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In something of a turnaround, Windows Defender is now matching and outperforming many free and commercial antivirus solutions.
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Microsoft is rebranding Windows Defender ATP as Microsoft Defender ATP, bringing the service to the Mac.
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This month sees Microsoft release Windows Server IoT 2019, an official Timeline extension for Google Chrome, Windows Defender ATP comes to Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, and support for Linux files in File Explorer in Windows 10 19H1.
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Meet Jimmy. Jimmy is an employee in your company. He Does Things With Computers (official title). Last Wednesday, as Jimmy got out of his car after parking in the company-owned parking lot, he saw something on the ground. That something is a 512GB USB … Continue reading Windows Defender ATP has protections for USB and removable devices
Across services in Microsoft Threat Protection, the correlation of security signals enhances the comprehensive and integrated security for identities, endpoints, user data, cloud apps, and infrastructure. Our industry-leading visibility into the entire… Continue reading Tackling phishing with signal-sharing and machine learning
Microsoft updates Windows Defender ATP to detect and auto remediate memory-based attacks.
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Predictive technologies are already effective at detecting and blocking malware at first sight. A new malware prediction competition on Kaggle will challenge the data science community to push these technologies even furtherto stop malware before it is… Continue reading Microsoft AI competition explores the next evolution of predictive technologies in security
Reuters recently reported a hacking campaign focused on a wide range of targets across the globe. In the days leading to the Reuters publication, Microsoft researchers were closely tracking the same campaign. Our sensors revealed that the campaign prim… Continue reading Analysis of cyberattack on U.S. think tanks, non-profits, public sector by unidentified attackers
Our analysis of a targeted attack that used a language-specific word processor shows why its important to understand and protect against small-scale and localized attacks as well as broad-scale malware campaigns. The attack exploited a vulnerability in… Continue reading Attack uses malicious InPage document and outdated VLC media player to give attackers backdoor access to targets
Windows Defender Antivirus has hit a new milestone: the built-in antivirus capabilities on Windows can now run within a sandbox. With this new development, Windows Defender Antivirus becomes the first complete antivirus solution to have this capability… Continue reading Windows Defender Antivirus can now run in a sandbox