gwengoat | Getty Images reader comments 109 with 42 posters participating Share this story Months before the Russian invasion, a team of Americans fanned out across Ukraine looking for a very specific kind of threat. Some team members were soldiers with the US Army’s Cyber Command. Others were civilian contractors and some employees of American… Read More »
Aurich Lawson reader comments 13 with 13 posters participating Share this story Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday updates for Windows are generally meant to fix problems, but that isn’t how it always goes. January’s updates, released last week, caused a handful of problems for businesses in particular. The most serious, especially for people still dealing with… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 55 with 35 posters participating Share this story Over the past few months, geopolitical tensions have escalated as Russia amassed tens of thousands of troops along Ukraine’s border and made subtle but far-reaching threats if Ukraine and NATO don’t agree to Kremlin demands. Now, a similar dispute is playing out in… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 131 with 92 posters participating, including story author Share this story Microsoft has released a fix for a harebrained Exchange Server bug that shut down on-premises mail delivery around the world just as clocks were chiming in the new year. The mass disruption stemmed from a date check failure in Exchange… Read More »
Enlarge / Computer chip with Chinese flag, 3d conceptual illustration. reader comments 66 with 40 posters participating Share this story Microsoft said it has seized control of servers that a China-based hacking group was using to compromise targets that align with that country’s geopolitical interests. The hacking group, which Microsoft has dubbed Nickel, has been… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 204 with 153 posters participating Share this story Microsoft is taking a lot of flak for planning to integrate a short-term financing app into the company’s Edge browser. The app would allow users to make purchases immediately and pay for them at a future date. In recent years, Edge has built… Read More »
Xbox has been teasing the release of a mini-fridge modeled after the Xbox Series X for some time. The product finally launched on Tuesday and immediately sold out. According to Xbox’s Aaron Greenberg, though, more are on the way. RELATED: Microsoft Gives Update on Xbox Mini Fridge Release Window Replying to some fans on Twitter, Greenberg… Read More »
Starfield is slated to come out on November 11, 2022, and while we don’t know much about it yet, we now know it will at least have a lot of dialogue. It will apparently have around two-and-a-half times more dialogue than Skyrim, a notoriously large game, and even more than Fallout 4. As shown by… Read More »
reader comments 20 with 16 posters participating Share this story A public proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has been released for the Microsoft Azure Active Directory credentials brute-forcing flaw discovered by Secureworks and first reported by Ars. The exploit enables anyone to perform both username enumeration and password brute-forcing on vulnerable Azure servers. Although Microsoft had initially… Read More »
reader comments 8 with 8 posters participating Share this story Imagine having unlimited attempts to guess someone’s username and password without getting caught. That would make an ideal scenario for a stealthy threat actor—leaving server admins with little to no visibility into the attacker’s actions, let alone the possibility of blocking them. A newly discovered… Read More »