Microsoft 365 Web Apps To Get Account Switching Support Next Month

Microsoft is working on a new feature that will bring account switching support for Microsoft 365 web apps. The company announced in a message on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center that this update will allow users to seamlessly switch between multiple personal and work accounts in the same browser. Currently, Microsoft 365 web apps do […] Continue reading Microsoft 365 Web Apps To Get Account Switching Support Next Month

Get Lifetime Access To Microsoft Office 2021 For Just $56

Whether you’re starting a new business venture and need Microsoft Office’s help or you just want to get better organized in your personal life, it’s a good time to take advantage of this limited-time deal. Continue reading Get Lifetime Access To Microsoft Office 2021 For Just $56

Microsoft Office Apps to Block All Downloaded VBA Macros By Default

Microsoft is finally getting ready to block Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros downloaded from the internet by default in several Office apps. The Redmond giant has already started restricting Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros, and this change will now impact all VBA macros in Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Access, and Excel files. By default, Microsoft Office […] Continue reading Microsoft Office Apps to Block All Downloaded VBA Macros By Default

Patch Tuesday January 2022 – Wormable Bug in Windows and a Critical Bug in Exchange Server Get Fixes

Microsoft patches a wormable bug in http.sys in Windows and Windows Server. There are also fixes for three remote code execution vulnerabilities in Exchange Server. And Adobe releases fixes for 26 flaws in Acrobat and Reader. So, let’s get started! Windows and Windows Server This month there are fixes for six zero-days in Windows and […] Continue reading Patch Tuesday January 2022 – Wormable Bug in Windows and a Critical Bug in Exchange Server Get Fixes

Patch Tuesday November 2021 – Microsoft Patches Windows RDP Zero-Day and Exchange RCE

Patch Tuesday in November 2021 sees Microsoft release patches to address 55 CVEs, including fixes for 6 zero-day bugs. There are updates for products including Windows, Windows Server, Office, Exchange Server, Active Directory, Microsoft Dynamics, Hyper-V, and Azure Real Time Operating System (RTOS), which is ThreadX RTOS, an embedded real-time operating system that Microsoft purchased […] Continue reading Patch Tuesday November 2021 – Microsoft Patches Windows RDP Zero-Day and Exchange RCE

Microsoft Provides Temporary Fix for Office 365 Zero-Day

September 7th, Microsoft released a security advisory for a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2021-40444) in Microsoft MSHTML, the rendering engine that Office apps use in Windows to display web content. Microsoft says that it is investigating reports of targeted attacks that try to exploit the MSHTML flaw using specially designed Microsoft Office files. The announcement […] Continue reading Microsoft Provides Temporary Fix for Office 365 Zero-Day

Cyberattacks Use Office 365 to Target Supply Chain

Malicious actors have a history of trying to compromise users’ Office 365 accounts. By doing so, they can tunnel into a network and use their access to steal sensitive information. But they need not stop there. They can also single out other entities with which the target does business for supply chain cyberattacks. Office-Related Cyberattacks […]

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Microsoft is discontinuing its Office apps for Chromebook users in favor of web versions 

Since 2017, Microsoft has offered its Office suite to Chromebook users via the Google Play store, but that is set to come to an end in a few short weeks. As of Sept. 18, Microsoft is discontinuing support for Office, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook, on Chromebook. Microsoft is not, however, abandoning […] Continue reading Microsoft is discontinuing its Office apps for Chromebook users in favor of web versions 

Tripwire Patch Priority Index for July 2021

Tripwire’s July 2021 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities from VMware, Adobe, Oracle, and Microsoft. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft Print Spooler (CVE-2021-34527, CVE-2021-1675) and… Continue reading Tripwire Patch Priority Index for July 2021

Microsoft updates Teams with new presentation features

It’s (virtual) Microsoft Ignite this week, Microsoft’s annual IT-centric conference and its largest, with more than 26,000 people attending the last in-person event in 2019. Given its focus, it’s no surprise that Microsoft Teams is taking center stage in the announcements this year. Teams, after all, is now core to Microsoft’s productivity suite. Today’s announcements […] Continue reading Microsoft updates Teams with new presentation features