by Surur
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A massive trove in 32 terabytes of internal Microsoft source code, builds and tools have leaked onto the internet, downloadable by all and sundry, The Register reports the files, Microsoft’s Shared Source Kit, appears to ha...
by Surur
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In a blog post, and without ever naming the Russian antivirus company, Microsoft has posted a defence of their Windows Defender practices which has been a source of anti-trust complaint by Kaspersky at various European courts. Eug...
by Pradeep
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Microsoft Ventures has invested in Trusona, a leader in simply secure identity authentication. Microsoft took part in Trusona’s $10 million Series B funding round led by investor Kleiner Perkins. Trusona offers a range of so...
by Surur
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Microsoft received a lot of criticism after releasing a patch for Windows XP for the EternalBlue exploit well after releasing it for Windows 7, 8 and Windows 10 and well after the WannaCry attack started. It seems Microsoft has l...
by Surur
2 weeks
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Powerpoint, the world’s most popular presentation software has been accused of killing critical thinking, causing untold economic damage by wasting productive time and even killing whole businesses. Now in its latest trick, ...
by Surur
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Microsoft has announced their intention to purchase Hexadite, a company delivering agentless, automatic incident investigation and remediation solutions. Hexadite uses artificial intelligence to investigate security alerts and r...
by Surur
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There were two Windows operating systems largely immune to the recent Wannacry cyber attack. The first, Windows XP, was largely spared due to a bug in the Wannacry code, and the second, Windows 10, had more advanced defences than ...
by Surur
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Microsoft has quietly pushed out another fix for their virus scanning engine in Windows Defender, the MsMpEng malware protection engine. Just like the last “crazy bad” vulnerability, this one was also discovered by Goo...
by Surur
4 weeks
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Despite some pundits blaming Microsoft for the recent cyber attacks on their old operating systems, many investors have seen it as a likely source of a windfall for Microsoft, as companies and consumers who have long held out on u...
by Surur
4 weeks
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A new version of an old bug has just been discovered which can bring any Windows system earlier than Windows 10 to its knees, simply by loading a malformed URL, which of course may be found on a malicious website, in email or load...
by Pradeep
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Last month, Calcalist reported that Microsoft is planning to acquire Cloudyn, an Israel-based startup offering multi-cloud monitoring and optimization solution. While Microsoft has not yet officially confirmed this news, Calcalist...
by Surur
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In these days of fanciful accusations of collusion, conspiracy and even treason, the only reason we give these ideas any credence is due to the credibility of the esteem journalistic institutions who proclaim them, who have a rep...