Microsoft’s October 2021 Patch Tuesday included security fixes for 74 vulnerabilities, one of which is a zero-day being used to deliver the MysterySnail RAT to Windows servers. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Nearly 20% of respondents said they would abandon the e-commerce experience altogether if it took more than one minute to check out. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Microsoft has announced that new WSL features will be even easier to get in the future. From a report: The company has posted a preview version of WSL to the Microsoft Store so that Windows 11 users can download and update WSL independently of other Windows updates. Many of Windows’ built-in apps have already moved…

Increased media attention is driving changes in enterprise security strategy — some positive, some negative. …read more Source:: DarkReading

An anonymous reader shares a report: Since 2017, Microsoft has pursued this goal under the name Project Turing, a team that’s tasked with building these large language models and figuring out how they can be used in the company’s vast suite of products. Project Turing might not be a visible name outside the company, its…

Nearly all DDoS attacks in the first half of 2021 were less than 1 Gbps, Nexusguard found. …read more Source:: DarkReading

With 71 new CVEs, there are patches enough for everyone Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday has arrived with fixes for 71 new CVEs, two patch revisions to address bugs from previous months that just won’t die, and three CVEs tied to OpenSSL flaws. That’s in addition to eight Edge-Chromium CVEs dealt with earlier this month.… …read…

The company said it detected the attack on Sunday after dealing with a ransomware incident last month. …read more Source:: ZDNet

A woman allegedly hacked into the systems of a flight training school in Florida to delete and tamper with information related to the school’s airplanes. In some cases, planes that previously had maintenance issues had been “cleared” to fly, according to a police report. The hack, according to the school’s CEO, could have put pilots…

‘So sorry’ says Microsoft Identity VP – but its unhelpful support systems will be hard to fix Interview Konstantin Gizdov, an IT professional, was locked out of his Microsoft account by a bug in the company’s Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), but says support refused to acknowledge the bug or recover his account.… …read more Source:: Register