"AccountGuard is a service Microsoft extends to pretty much anyone ... signed up for Office 365."
Great! That means they are protected by AccountGuard for at least 321* days a year!
*or some number that is definitely always lower than 365.
American tech giant Microsoft revealed this morning it has detected a wave of attacks against European democratic institutions as miscreants continue malware insertion attempts. Helpfully coinciding with the announcement that Microsoft, staunch defender of all things democratic, would be rolling out its AccountGuard service, …
The reality is likely a little more prosaic.
:-) Oh please, El Regers know the polar opposite attracts a wholly other different view on the nature and substance of existence. The True Essence of Being is Every Search for the One with Nothing to Lose and Everything to Gain. With Unfounded Fears of Failure Gone and MIA/AWOL, Success is Virtually Guaranteed.
I think you might like to prepare yourselves for a reality, QuITe Surreal, .... and into which All are Cordially Invited to be Generously Received for Welcoming.
Red Hot Line News there, El Reg, that you would like to think the authorities would be warning and making folk aware of. It is not as if they haven't been directly contacted to be made aware of the Live Operational Virtual Environment.
If one were to wonder, One wonders whether they be unable or just unwilling to reply and engage. And be that as a result of ignorance and fear of the hitherto unknown?
The ‘Great Game’ would be all well and good if it came with an instruction book, as opposed to an uneven keel amFM, and likewise, when the glaring inequality of players starts all with suffiecient reserves, and others with the inability to pass go ...
The ‘Great Game’ would be all well and good if it came with an instruction book, as opposed to an uneven keel amFM, and likewise, when the glaring inequality of players starts all with suffiecient reserves, and others with the inability to pass go ... ... Cliff Thorburn
That's as a Craving for Level Playing Fields, CT. You're landed in the right space place here. That's wonderfully convenient is it not.
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Care to Lead in Further Investigation of that Current Present Phenomenon ...... Remote Virtual Command Control for Worthy AIMastering and Almighty Wielding alike. ?
A Great Offer to Proffer Letter, methinks.
*deep sigh*
After driver deliverables offering a mixed bag of manure amFM, it would be far simpler just to agree a conclusion to what has become a game of frustration as opposed to a joyful game of life.
The objective of said game would be a start, in the same way you sell Mayfair to your granny so she can use her Park Lane instead of going round the board again, knowing she would like to spend those precious years of life actually ‘living’
Monopoly bringing me nicely to the legal term ‘Loss of Chance’, a term swivelled in the international courts of redacted but retained paper particulars, journaling the near decade of duelling dragons, threats of deportation, destitution, deliberation, oh the tangled webs others do weave, when simply being friends would do far better than to deceive :-)
Microsoft has added a certification to augment the tired eyes and haunted expressions of Exchange support engineers.
The "Microsoft 365 Certified: Exchange Online Support Engineer Specialty certification" was unveiled yesterday and requires you to pass the "MS-220: Troubleshooting Microsoft Exchange Online" exam.
Microsoft has indefinitely postponed the date on which its Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs) will be required to sell software and services licences on new terms.
Those new terms are delivered under the banner of the New Commerce Experience (NCE). NCE is intended to make perpetual licences a thing of the past and prioritizes fixed-term subscriptions to cloudy products. Paying month-to-month is more expensive than signing up for longer-term deals under NCE, which also packs substantial price rises for many Microsoft products.
Channel-centric analyst firm Canalys unsurprisingly rates NCE as better for Microsoft than for customers or partners.
Updated Two security vendors – Orca Security and Tenable – have accused Microsoft of unnecessarily putting customers' data and cloud environments at risk by taking far too long to fix critical vulnerabilities in Azure.
In a blog published today, Orca Security researcher Tzah Pahima claimed it took Microsoft several months to fully resolve a security flaw in Azure's Synapse Analytics that he discovered in January.
And in a separate blog published on Monday, Tenable CEO Amit Yoran called out Redmond for its lack of response to – and transparency around – two other vulnerabilities that could be exploited by anyone using Azure Synapse.
The US government is pushing federal agencies and private corporations to adopt the Modern Authentication method in Exchange Online before Microsoft starts shutting down Basic Authentication from the first day of October.
In an advisory [PDF] this week, Uncle Sam's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) noted that while federal executive civilian branch (FCEB) agencies – which includes such organizations as the Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, and such departments as Homeland Security, Justice, Treasury, and State – are required to make the change, all organizations should make the switch from Basic Authentication.
"Federal agencies should determine their use of Basic Auth and migrate users and applications to Modern Auth," CISA wrote. "After completing the migration to Modern Auth, agencies should block Basic Auth."
Updated Microsoft's latest set of Windows patches are causing problems for users.
Windows 10 and 11 are affected, with both experiencing similar issues (although the latter seems to be suffering a little more).
KB5014697, released on June 14 for Windows 11, addresses a number of issues, but the known issues list has also been growing. Some .NET Framework 3.5 apps might fail to open (if using Windows Communication Foundation or Windows Workflow component) and the Wi-Fi hotspot features appears broken.
Microsoft is flagging up a security hole in its Service Fabric technology when using containerized Linux workloads, and urged customers to upgrade their clusters to the most recent release.
The flaw is tracked as CVE-2022-30137, an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in Microsoft's Service Fabric. An attacker would need read/write access to the cluster as well as the ability to execute code within a Linux container granted access to the Service Fabric runtime in order to wreak havoc.
Through a compromised container, for instance, a miscreant could gain control of the resource's host Service Fabric node and potentially the entire cluster.
Jeffrey Snover's lengthy and occasionally controversial term at Microsoft is to come to an end this week, as the PowerShell inventor sets off for pastures new after more than two decades at the Windows giant.
Microsoft has pledged to clamp down on access to AI tools designed to predict emotions, gender, and age from images, and will restrict the usage of its facial recognition and generative audio models in Azure.
The Windows giant made the promise on Tuesday while also sharing its so-called Responsible AI Standard, a document [PDF] in which the US corporation vowed to minimize any harm inflicted by its machine-learning software. This pledge included assurances that the biz will assess the impact of its technologies, document models' data and capabilities, and enforce stricter use guidelines.
This is needed because – and let's just check the notes here – there are apparently not enough laws yet regulating machine-learning technology use. Thus, in the absence of this legislation, Microsoft will just have to force itself to do the right thing.
Microsoft is extending the Defender brand with a version aimed at families and individuals.
"Defender" has been the company's name of choice for its anti-malware platform for years. Microsoft Defender for individuals, available for Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers, is a cross-platform application, encompassing macOS, iOS, and Android devices and extending "the protection already built into Windows Security beyond your PC."
The system comprises a dashboard showing the status of linked devices as well as alerts and suggestions.
Desktop Tourism My 20-year-old son is an aspiring athlete who spends a lot of time in the gym and thinks nothing of lifting 100 kilograms in various directions. So I was a little surprised when I handed him Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Studio and he declared it uncomfortably heavy.
At 1.8kg it's certainly not among today's lighter laptops. That matters, because the device's big design selling point is a split along the rear of its screen that lets it sit at an angle that covers the keyboard and places its touch-sensitive surface in a comfortable position for prodding with a pen. The screen can also fold completely flat to allow the laptop to serve as a tablet.
Below is a .GIF to show that all in action.
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