News & Updates
Microsoft adopts data loss prevention features in Microsoft Teams
A rapid uptake in Microsoft Teams adoption across Microsoft over the past year raised concerns among the Information Protection group around security. But extending existing SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange security policies to the Teams environment using new data loss prevention (DLP) features proved straightforward with familiar tools and interfaces such as Microsoft 365 Activity explorer and Audit logs.
Stay organized in Outlook Web with a side-by-side view of your emails, calendar, and tasks
Context switching comes with a loss of efficiency. Every time you move between your emails, calendar, and tasks, you lose productive time returning back to where you were. In order to help you be more productive and save your time, Microsoft is bringing you a side-by-side view of your mail, calendar, and tasks in Outlook Web as you navigate through your work.
Inside the Market for Cookies That Lets Hackers Pretend to Be You
Hackers stole a wealth of data from game publishing giant Electronic Arts, including source code for the Frostbite engine and FIFA 21 game. The hackers said they did this, in part, by purchasing a cookie for $10 that let them log into an EA Slack account, and then tricking EA's IT support into granting access to the company's internal network.
Kaseya's Staff Sounded the Alarm About Security Flaws for Years Before Ransomware Attack
Employees warned Kaseya’s higher-ups for years about critical security flaws in its software but their concerns were brushed off, former workers told Bloomberg. Several staffers quit in frustration or were fired after repeatedly sounding the alarm about failings in the IT firm’s cybersecurity practices.
iOS zero-day let SolarWinds hackers compromise fully updated iPhones
The Russian state hackers who orchestrated the SolarWinds suply chain attack last year exploited an iOS zero-day as part of a separate malicious email campaign aimed at stealing Web authentication credentials from Western European Governments, according to Google and Microsoft.
Introducing a new era of hybrid personal computing: the Windows 365 Cloud PC
Today we’re excited to announce Windows 365, a cloud service that introduces a new way to experience Windows 10 or Windows 11 (when it’s generally available later this calendar year). Windows 365 takes the operating system to the Microsoft Cloud, securely streaming the full Windows experience—including all your apps, data, and settings—to your personal or corporate devices. This approach creates a fully new personal computing category, specifically for the hybrid world: the Cloud PC.
Kaseya did not pay ransom in attack
Kaseya recently announced that it obtained a computer key to unlock the files of hundreds of companies. Saying it got the universal decryptor key from a “trusted third party” and has validated that it works.