Microsoft has begun rolling out Version 2409 of 365 Apps, featuring new data functions in Excel and improved permissions across Word and PowerPoint. Expect gradual deployment.
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Google has announced improvements for website permissions in Chrome. Starting with Chrome 116, users will be able to grant one-time permissions to tailor web capabilities to their likeness.
The UK government has banned TikTok from being used on government devices. It said the ban was a precautionary one as the app requires sensitive data permissions, and they could be misused.
Microsoft is testing "Privacy Auditing" for Windows 11 too. The platform appears to be a collection of settings that reveals access to sensitive hardware and controls their permissions.
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Google has highlighted several new machine learning-based capabilities coming to Chrome soon. These include autonomous blocking of permission prompts and automatic arrangement of the toolbar.
Android devices on version 6.0 or higher will begin receiving auto-resetting permissions from December. This will boost user's privacy and security. It will come to devices between December and March.
Android 12 may expand on Android 11's auto-permission revoke option by adding the ability to auto-hibernate and delete temporary cache files and such for apps that go unused for a long time.
Google has introduced a number of security and privacy-related changes in Android 11. Check out some of the new privacy features in Android 11 that are aimed at offering a better user experience.
Google has added a new 'Auto revoke permissions' feature in Android 11 DP3 that automatically revokes all permissions from apps not used in a while. The feature is disabled by default.
One of the latest Firefox Nightly builds now stops notification permissions being displayed by default. Users will now have to press the notification icon before they can allow notifications.
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Software engineers who attend Microsoft's annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference later this month could get their first taste of a new Windows user permissions model that could change the way thousands of programs are developed...
Date: 30 October 2002 Software: Windows 2000 Impact: Trojan Horse program execution Max Risk: Moderate On Windows 2000, the default permissions provide the Everyone group with Full access (Everyone:F)...
The Microsoft Exchange System Attendant is one of the core services in Microsoft Exchange. It performs a variety of functions related to the on-going maintenance of the Exchange system. To allow remote administration of an...
Many thanks must go to New Order for the heads up on this vunerability. A flaw in XP's hot keys could allow non-administrative users to execute Administrator owned applications which are...
