November Microsoft News Today

Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week in Review edition for the week ending Friday April 5th, 2024. From Toronto, I'm Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. In a few minutes Terry Cutler, head of Cyology Labs will be here to discuss some of the headlines

Microsoft deal, biotech project among high points in 2023 for state agency.

Microsoft is starting to block third-party Xbox controllers, giving users two weeks to find something else for their Series X|S

Activision increased the representation of women and non-binary by 2 percentage points from November 2021 to December 2022, according to data shared with CNBC.

Activision Blizzard failed to increase its representation of women in the first quarter of 2022, according to a diversity report it released Thursday.

Microsoft's recent Patch Tuesday addressed some Exchange Server vulnerabilities, but other steps might be needed to fully secure it.

Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week in Review edition for the week ending Friday, January 6th, 2023. From Toronto, I'm Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. In a few minutes David Shipley of Beauceron Security will join me to discuss recent news. But first here are some of the headlines

Chat participants will see each others' social network profiles from March

Next step in Redmonds complete virtualization stack with Linux Tim Anderson Wed 17 Feb 2021 // 15:45 UTC Share Copy Patches submitted by Microsoft for the next version of the Linux kernel, 5.12, add the ability to boot the OS as the root partition on its Hyper-V hypervisor. The new "hyperv-next" patches follow an RFC last September stating that the company "wants to create a complete virtualization stack with Linux and Microsoft Hypervisor." In November Microsoft added a...

National Crime Agency nabbed network that stole money, Bitcoin, personal data Paul Kunert Wed 10 Feb 2021 // 16:15 UTC Share Copy Brit cops have cuffed eight men in England and Scotland amid a probe into SIM-swapping attacks on high-profile US targets – including sports stars, musicians, and "influencers" – that had money and personal data stolen. The suspects, aged between 18 and 26, were nabbed in an operation co-ordinated by Police Scotland, the Metropolitan Polic...