Microsoft will be enabling some DCOM protocol hardening changes by default with next month's Patch Tuesday. This may result in interoperability issues between networked client and server devices.
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Microsoft has published an advisory about a misconfiguration that led to its own, customer, and partner data being exposed. It has also called out security researchers for mishandling the disclosure.
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Google is working on a feature that will add another layer of security associated to autofilling of passwords. Microsoft Edge already has this functionality but it's not the default configuration.
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Google Workspace customers integrating Google Calendar and Exchange Online have been urged to make a configuration change before Microsoft disables an old authentication mechanism in October.
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Google Calendar now has a new option that allows you to filter out potentially spam invites by only displaying invites that come from "known senders", such as those in your contact list.
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Microsoft has announced a application policy change for customers, saying that it will now restrict the usage of Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros by default. Malicious actors often used it as an attack surface.
Microsoft will be migrating to a new SSO service for Office Add-ins on the web from February 7, 2022. As such, organizations using this facility should update their configuration soon.
38 million records from multiple companies including Ford, J.B. Hunt, and American Airlines were left exposed to the public internet due to a default configuration in Microsoft Power Apps portals.
Microsoft has announced that with Windows 10 version 1809 - which was made fully available in December 2018 -, users no longer need to "safely remove" their USB devices, thanks to new policies.
It appears that Google has disabled 4K video configurations in its YouTube app for smartphones and the newly-released Xbox One X, saying that the display resolution is currently capped at 1080p.
A few days prior to the official Indiegogo launch campaign, Eve has finally detailed the hardware configurations of its upcoming hybrid Windows 10 device, dubbed as the "Surface Killer" by many.
Microsoft Monday said development is complete on its System Center Configuration Manager 2007, a cornerstone in its model for managed IT systems, and that the management tool will ship in November. For users moving from...
The Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) MUI Packs are available for x86-based and ia64-based servers running Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Download: Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) MUI Pack...
Microsoft is releasing a configuration change for Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003, to address recent malicious attacks against Internet Explorer, also know as Download.Ject. Windows customers are encouraged to apply...
Found this whilst browsing Microsoft's site... The Microsoft Platform Support Reporting Utility facilitates the gathering of critical system and logging information used in troubleshooting support issues. Windows 2000, Windows NT,...
Microsoft has changed the internal configuration of its Xbox game console, a move intended to thwart hackers and lower manufacturing costs. Word of the changes began spreading on sites devoted Xbox hacking, with some...
Thanks Rancho for this one. ZoneAlarm is a free firewall, which is recommended again and again. However a firewall is only a useful safety measure for your "online privacy" if it is setup correctly. ZoneAlarm...
