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Windows 10 Secured-Core PCs Can Block Driver-Abusing Malware

Microsoft says that Windows 10 Secured-core PCs can successfully defend their users against malware designed to take advantage of driver security flaws to disable security solutions. […]

16 Mar

Windows 10 2004 to Upgrade WSL2 Linux Kernels via Windows Update

Microsoft has announced that the upcoming Windows 10 2004 release will also include Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) whose Linux kernel will be kept updated via Windows Update. […]

15 Mar

Xbox Live and Support.xbox.com Experiencing an Outage

Microsoft is currently experiencing an outage where some users are unable to login to Xbox Live, have issues with match making, and are unable to access support.xbox.com. […]

14 Mar

Research Finds Microsoft Edge Has Privacy-Invading Telemetry

While Microsoft Edge shares the same source code as the popular Chrome browser, it offers better privacy control for users. New research, though, indicates that it may have more privacy-invading telemetry than other browsers. […]

13 Mar

Microsoft Unveils New Windows 10 Automatic Driver Update Plan

Microsoft has unveiled a new plan for the delivery of automatic driver updates that they hope will reduce the number of reliability issues users experience in Windows 10. […]

12 Mar

Office 365 ATP To Block Email Domains That Fail Authentication

Microsoft is working on including a new Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) feature that would block email sender domains automatically if they fail DMARC authentication as part of an effort to make Office 365 ATP secure by default. […]

11 Mar

Microsoft Releases the March 2020 Security Updates for Office

Microsoft released the March 2020 Office security updates on March 10, 2020, with a total of 13 security updates and 5 cumulative updates for 6 different products, with 12 of them patching bugs allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely after exploitation. […]

10 Mar

Microsoft Leaks Info on Wormable Windows SMBv3 CVE-2020-0796 Flaw

Microsoft leaked info on a security update for a ‘wormable’ pre-auth remote code execution vulnerability found in the Server Message Block 3.0 (SMBv3) network communication protocol that reportedly should have been disclosed as part of this month’s Patch Tuesday. […]

08 Mar

Google Stops Issuing Security Warnings About Microsoft Edge

Google has toned down its rhetoric by no longer displaying a security warning on its extension store to Microsoft Edge users that tells them to switch to Chrome to be more secure. […]

07 Mar

How to Use Google Chrome Extensions and Themes in Microsoft Edge

Microsoft’s new Edge browser is now available and it comes with an add-on store where you can find Microsoft-approved extensions. As Edge is built on the same Chromium code base, it can also access the Chrome Web Store. […]

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