New features such as the Antimalware Scan Interface, Virtualization-Based Security and threat analytics are making Windows much more difficult to exploit, but hackers and researchers demonstrate it's ...

Just about every software vendor or Web service collects information about its users. Some do it with more subtlety than others, but the fact is that there's hardly an application or Web site that ...

While Windows IT professionals deal with security on a daily basis, very few understand the under-the-hood protocol, Kerberos. Kerberos is a security protocol in Windows introduced in Windows 2000 to ...

Active Directory health assessment is a challenge, especially for small and midsize companies that can't afford a full-time Active Directory admin or costly third-party tools. The first indication ...

Microsoft has announced a new AI-powered feature called "computer use" for its Copilot Studio platform that allows agents to directly interact with Web sites and desktop applications using simulated ...

AvePoint on Tuesday announced Opus, its new artificial intelligence (Al)-based "information lifecycle management" solution, which works with Microsoft Office 365 and other services. Opus, in ...

• Brien encountered a permissions problem with Hyper-V virtual hard disks when moving them between virtual machines. The issue arose when attempting to attach a previously existing virtual hard disk ...

A vulnerability in Microsoft’s multifactor authentication (MFA) system has been uncovered by cybersecurity firm Oasis Security, allowing attackers to bypass security measures and access sensitive data ...

After speaking at the European Fabric Community Conference last month, I followed it up with the Dataminds Connect event in Mechelen, Belgium, in early October. As a longtime conference speaker, I ...

Good: No-code tools like Microsoft Power Platform are fueling a surge in citizen-built apps. Bad: Most of those apps are flying under the radar of traditional security. Featuring Amichai Shulman, ...

Quantum computing presents both a potential breakthrough and a cryptographic threat -- one that Microsoft is tackling through what it calls "progress towards next‑generation cryptography." In a post ...

A new study co-authored by Microsoft found that those with high confidence in the ability of generative AI also exhibit lower critical thinking skills. The report (PDF), titled "The Impact of ...