Cyber Security and Information Systems Information Analysis Center
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a set of best practices designed to help organizations to mitigate risks and vulnerabilities associated with migrating their email services to Microsoft Office 365. Read More
Microsoft isn't doing away with its password-expiration policies across the board, but the blog post makes the company's stance clear: expiring passwords does little good. Read More
Microsoft has admitted that its Outlook.com security breach was worse than the company initially revealed. Read More
Microsoft has been collaborating with researchers linked to a Chinese military-backed university on artificial intelligence, elevating concerns that US firms are contributing to China's high-tech surveillance and censorship apparatus. Read More
Microsoft announced its new cloud-based Microsoft Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Threat Experts solutions designed to allow security professionals to react faster and provide adequate responses during cyber attacks. Read More
Microsoft Exchange 2013 and newer versions are vulnerable to a privilege escalation attack that gives anyone with a mailbox a way to gain domain administrator rights at potentially 90% of organizations running Active Directory and Exchange, according to a security researcher. Read More
Researchers at Embedi, a firm specializing in security for embedded devices, today released a report on a 17-year-old remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Office, which was patched today. They claim it has not been patched and Microsoft did not know it existed. Read More
The database contained descriptions of critical and unfixed vulnerabilities in some of the most widely used software in the world, including the Windows operating system. Spies for governments around the globe and other hackers covet such information because it shows them how to create tools for electronic break-ins. The Microsoft flaws were fixed likely Read More
Macro-based Microsoft Office malware is a go-to tactic for aspiring cybercriminals because it's reliable and effective. Since macros remain an integral part of Word documents, many companies don't disable them by default, and users often open .doc attachments. But with enterprise IT on the war path for signs of any macro malware attack, criminals are Read More
Microsoft has unleashed its September Patch Tuesday bug fix bonanza, patching 82 flaws in total. Among the 82 fixes, 26 of which have been rated 'critical', includes a patch for an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability tied to Microsoft's .NET framework. Read More
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