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TechRadar ·
Désiré has been musing and writing about technology during a career spanning four decades. He dabbled in website builders and web hosting when DHTML and frames were in vogue and started narrating about the impact of technology on...
HackRead ·
Microsoft and Health-ISAC seize domains linked to YAM Store, CoGUI and Iron Man, services that enabled over 1…
Help Net Security · · Medium severity
Microsoft uncovered a criminal marketplace supplying tools and accounts used in phishing scams worldwide. Attackers used these resources to target organizations in healthcare, financial services, wholesale distribution, and IT across...
The Verge ·
Big Walk 's co-op multiplayer walking adventure has proved popular since launching in August, but Xbox players have been excluded from the fun - and now the game's creators have explained why. Developer House House said in a blog post...
Phoronix ·
Microsoft's newest software release for Linux is... Microsoft Defender for the Linux desktop. Microsoft Defender has been ported to Linux to "secure Linux desktops" with Microsoft acknowledging that "more developers begin to use Linux...
Infosecurity Magazine · · Medium severity
Microsoft and partners reveal a major Chinese-language phishing network centered around the Yam Store marketplace
BleepingComputer · · Medium severity
Microsoft has resolved a known issue that was causing black screens, desktop loading issues, and Explorer crashes after installing Windows 11 updates released since August.
SiliconANGLE ·
Cybersecurity company Proofpoint Inc. today unveiled new Microsoft 365 security features meant to get managed service providers and the businesses they look after ready to adopt artificial intelligence tools safely. The four new...
AI coding token costs are on track to rival human payroll | InfoWorld ·
Using vibe coding to scratch an itch has many of the same issues as using low-code and no-code development tools. Putting together something quickly to solve a specific problem lacks the level of discipline of software engineering,...
AI saves workers a day a week, but they don’t know what to do with it | CIO ·
I’ve spent more than 20 years running IT and security for organizations across California and around the country. Over that time, my team has taken over, deployed and cleaned up Microsoft 365 environments for law firms, commercial real...
Computerworld · · Medium severity
Microsoft says it has dismantled a criminal marketplace responsible for 1 billion malicious messages. Working with international authorities and several tech and cybersecurity companies in a nearly year-long investigation, Redmond...
CSO Online Security · · Medium severity
Microsoft says it has dismantled a criminal marketplace responsible for 1 billion malicious messages. Working with international authorities and several tech and cybersecurity companies in a nearly year-long investigation, Redmond...
SiliconANGLE ·
Memory has become the scarcest resource in the AI data center, and hyperscalers are rethinking how they hand it out. Composable memory, which pools capacity beyond individual servers and assigns it to workloads on demand, is emerging as...
Slashdot ·
"Starting today, Linux desktops are now officially supported by Microsoft Defender," reports Neowin. A public preview of the threat detection app extends its enterprise security platform beyond servers to developer workstations running...
The Verge ·
We've all gotten a scam text about a nonexistent parking ticket or a fake package delivery, but hopefully you'll start seeing fewer of them. Microsoft says it helped dismantle a marketplace for scammers sending phishing messages like...
The Hacker News · · Medium severity
Microsoft and Health-ISAC, along with the Japan Cybercrime Control Center (JC3) and a coalition of private sector companies, such as Resecurity, Cloudflare, Oracle, Proofpoint, and TRM Labs, announced the disruption of three phishing...
The Verge ·
Old-school physics-based weather forecasting and even new AI models typically become less reliable beyond two weeks, a problem Microsoft claims to have solved using machine learning. Researchers with the company say they've found a new,...
TechRepublic ·
Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 1,413 vulnerabilities, including an exploited Windows zero-day and critical Outlook security flaws. The post Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fixes 1,413 Flaws: Windows Zero-Day Already Under Attack...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News · · Medium severity
The three marketplaces helped hackers impersonate major businesses and governments. Microsoft now controls the markets’ domain names.
