Microsoft Confirms Server Misconfiguration Led to 65,000+ Companies' Data Leak

Tue, 01 Nov 2022 2:26:00
1 minute, 21 seconds
Dan

Microsoft this week confirmed that it inadvertently exposed information related to thousands of #customers following a security lapse that left an endpoint publicly accessible over the internet sans any authentication.

"This misconfiguration resulted in the potential for unauthenticated access to...

Nextcloud in the Wall Street Journal: Microsoft and cookies

Wed, 17 Aug 2022 21:04:00
0 minutes, 58 seconds
Dan

Nextcloud was covered in a Wall Street Journal article, “Microsoft Goes on Offensive in Europe to Combat Cloud Concerns.” It covers a range of challenges Microsoft is facing, and how it employs its army of lawyers and lobbyist to push back.

As the article explains, Nextcloud CEO and founder Fran...

Microsoft Office 365 banned in German schools over data privacy

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 19:23:00
0 minutes, 49 seconds
Dan

Declaring that Windows 10 and Microsoft Office 365 are not compliant with EU General Data Protection Regulation, schools in Germany have banned its for violating privacy of students and teachers

In a first such case globally, schools in Germany have banned the use of Microsoft Office 365, after a...

EU cloud providers subject to lock-in with Microsoft due to new strategy

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 19:05:00
1 minute, 14 seconds
Dan

Fair competition is essential to a healthy business ecosystem, yet tech giants seem to believe they can work around it using their market dominance and various anti-competitive activities.

3 weeks ago, Microsoft announced a new strategy shift with the aim to comply with its steady flow of legal co...

Microsoft and the oddities of accepting emails

Sat, 15 Jan 2022 20:48:00
2 minutes, 21 seconds
Dan

Microsoft and the oddities of accepting emails

Microsoft has had some problems with its Exchange services this year - https://blog.mxtoolbox.com/2022/01/. Maybe it has nothing to do with the problem of one of our customers, but Microsoft has very strange methods when it comes to accepting emails...