Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) An emergency patch Microsoft issued on Tuesday fails to fully fix a critical security vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows that allows attackers to take control of infected systems and run code of their choice, researchers said. The threat, colloquially known as PrintNightmare, stems from bugs in the Windows print […]
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A dissolved truce between Microsoft and Google, alongside federal antitrust concerns around Amazon, Apple and Facebook, signals that tech firms are gearing up to fend off monopoly allegations. Read More
Enlarge (credit: Halil Sagirkaya / Anadolu Agency) After years of relative calm, Google and Microsoft are tossing out their ceasefire, a move that—perhaps ironically—could bring each company additional antitrust scrutiny. The non-aggression pact, signed five years ago, let the two companies set aside their numerous lawsuits. It also created a process by which they could […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft gave its digital imprimatur to a rootkit that decrypted encrypted communications and sent them to attacker-controlled servers, the company and outside researchers said. The blunder allowed the malware to be installed on Windows machines without users receiving a security warning or having to take additional steps. For the past 13 […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The nation-state hackers who orchestrated the SolarWinds supply chain attack compromised a Microsoft worker’s computer and used the access to launch targeted attacks against company customers, Microsoft said in a terse statement published late on a Friday afternoon. The hacking group also compromised three entities using password-spraying and brute-force techniques, which […]
Microsoft claims that “the new Windows is available on the widest array of devices,” but the Internet had a minor panic attack when requirements were outlined yesterday. [credit: Microsoft ] Since Microsoft’s announcement of Windows 11 yesterday, one concern has reverberated around the Web more loudly than any other—what’s this about a Trusted Platform Module […]
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Enlarge / The latest Windows focuses heavily on improved task management, prettier UI, and a much more ambitious Microsoft Store. (credit: Microsoft) Earlier this morning, we got our first official look at Windows 11 by way of Microsoft’s What’s New For Windows event. The new OS offers several significant, functional changes to what we’ve become […]
Microsoft has mostly managed to escape the antitrust scrutiny leveled at its Big Tech peers, like Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook. Why? Read More