A global outage affecting Microsoft products including email service Outlook and video game Minecraft has been resolved, the technology giant said in an update, external.
The firm said preliminary investigations show the outage was caused by a cyber-attack and a failure to properly defend against it. Earlier, the company issued an apology for the incident, which lasted almost 10 hours and caused thousands of users to report issues with Microsoft services.
Read more…
Source: BBC News
Related:
- ‘Crazy bad’ bug in Microsoft’s Windows malware scanner can be used to install malware
May 9, 2017
Miscreants can turn the tables on Microsoft and use its own antivirus engine against Windows users – by abusing it to install malware on vulnerable machines. A particularly nasty security flaw exists in Redmond’s anti-malware software, which is packaged and marketed in various forms: Windows Defender, Windows Intune Endpoint Protection, Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft System Center ...
- Microsoft says: Lock down your software supply chain before the malware scum get in
May 5, 2017
Microsoft’s security team is urging developers to shore up their software update systems – after catching miscreants hijacking an editing application’s download channels to inject malware into victims’ PCs. In a security advisory, Redmond’s infosec gurus describe Operation WilySupply: their mission to find, isolate and destroy an unusual and highly targeted form of malicious code that ...
- ShadowBrokers’ Windows Zero-Days Already Patched
April 17, 2017
Hours after what was thought to be a damaging release of NSA hacking tools for Windows systems, Microsoft quelled some anxiety with a late-night statement on Friday that most of the vulnerabilities disclosed by the ShadowBrokers had already been patched. The biggest surprise was that the most recent updates came in March in a bulletin, MS17-010, ...
- Dridex Campaigns Hitting Millions of Recipients Using Unpatched Microsoft Zero-Day
April 10, 2017
This weekend saw multiple reports of a new zero-day vulnerability that affected all versions of Microsoft Word. Today, Proofpoint researchers observed the document exploit being used in a large email campaign distributing the Dridex banking Trojan. This campaign was sent to millions of recipients across numerous organizations primarily in Australia. This represents a significant level of ...
- Credit card details and passwords of MILLIONS of users have been leaked online by Microsoft’s Docs.com
March 28, 2017
Credit card details, passwords and social security numbers are just some of the highly sensitive documents leaked by an online sharing site. Computer security researchers have revealed that Microsoft’s Docs.com is automatically sharing data – which users believed they were distributing privately among colleagues – with the public. Anyone using the site’s search engine can access this ...