap... Read more
16 days ago
Microsoft has introduced a Windows driver that prevents users from changing default browser Edge in Windows 10 and 11 via third-party software or manual registry changes. The driver UCPD.sys, or User Choice Protection Driver, landed without notice among other February updates for Windows 10 (KB5... Read more
16 days ago
In response to -certainly not unwarranted- concerns about job loss due to the rise of AI, major technology companies have formed a consortium to prepare workers and organizations in the ICT sector for upcoming changes through upskilling and retraining. Cisco spearheaded the foundation of this aptly... Read more
20 days ago
Windows 11 Insider build 26100 includes a significantly faster Microsoft Store. The feature was not mentioned in the official announcement of this latest version. Build 26100 focuses mainly on bug fixes and other relatively minor improvements. For example, it was already possible to run Copilot ... Read more
20 days ago
Microsoft is presenting a public preview of its unified security operations platform announced in November. This platform connects SIEM and XDR from Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR with GenAI features from Microsoft Copilot for Security. It aims to give SOCs more agency to directly disrupt atta... Read more
21 days ago
Windows 10 will no longer receive free security updates starting Oct. 14, 2025. Microsoft therefore recommends that users switch to Windows 11 before that date. If not, safe continued usage will only be possible through the Extended Security Updates program. That comes at a high cost. Microsoft ... Read more
21 days ago
Chinese hacker group Storm-0558's attack on Microsoft in 2023 should never have happened. That is the conclusion of the U.S. Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB). In the report, the CSRB describes a host of security flaws that made the infiltration possible. Microsoft, aside from being active in a w... Read more
21 days ago
