Microsoft kicked off its inaugural Hackfest, a four-day event – and the first of its kind in the Gulf region – where customers from both, public and private sector were invited to work with Microsoft’s engineers and data scientists to solve real-world problems using AI tools. Taking place at theRead More…
Microsoft believes the Meltdown and Spectre fixes will slow down servers drastically and reduce the performance of personal computers as well. In a blog post, the firm suggested that the slowdowns from the Meltdown and Spectre fixes could be a lot more extensive than Intel suggested previously. Read More…
Security researchers at ESET, in collaboration with Microsoft and law enforcement agencies – the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Interpol, Europol, and other stakeholders in cybersecurity – have today taken down a major botnet operation known as Gamarue. It was detected by ESET as Win32/TrojanDownloader.Wauchos, which has been infecting victimsRead More…
Microsoft today hosted the second edition of its CISO Executive Series, designed to support chief information security officers in their efforts against the ever-changing threat landscape. The event, this year titled “A Hacker’s Guide to Security Strategy”, was held at the Burj Al Arab, Dubai, and allowed security professionals toRead More…
Microsoft is extending Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) across even more platforms. As part of a partnership with Bitdefender, Lookout, and Ziften, Windows Defender ATP will soon be able to detect threats across macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. For businesses that employ a number of different devices, this willRead More…
The Petya ransomware was designed to lock files on the infected computer and demand payment from victims to get their files unlocked. Following the launch of the Petya ransomware attack around the world last week, Microsoft’s telemetry data has now shed some light on the scale of the worm-able ransomwareRead More…
Guest written by Greg Wiseman, senior security researcher at Rapid7 about this month’s Microsoft patches, which were released last tuesday This month sees another spate of critical fixes from Microsoft, including patches for a number of Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities. Two of these are already known to be exploitedRead More…
Microsoft released patches to fix 94 vulnerabilities out of which 27 fix remote code execution issues which can allow an attacker to remotely take control of victim machines. This is a massive update and fixes more than double the number of vulnerabilities as compared to the last two months. MicrosoftRead More…
