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Microsoft Edge For Linux Released, How To Install Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge was first released in January to Windows consumers and enterprises, and it was later released to macOS users. Edge is already available on Android and iOS, and now Linux users can finally get a taste of Microsoft’s new browser. Read more…

The New Microsoft Edge Is Now Mandatory In Windows 10 20H2 Today’s release of Windows 10 20H2 is the first release to automatically replace Microsoft Edge Legacy with the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge regardless of any policies you have in place. In January 2020, Microsoft officially released its new Chromium-based Edge browser. Since Read more…

Coinbase Phishing Hijacks Microsoft 365 Accounts Via OAuth App A new phishing campaign uses a Coinbase-themed email to install an Office 365 consent app that gives attackers access to a victim’s email. Over the past year, hackers have increasingly used Microsoft Office 365 OAuth apps, otherwise known as consent apps, as part Read more…

Microsoft Released A New Windows 10 Task Manager For Gamers If your PC games are lagging or running slow, you can free up resources in Windows 10 using a new XBOX Game Bar task manager that overlays on top of running games. Earlier this month, Xbox Insiders began testing a Read more…

Microsoft Issues Out-of-Band Windows Security Updates For RCE Bugs Microsoft has released two out-of-band security updates designed to address remote code execution (RCE) bugs found to affect the Microsoft Windows Codecs Library and Visual Studio Code. The two vulnerabilities are tracked as CVE-2020-17022 and CVE-2020-17023, both of them being rated as important severity and Read more…

Microsoft Releases Azure Defender For IoT In Public Preview It focuses on providing security monitoring for specialized device types, applications, and machine-to-machine (M2M), as well as specialized industrial protocols (Modbus, DNP3, BACnet, etc.) within IoT/OT environments. By adding visibility into misconfigured, unmanaged, and unpatched IoT/OT devices, it makes it a lot Read more…

Office 365 Adds Protection Against Downgrade And MITM Attacks Microsoft is working on adding SMTP MTA Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS) support to Exchange Online to ensure Office 365 customers’ email communication security and integrity. Once MTA-STS is available in Office 365 Exchange Online, emails sent by users via Exchange Online will only Read more…

Microsoft Now Lets You Disable Insecure JScript In Internet Explorer Microsoft says that customers can now disable JScript (JScript.dll) execution in Internet Explorer 11 after installing the Windows October 2020 monthly security updates. JScript is a legacy Microsoft implementation of the ECMAScript language specification in the form of an Active Scripting Read more…

Microsoft Adds Refresh Rate Option To The Windows 10 Settings Microsoft is continuing its push to move all Windows 10 configuration options into their modern Settings feature. In Windows 8, Microsoft introduced a new Settings feature containing many of the operating system’s configuration options. Unfortunately, since its launch, the Settings Read more…