Microsoft Azure and O.365 Multi-Factor Authentication Outage Microsoft’s cloud environment had an outage this week for the better part of a day, worldwide. The failure stopped users who had turned on two factor authentication from logging in. This is not a “gee, Microsoft is bad” or “gee, two factor authentication is bad” problem. All systems […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Intel will NOT be patching all of its flawed chips After saying, for months, that it would release firmware updates to all chipsets produced in the last 5 years, Intel is now backtracking saying that it won’t produce patches for the Bloomfield line, Clarksfield, Gulftown, Harpertown, Jasper Forest, Penryn, SoFIA 3GR, the Wolfdale line, and the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Both the NSA and CIA have been in the news way too many times recently when organizations like WikiLeaks and others released stolen software that the organizations would rather remain private. In the case of the spy agencies, that software is their internally developed hacking tools. Now it is someone else’s turn. Microsoft has acknowledged […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This week Microsoft patched a zero day bug that affected Microsoft Word users. Microsoft was alerted to the bug by the FireEye security firm several months ago. What we did not know until today is that this bug was being exploited for at least several months. WHO was exploiting it is less clear because hackers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google has been ordered by a magistrate judge in Philadelphia to turn over emails stored abroad. While we don’t have all the details of the case, it appears to be related to a domestic fraud case. The emails in question are stored in a foreign country. The case is a domestic case. Last summer, the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft has been fighting with the U.S. Department of Justice since 2013 when the DoJ tried to get Microsoft to get them to hand over data belonging to a user, stored exclusively in Ireland. This case has gone back and forth in the courts since then. The bottom line issue is whether a U.S. Court […]
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