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Cybersecurity news headlines trending on Google
The Navy Exchange Service‘s sale of Lenovo laptops at steep discounts and duty-free rates has raised concerns among U.S. lawmakers due to the manufacturer’s ties to the People’s Republic of China. There are apprehensions that these laptops could potentially contain pre-installed malware aimed at spying on users in Western countries. While currently, this is only […]
Microsoft 38TB AI Data Leak details
In July 2020, Microsoft (MS) launched its dedicated Artificial Intelligence (AI) research division, initially envisioned to harness vast datasets for its search engine. The venture seemed promising, but a recent revelation by security researchers from WIZ serves as a stark reminder that even tech giants can stumble when it comes to safeguarding user data. The […]
Microsoft and Samsung launch Advanced Mobile Security Solution
Microsoft and Samsung Technology have joined forces to enhance mobile device security for enterprises. This collaboration has resulted in the world’s first mobile hardware-based device attestation, which verifies the identity and integrity of the device. In simpler terms, an attestation solution means a device that can authenticate another device’s trusted state. This helps security administrators […]
Microsoft offers free cloud security logs after CISA recommend
Microsoft will from this coming September (2023) offer cloud security logs to all its customer, a service that was reserved to premium customers, till date. The announcement came just after the revelation made by Reuters about a possible Chinese hack into the MS Office 365 email government servers of the United States, that could have […]
Cyber Attack news headlines trending on Google
Microsoft has hit the news headlines for repelling a cyber attack targeting government servers from Western Europe. The attack is suspected to have launched by hackers from the Chinese nation and was done to siphon confidential information from email accounts. According to a statement released by the technology giant, the attack started on May 15th, […]
Microsoft to pay $20m penalty for collecting children info without consent
Microsoft has made an official announcement that it will pay a $20m penalty to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as it was found guilty of collecting children info via gaming consoles without their valid consent. Digging deep into the context, a lawsuit was slapped against the technology giant for collecting information of children playing […]
Anonymous Sudan launched Cyber Attack on Microsoft Outlook
Outlook.com users have been suffering with intermittent outages from yesterday and news is out that the disruption was caused because of a DDoS cyber attack launched by a hacking group named ‘Anonymous Sudan’. Microsoft acknowledged the outage as true, but failed to label it as a state funded attack. How-ever, it issued a statement that […]
Microsoft VMs hijacked in cloud Cyber Attack
A threat actor with a history of targeting Microsoft servers has recently gained control over virtual machines (VMs) and installed third-party remote management software within clients’ cloud environments. The Mandiant Intelligence team has identified this actor, known as UNC3844, evading security software detections on Azure cloud platforms. Their primary objective is to exploit cloud storage […]
Will you entrust cybersecurity to AI as per Microsoft
OpenAI-developed conversational AI ChatGPT is hitting the news headlines almost daily, and as it is now a part of Microsoft, the software giant is also getting a lot of credit for devising such a tool that can do anything and everything…well, almost! Microsoft, which is busy integrating the services of the chatbot into its software […]
Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerability makes lawyers pay $200k as a settlement
In 2021, the LockBit Ransomware group breached the servers of New York-based law firm HPMB and stole sensitive information from one of its healthcare-related clients. The stolen data included names, DOBs, social security numbers, driving license details, biometric information of 114,979 individuals, and court-related documents in PDF form. A security analysis done in April 2022 […]
