SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Microsoft recently disclosed actions to disrupt Storm-1152, a prolific cybercriminal network that sold over 750 million fraudulent Microsoft accounts and operated a range of infrastructures enabling wider criminal activity. Follow SecureWorld News for more stories related to cybersecurity.

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

This week NVIDIA announced a multi-year collaboration with Microsoft to build a cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer. With this partnership, Microsoft Azure will be the first public cloud to leverage NVIDIA’s full AI stack – chips, networking, and software.

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TechSpot

MARCH 8, 2024

Microsoft's security team earlier this year detected an attack on its systems that had been ongoing since November 2023. Microsoft initially downplayed the damage to its corporate networks. The culprits were identified as the Russian cyber-spy group known as Midnight Blizzard, Apt29, Nobelium, or Cozy Bear. Read Entire Article

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Tech Republic Big Data

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Microsoft Azure Elastic Storage provides high availability, scale-out capacity, data protection and redundancy for data. The post Microsoft Azure Elastic SAN review: Why should you put your storage network in the cloud? Discover more here. appeared first on TechRepublic.

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GeekWire

MAY 14, 2020

Microsoft said it will acquire Metaswitch Networks , a 39-year-old company that develops software for cloud-based communication networks. The acquisition builds on Microsoft’s existing cloud-related work to help telecom companies with their 5G deployments. It has offices in Los Altos, Calif., and London.

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Microsoft subsidiary Affirmed Networks won a deal to supply private 5G networks, transforming Inventec's industrial robotics and operations. Read More.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 2, 2014

Cloud Computing Google Microsoft Networking' Consortium formed to promote 25 GbE and 50 GbE connectivity between servers and top-of-rack switches Read More.

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GeekWire

APRIL 2, 2024

A sign on Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Wash. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft comes under intense scrutiny and pointed criticism in a 34-page report released Tuesday by the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) , a group created by the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security in 2021 to review major cybersecurity incidents.

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Tech Republic Cloud

MARCH 2, 2023

AT&T edge service in Detroit and Dell cloud network deployment go hand-in-hand with Microsoft’s telecom cloud. The post Microsoft announces several Azure Operator Nexus partner rollouts appeared first on TechRepublic.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Microsoft's most recent Patch Tuesday release may have resolved the final remains of the PrintNightmare vulnerabilities, but in doing so, may have also impacted users' ability to access network printer resources.

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GeekWire

MARCH 22, 2021

After 18 years, Microsoft is retiring the Xbox Live brand. Members of the Xbox Insider program, an opt-in service that lets customers get early access to new Xbox features, reported that their Xbox’ UI had begun to replace references to Live with “the Xbox network.” (Xbox Live Image).

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Tech Republic Cloud

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Initially available to a limited set of customers, the Network Edge Compute technology "weaves Microsoft Azure cloud services into AT&T network edge locations closer to customers," Microsoft says.

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TM Forum

JULY 19, 2022

The fast-shifting private mobile network market has received fresh injections of competition with Google’s announcement it will start selling private networks directly to enterprises and the Indian government’s decision to make 5G spectrum. private wireless networking solution which it will sell directly to enterprises.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Microsoft has offered a temporary fix to Windows users for Wi-Fi related issues after a Windows 11 update that compromised wireless connections on public, education, and enterprise networks. To read this article in full, please click here

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Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 18, 2024

The Androxgh0st malware botnet is used for victim identification and exploitation in targeted networks, as well as credentials collection. Read the FBI/CISA's tips for protecting against this malware threat.

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TM Forum

JUNE 30, 2021

AT&T is moving its 5G core network operations into. Microsoft's public cloud in a deal. that involves the software company acquiring AT&T’s Network Cloud platform technology. Microsoft revealed its ambitions in telecom network services last year when it. acquired Metaswitch Networks.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Ali Spain, the Microsoft Alumni Network’s outgoing executive director, opens the Connect 2023 conference in Redmond on Thursday morning. Microsoft will turn 50 in less than two years, and attendees spanned many of the company’s decades. T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert at the Microsoft Alumni Network conference.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, left, and Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison on a live stream from Redmond, announcing plans to expand their partnership with a new service called Oracle Database@Azure. where Microsoft is based, which speaks in part to fierce nature of the longtime rivalry between the companies.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Microsoft has recently brought attention to a highly-sophisticated and targeted phishing campaign conducted by a notorious threat actor group known as Storm-0324. This group has proven to be relentless in its pursuit of infiltrating corporate networks and has now set its sights on exploiting vulnerabilities within Microsoft Teams.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 22, 2024

