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Microsoft thinking to drop ‘One Password’ idea for all its web services
We all know that American Tech giant Microsoft (MS) has inducted a new login policy almost two years ago which urges its service users to use a single password across multiple service accounts. For instance, a single username and password being used on Skype can be used on other services owned by Microsoft like OneDrive, […]
Microsoft is officially listening to the Skype calls of its customers
Skype an online app of Microsoft (MS) which offers audio and video communication through the internet is in news for all wrong reasons these days. After Google and Amazon, American software giant Microsoft has admitted that the Skype calls of its customers are being heard by a group of contractors hired by MS specifically for […]
Cybersecurity News trending on Google
1) According to a survey, Small and Medium Scale Businesses (SMBs) in the UK are being subjected to over 10,000 cyberattacks per day which could cost them £4.5 billion on an annual note. The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) survey which included SMBs from Scotland says that over 1 million businesses operating across the UK […]
US Tech Giants follows the new standard to allow users to access health data with ease
Technology giants like Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have joined hands to provide online consumers easier access to their medical records by joining a new data model at a White House Blue Button Developers Conference recently. CARIN Blue Button API is the data model which offers a specific standard to share health data with ease […]
Russia, Iran, North Korea target Microsoft customers with Cyber Attacks
Microsoft has released an official statement yesterday saying that it has notified more than 10,000 of its customers that they were being targeted by cyberattacks from hackers hailing from Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Tom Burt, the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft has confirmed the news in a statement released yesterday and said that 85% […]
Amazon and Microsoft battle it out over a US Military Cloud
Tech Giants Amazon and Microsoft are said to be battling for an opportunity to bag a $10 billion project with regards to a US Military Cloud building architecture. Formally called as Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure or shortly called as JEDI, this military intelligence cloud project is said to help the law enforcement in processing vast […]
Microsoft bans employees from using these apps for Security reasons
Microsoft has already banned the use of rival apps and services from Google and Amazon. Now it seems to have extended the list by adding a few early this month. According to a report being circulated internally by Microsoft, the Redmond giant has banned the use of apps such as the free version of slack […]
Microsoft encourages hacking its cloud services with ‘Safe Harbor’
American tech giant Microsoft Corporation has released a press statement yesterday encouraging hackers to hack into its Azure cloud. Technically speaking, the company wants to encourage security hackers to find vulnerabilities in its cloud services platform as a part of the ‘Safe Harbor’ initiative. “From the past few years, white hat hackers have been regularly […]
Microsoft to put an end to Password change
As the change of passwords on a regular note could actually put online users into risk, tech giants like Microsoft are thinking to put an end to such usage. The American software giant has, in fact, started the initiative by secretly removing ‘password expiration’ theory where old passwords are no longer eligible for reuse after […]
How to prevent Windows 10 from invading your privacy
We all know that the release of Windows 10 Operating System wasn’t received well by users of Microsoft and the main reason for such reaction was due to the fact that it invades the user’s privacy. For this reason, many in the technology world postponed its use and upgrade for many years. Now, to those […]
