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Microsoft bans common passwords

If you’re using the Microsoft Account service to sign into the various services offered by the company, and you tried to set up a too commonly used password, you have …

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Microsoft releases eight critical updates

Microsoft has released its May patch updates and it was a rather large deployment with 16 total updates this month. The critical versus important updates were split down the …

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Exploit kits are the greatest danger for Windows users

Exploit kits are how most malware gets on victims’ computers and, according to Microsoft, encounters with exploit kits increased by more than a third from 3Q15 to 4Q15. …

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Microsoft sues US govt for right to tell users when their data is accessed by feds

Microsoft has filed a new lawsuit against the US government, asking the court to permit them to alert their users when their online accounts and the data in them has been …

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Microsoft patches Badlock, but doesn’t call it critical

Microsoft just released several security bulletins, with six marked as critical and seven categorized as important. The biggest surprise (or disguise) came in the patch marked …

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Microsoft plugs online services account hijacking vulnerability

London-based security researcher and bug hunter Jack Whitton has discovered a serious cross-site request forgery flaw affecting Microsoft’s authentication system for …

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How to block malicious macros for good?

Microsoft is finally doing something about the increasing threat of malicious macros: it has added a new feature in Office 2016 that will block macros from loading in certain …

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Microsoft ends support for Windows 8, IE8 through 10: What does this mean for you?

Slowly but surely, Microsoft is pushing users towards Windows 10 and its new browser, Microsoft Edge. The way through this is by stop providing technical support and security …

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Microsoft will stop trusting certificates from 20 Certificate Authorities

Starting on January 2016, Microsoft’s Trusted Root Certificate Program will no longer include twenty currently trusted CAs and will remove their root certificates …

Microsoft kills many critical flaws, some 0-days, un-trusts one wildcard cert

For this December Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released twelve security bulletins, eight of which have been rated critical.Those refer to the cumulative security updates for …

Microsoft warns of imminent end of support for all but the latest Internet Explorer versions

Windows users who still prefer Internet Explorer to all other browsers have been urged by Microsoft to update to the latest (and last) version of the browser (v11), as the …

Windows machines stop trusting Dell’s two unconstrained root CA certs

Microsoft has updated the Certificate Trust list for all supported releases of Microsoft Windows so that the two digital certificates (complete with inadvertently disclosed …

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