Microsoft disclosed that it recently fell victim to a cyberattack by Nobelium, the Russian state-sponsored hacking group infamously responsible for the 2020 SolarWinds supply chain attack. The breach, detected on January 12th, allowed the hackers to access email accounts belonging to members of Microsoft's senior leadership team.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Microsoft will invest €3.2 Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President of Microsoft, said the aim is to enable the German economy to benefit from AI in order to continue to expand its leading global position in terms of competitiveness. The company also wants to train more than 1.2 million people in digital skills.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Extreme Networks has added network fabric capabilities to its flagship SD-WAN platform to enable customers to link and manage distributed resources more securely. Additional enhancements to the ExtremeCloud SD-WAN platform include improved automated workflows and direct connectivity to cloud systems such as Microsoft Azure and AWS.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 20, 2023

Enterprise networks are undergoing a profound transformation. Traditional enterprise wide area networks, or WANs were designed primarily to connect remote branch offices directly to the data center. For example, SD-WAN technology makes it possible for an enterprise employee to successfully connect to Microsoft 365 from home.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 9, 2024

A prototype battery developed by Microsoft and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory uses a combination of lithium and sodium to reduce the overall lithium content. The AI tools reduced the number of candidates from 32 million to 23, of which 18 were new and previously unknown, Microsoft and PNNL say.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

Microsoft is opening another route for extending the reach of its Copilot offerings in the enterprise through an expanded partnership with global professional services company Cognizant. Having big names like Microsoft and Cognizant involved in implementing generative AI could assuage fears about the risks surrounding its use.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 30, 2024

Satya Nadella says Microsoft has “moved from talking about AI to applying AI at scale.” ” (File Photo) Microsoft’s revenue from its Azure cloud platform and related services rose 30% in the quarter ended Dec. Other notable segment and product results: Microsoft Cloud revenue was $33.7 billion, up 24%.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 9, 2023

Microsoft has acquired Fungible , a 6-year-old startup that helps companies with data center storage and networking needs. The company was founded by former Apple engineering leader Bertrand Serlet and CEO Pradeep Sindhu , who co-founded Juniper Networks. (Fungible Photo). Earlier reports pegged the deal at $190 million.

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Tech Republic Data Center

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Microsoft is making it easier to switch to secure modern options. It’s time to stop relying on the insecure authentication protocol built into Windows.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

JULY 19, 2022

Microsoft has unveiled a workplace-focused take on Instagram and Facebook Stories posts, adding a new way to share video and photo updates within a revamped Yammer Communities app. “We We hear from customers that they want more frictionless ways to share across an organization,” said Dan Holme, product lead for Viva Engage at Microsoft.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This year’s Microsoft Ignite developer conference might as well be called AIgnite, with over half of the almost 600 sessions featuring artificial intelligence in some shape or form. Here’s some of the top AI news CIOs will want to take away from Microsoft Ignite 2023. The new Copilot will be generally available from Dec.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 10, 2021

Microsoft announced today that it has acquired Peer5 , a Bay Area-based startup that helps companies such as Turner and Deutsche Telekom with large-scale video streaming quality. Founded in 2012, Peer5’s last funding was a $2.5 million seed round raised in 2017.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 31, 2024

Nadella recently spoke to journalist and NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt about several topics, including AI, the 2024 election, and Microsoft's recent admission that Russian group Cozy Bear accessed its corporate network for a month last year. Read Entire Article

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Information Week

AUGUST 14, 2023

From fat-finger errors to fishing boats, here are the leading reasons cloud outages at AWS, Microsoft, and others are a growing network resilience challenge.

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GeekWire

MAY 24, 2023

Microsoft said detecting and mitigating the Volt Typhoon attack could be challenging. GeekWire File Photo) Microsoft warned on Wednesday that it has uncovered “stealthy and targeted malicious activity” by a state-sponsored actor in China aimed at disrupting “critical infrastructure organizations” in the United States.

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Network World

APRIL 14, 2022

Key US government security organizations are warning that industrial control system (ICS)/supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)-based networks are being threatened by bad actors armed with custom software tools. Dragos has posted a paper about part of the threat. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

JULY 13, 2023

Microsoft is jumping into the competitive Secure Service Edge ( SSE ) arena with a software package aimed at protecting its Windows and Azure customers as well as other cloud-based enterprise resources. To read this article in full, please click here

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 21, 2021

Microsoft Defender Application Guard protects your networks and data from malicious applications running in your web browser, but you must install and activate it first.

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