Slashdot ·
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: The Netherlands' Tax and Customs Administration has abandoned its planned Microsoft 365 public-cloud rollout. Why? The reasons were clear at the Open Source Summit Europe conference, where...
BleepingComputer · · Low severity
Microsoft has resolved a known issue that caused Always On VPN connection issues after installing the September 2026 Windows 11 security updates.
GeekWire ·
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gives the company’s founding mission an AI update at Build in June, a preview of the “Windows Hybrid Intelligence” initiative that the company unveiled last week. (Photo by Dan DeLong for Microsoft) In less...
The Record by Recorded Future ·
The tech giant worked with Japan’s National Police Agency and healthcare cybersecurity organization Health-ISAC to obtain a U.S. court order seizing and redirecting domains that were part of the infrastructure underlying YAM Store,...
SecurityWeek · · Medium severity
Backed by a federal court order, Microsoft and Health-ISAC seized domains powering YAM Store, CoGUI, and Iron Man. The post Microsoft Disrupts Chinese-Language Phishing Market Behind 1B+ Messages appeared first on SecurityWeek .
CIO Africa ·
Microsoft set out its plan to speed AI adoption across Africa’s oil, gas, utilities and mining sectors at African Energy...
TechCentral · · High severity
The gang behind the MIP Holdings breach ranks fourth on leak sites, but Microsoft is sceptical.
Computerworld ·
Ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot and its offspring Microsoft Copilot were launched, critics have pointed out that both products — and all other generative AI tools — have been built using billions of dollars of stolen intellectual...
TNW ·
A senior Microsoft cloud boss has asked team leaders to find ways to cut costs by at least 20%, The Information reported, citing people who know about the plans. We have not independently verified the report, and Microsoft disputes it....
BleepingComputer · · Medium severity
Microsoft has confirmed that non-admin users may be unable to connect to devices via Remote Desktop after installing recent Windows updates if the "Administrator protection" security feature is enabled.
Infosecurity Magazine ·
Microsoft issued its largest ever round of security updates in the October Patch Tuesday
Tahawul Tech ·
Microsoft recently showcased the third-generation of its custom in-house AI chip, as part of the organisation’s plan to reduce reliance on purchasing processors from Nvidia. The Maia 300 chip will be used for the tech giant’s...
HackRead ·
Microsoft addressed 1,413 security vulnerabilities in its October 2026 Patch Tuesday update, making it the company’s largest monthly…
Help Net Security · · Medium severity
In another record-breaking Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has squashed over 1,400 security bugs, including a Mark of the Web bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-96951) exploited by attackers in the wild. CVE-2026-96951 is a command injection...
SecurityWeek · · Critical severity
The most important is CVE-2026-96951, a security feature bypass flaw in Windows that has been exploited in the wild. The post Microsoft Patches Record 1,413 Vulnerabilities, Including Exploited Windows Zero-Day appeared first on...
TechTrends Africa ·
Most cyber intrusions still begin with a person or a stolen credential, not a clever software exploit. The post Microsoft’s 2026 Digital Defense Report: Attackers Are Walking In Through Trusted Doors, and AI Agents Are the Next One...
TechCabal ·
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The Hacker News ·
Microsoft on Tuesday shattered its own Patch Tuesday record by shipping patches for a whopping 1,413 vulnerabilities, including one that it said has come under active exploitation. These include 1,102 flaws in Windows, 134 in Office, 61...
Ghacks Technology News ·
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 version 24H2 Home and Pro reached the end of updates on October 13, 2026, according to a new entry in the Windows release health message center. The October 2026 monthly security update is the...
Ghacks Technology News ·
Microsoft has formed Xbox Labs, a small team of game makers, engineers, and scientists that will turn emerging technology into products for Xbox players and developers, according to a memo from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma published on Xbox...
CSO Online Security ·
Microsoft released a record-shattering 1,407 CVEs to be plugged today on October Patch Tuesday, breaking the 2020 record of 1,261. The list was so long that its release was several hours later than the usual 1 p.m. Eastern drop time,...
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