U.S. Sanctions Imposed on Positive Technologies and Others for Russian Spying
The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Thursday announced sanctions on Russia for its cyberactivities, along with six organizations for enabling it, including the well-known security solutions firm Positive Technologies.
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Thu, Apr 15 2021
U.S. Security Agencies Warn Russia Actively Exploiting 5 Software Security Flaws
U.S. government security agencies on Thursday issued a joint advisory (PDF) regarding five software security vulnerabilities that are currently getting exploited by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).
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Thu, Apr 15 2021
Microsoft Software and Services Switching to SHA-2 Security Next Month
Microsoft plans to stop trusting Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA-1) certificates next month for "all major Microsoft processes and services," according to a Wednesday announcement.
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Wed, Apr 14 2021
FBI Reached into Exchange Servers To Delete Hafnium Webshells
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has deleted Webshells on Hafnium-compromised Exchange Server installations across the country, and is now sending notices to victim organizations, according to a Tuesday announcement.
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Wed, Apr 14 2021
April Microsoft Security Patches Released, Bringing More Critical Exchange Server Fixes
Microsoft released security updates for 114 common vulnerabilities and exposures in its software products, while also publishing a supplementary note urging organizations to apply the new April Exchange Server "Critical" patches "as soon as possible."
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Tue, Apr 13 2021
Microsoft Data Loss Prevention Alerts Dashboard Now Generally Available
Microsoft has commercially released its Data Loss Prevention Alerts Dashboard, which is used for viewing data loss prevention (DLP) policy violations in organizations, per a Monday announcement.
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Tue, Apr 13 2021
IT Pros To Get Visual Studio Administrator Updates This Month
Microsoft soon will let IT pros apply updates to installed Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio 2019 products using so-called "administrator updates," according to a Thursday announcement.
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Fri, Apr 09 2021
Microsoft Releases Preview of 64-Bit OneDrive Client for Windows Systems
Microsoft announced on Thursday that a 64-bit OneDrive storage service sync client at the preview stage is now available for Windows 10 systems with x64-based processors.
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Thu, Apr 08 2021
Microsoft Shows Off Its First Azure Orbital Ground Station
Microsoft is advancing its Azure Space efforts by starting to add Azure Orbital "ground station as a service" units to its datacenters, according to a Tuesday announcement.
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Wed, Apr 07 2021
Microsoft Touts Production Use of New Datacenter Liquid Cooling Solution
Microsoft is experimenting with two-phase liquid immersion cooling tanks, used to run datacenter workloads.
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Tue, Apr 06 2021
